Sciences

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  Women in math

  March 23, 2012 Michael Graca
  A $12,000 award from the NSA will help fund the Career Mentoring Workshop, which is scheduled to take place at the end of June. The three-day gathering prepares women who are Ph.D. candidates in math for their job search and creates a network of mentors and peers. More »
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  Alum’s career takes flight at avian center

  March 23, 2012 Sandy Coleman
  Ben Montgomery ’04 has found both purpose and excitement at the Raptor Trust, one of the largest and most respected wild-bird rehabilitation and conservation centers in the United States. More »

• Building excitement

  December 4, 2011 Michael Graca
  Thanks to the support of alumnae/i, parents and friends, the college opened the Mars Center for Science and Technology. More »

• DNA ribbon cutting

  December 4, 2011 Michael Graca
  Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are standard practice for new buildings. Because the Mars Center for Science and Technology is anything but ordinary, it deserved something a bit more special. The solution: a 60-foot-long strand of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). More »
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  From molecules to minds

  December 3, 2011 Hannah Benoit
  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. More »
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  Jason Reiss, psychology

  December 3, 2011 Hannah Benoit
  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. More »
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  Rolf Nelson, psychology

  December 3, 2011 Hannah Benoit
  Nelson’s studies the way in which visual scenes are organized into something meaningful via processes like figure-ground organization and Gestalt grouping. More »
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  Robert Morris, biology

  December 3, 2011 Hannah Benoit
  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. More »
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  Kathleen Morgan, psychology

  December 3, 2011 Hannah Benoit
  Morgan investigates the stress of animals in captive environments and the ways in which humans can try to reduce it. More »
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  Seaworthy

  September 1, 2011 Sandy Coleman
  Sherry Petry Reed '82, a biology major, traces her career and accomplishments right back to a Belize trip and her journey through Wheaton. More »