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Team builds Lego replica of particle detector
U. WASHINGTON: Physicists used the Atlas particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider to discover an important subatomic particle. Students on campus have built their own version of Atlas, but...
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Fighting online ‘trolls’ takes freshman to Korea
PENN STATE: The highlight of Jules Dupont’s first year of college was traveling to Seoul, South Korea, to present his research on social media deviance. Dupont, who is from Paoli, Pennsylvania, has...
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What’s the new ‘contemplative studies’ major?
BROWN: Students have a new option for their college major: contemplative studies. Here are six questions about the concentration and their answers, courtesy of Harold Roth, professor of religious...
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Volunteers get off campus to teach kids Spanish
PENN: Ariel Koren, a senior this fall in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, takes Spanish language tutors and cultural ambassadors to local elementary schools. Koren fell in love...
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Undergrads spend summer living ‘the life of research’
BRANDEIS: “I really feel like I am treated like a graduate student,” says rising senior Abby Knecht. “As an undergrad, I am treated with respect, and I am free to work on my own experiments.” Knecht...
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I went to South Africa to meet ‘exotic’ animals
PENN STATE: Morgan Brown took a risk last August when she decided to be one of the first students to travel to South Africa through a newly developed immersion program. As a junior veterinary and...
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Handmade aircraft compete in ‘search-and-rescue’
STANFORD: Standing at the edge of an isolated field, Peter Blake dropped a few bits of dried grass to check the wind before giving the signal to launch the small, computer-controlled aircraft that he...
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Robot subs sink or swim in this competition
CALTECH: Bruce gets in the pool every Sunday. He’s not a swimmer, though. Bruce is the robotic submarine that a team of students has crafted and optimized for the 17th Annual International RoboSub...
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Anima: ‘I dug into Bermuda’s past’
U. ROCHESTER: When Anima Ghimire’s history advisor recruited students for an archaeological dig in Bermuda, Ghimire instantly responded, “I’m on board!” During the summer of 2013, Ghirmire, a double...
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Tanner: I never got over my ‘dinosaur phase’
PENN: Lots of kids go through a “dinosaur phrase,” but Tanner Frank says he “never grew out of it. This summer, Frank, now a college sophomore, spent time pursuing his childhood passion on dinosaur...
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