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News about Wheaton students, faculty and alumnae/i in the sciences.
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First Light: Wheaton telescopes capture their first images
Telescopes within computer-controlled domes atop the Mars Center are capturing their first images of space.. and they're fascinating.
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Bresnahan is a finalist in YouTube's Space Lab contest
Please vote for Wheaton's Emerald Bresnahan '15. If she wins, her fascinating experiment will be performed by astronauts and may shed light on how the universe was formed. -
Armstrong back on campus after a semester abroad
Armstrong's Fulbright experience in India will impact his teaching.
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An open invitation
The Mars Center's public spaces are an open invitation to connect. -
Antetomaso '12 wins Grace Hopper 2011 Award
Congratulations are in order! Stephanie Antetomaso's poster took First Place in the undergraduate category from the National Conference for Women in Computing.
From the Quarterly
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From molecules to minds
It weighs three pounds, produces 70,000 thoughts a day, and contains 100 billion neurons. Amassing facts about the human brain is easy. Understanding how it works is not. -
Jason Reiss, psychology
Reiss’s work focuses on how we experience the world through visual perception. A cognitive neuroscientist, he uses high-density electroencephalography (EEG) to measure electrical activities in the brain. -
Rolf Nelson, psychology
Nelson’s studies the way in which visual scenes are organized into something meaningful via processes like figure-ground organization and Gestalt grouping. -
Robert Morris, biology
Morris, a neurobiologist, studies the process by which cilia form. Cilia are long appendages of cells that beat like paddles to move fluid over a cell or stand straight like antennae.
