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Brianna Rick ’14: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Show Evolving Hazards In A Warming World
9 October 2023In August 2023, residents of Juneau, Alaska, watched as the Mendenhall River swelled to historic levels in a matter of hours. The rushing water undercut the riverbank and swallowed whole…
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Jennifer Macalady ’91 Searches For Life Where It Shouldn’t Exist
26 September 2023National Geographic via Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of Penn State scientists is working to solve one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries: how life originated…
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Laura Veirs ’97 Releases New Album: “Phone Orphans”
18 September 2023Music-News.com Laura Veirs today announces her thirteenth solo album Phone Orphans due out 3rd November via her own Raven Marching Band Records. The esteemed Portland, OR-based artist sorted through over…
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Geoffrey Collins ’94 Helps Students Integrate Scientific Observations In The Field
12 September 2023Wheaton College Blog Can you talk about why you chose this particular faculty-led trip, managed by Dr. Geoffrey Collins, Professor of Geology from the Physics and Astronomy Department, and Dr. Matthew Evans,…
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The New York Times On a Friday afternoon in July, 87 teenagers with name tags swinging around their necks converged in the dining hall at Nazareth University in Rochester, N.Y.…
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Kelly Hereid ’07 and “Hig” Higman ’99 Exemplify Interesting Career Paths You Might Not Think Of Yourself
1 August 2023EOS (Science News by AGU) What does a geoscientist do? Yes, Earth and space scientists work at lab benches, but they also design experimental plots,explore exoplanets and ocean depths, and…
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Wisconsin Academy Of Sciences On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at Piece of Mined in Mayville, WI, Color in the Outdoors’ Christopher Kilgour and Geologist Rudy Molinek took us on a…
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NPR There is a hyper-alert, naturalistic sensuality to the 12th album by Portland songwriter Laura Veirs. A new lover has “pomegranate fingertips”; she’s “a burning leaf” stirred by the latent light…
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Isaac Larsen ’01 Researches Extending US Breadbasket Fertility For Centuries: Saving Our Soil
25 May 2023Mirage.News New research from UMass Amherst shows that the rapid and unsustainable rate of topsoil erosion can be drastically reduced with no-till agricultural methods already in practice. The Midwestern United…
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County Of Sonoma Thanks to significant rainfall over the past several months, the North Bay region has rebounded well from the drought that ravaged Marin and Sonoma county agricultural businesses…