藏精阁

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

  • Digistar Users Group members from around the world are now gathered at 藏精阁鈥檚 Ho Tung Visualization Lab for their 26th annual conference. Hamilton, N.Y., joins sites in Germany, Japan, Canada, India, and the Netherlands as a conference host for users of the Digistar projection system, the technological heart of 藏精阁鈥檚 unique visualization lab.
    July 29, 2013
  • Summer certainly means pool parties, lazy afternoons, and hot dogs on the grill. At 藏精阁, summer also means time for some serious research. A sampling of about 150 students conducting summer research on campus presented their findings at the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center last week. The research on display spanned a wide range of [鈥
    July 24, 2013
  • 藏精阁 geology professor Connie Soja has led field expeditions to Alaska鈥檚 North Pacific coast, the Australian outback, and Mongolia鈥檚 Gobi Desert that have yielded new insights into novel ecologic relationships in ancient reefs and how past environmental transformations help predict global change in reef communities today. In recognition of her work, Soja, a member of [鈥
    July 16, 2013
  • 藏精阁 students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Rohan Mehta 鈥14, an intern at Facebook. I鈥檓 a rising senior at 藏精阁, and this summer I鈥檓 working as a software engineering intern at Facebook at their headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. [鈥
    July 15, 2013
  • For an article titled 鈥淭he Evolution of Hand Gestures: Why Do Some Die Out and Others Endure?鈥, The Atlantic magazine contacted Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology, for his expertise on hand gestures. The article examined two kinds of hand gestures. The first are 鈥渃o-speech gestures鈥, unconscious ways we move our hands as we talk. Professor [鈥
    June 10, 2013
  • Two interdisciplinary science research projects featuring collaborations among diverse faculty from 藏精阁 and around the world will move forward with grants from the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at 藏精阁. The projects support the core mission of the institute, which aims to foster the creation of new knowledge that is obtainable only through the development of sustained interdisciplinary [鈥
    May 24, 2013
  • Watch 藏精阁 students Sebastian Sagramoso Haley 鈥15, Fareeza Islam 鈥14, Hugo Fausto Torres-Fetsco 鈥15, Sara DiMassimo 鈥14, and Saliha Moore 鈥14, put up drywall, spackle, paint, sand, and decorate an old barn, transforming it into a center of  discovery at a local day-care center in this short video documentary by Torres-Fetsco. The students, as part [鈥
    May 9, 2013
  •   (Editor鈥檚 note: This article was written by Alicia Klepeis) Although the Ganges River is considered sacred and purifying to Hindus, pollution and damming have contaminated those beliefs, according to initial findings by Srikar Gullapalli 鈥13 and Brian Lemanski 鈥14. Previous scholarship has indicated that Hindus believe the river鈥檚 sanctity could not be fouled by [鈥
    March 28, 2013