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While Shannon Duffy ’21 listened to a French tour guide describe the atrocities that took place at a site in the southern town of Collioure, she felt an overwhelming sense of “confliction.” The cheerful atmosphere of the region surrounding her starkly contrasted with its tragic, yet rarely discussed, history. An undeclared environmental biology major from […]

With a little help from NNSA, Professor Karen Harpp has successfully brought the past to life for her undergraduate class studying The Advent of the Atomic Bomb.

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, set in motion a series of tsunamis that bulldozed areas of southeast Asia and killed more than 220,000 people in 12 countries. Eight years later, �ؾ��� professors on a faculty development trip to India stopped in the Delhi Craft Museum, where a 7-foot–tall scroll depicting the […]

Last week, Associate Professor of Geology and Peace and Conflict Studies Karen Harpp added a 13th line to her list of teaching accolades when she received the 2015 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement. “I don’t think there’s anyone in any room who has the energy that Karen Harpp has or the passion […]

Alumni young and old will once again be interacting with each other and with students through an online version of the popular Advent of the Atomic Bomb course taught by Associate Professor of Geology Karen Harpp.

In a Huffington Post story titled “10 Uses of Drones in Higher Education,” marketer Vala Afshar highlights �ؾ���’s innovative use of a drone to capture the activity and spirit of the 2013 move-in day, when first-year students arrive on campus. Here’s the video from that day, captured by a GoPro camera attached to a […]

Professors researching a wide array of subjects — from privacy software to fieldwork in the Galapagos — recently received National Science Foundation grant awards totaling $1,328,055.

From building a bomb to acting as historical figures involved in the Manhattan Project through a “Twitter play,” students in the Advent of the Atomic Bomb class have been embracing science and technology — and connecting with alumni along the way.