Landsat View

2005 Issue 2June 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Landsat View

Some old aerial photos, a handmade map, a bright idea?that and a lot of hard work may provide a whole new way to evaluate and influence the rapid growth of Connecticut’s Middlesex County. The project began when Phillip Resor, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, brought …

2005 Issue 2June 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Star Treatment

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY EDWARD MORAN was toying with the idea of taking a webcam with him to the Kitt Peak National Observatory so sophomores in his Introduction to Astronomical Techniques class could get a clos…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Rocking Out to the Beat of Hope

In November the popular online iTunes Music Store offered a benefit album of original songs performed by internationally known artists. The album quickly became a best seller, generating $100,000 in less than a month. Al…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 2, 2014

The Fault of Prophecy

THE SOLUTION TO PERHAPS THE GREATEST MYSTERY of ancient Greece depended on a chance meeting near the remains of a Roman villa in Portugal in 1995. True, things got clearer as an unsuspecting woman became giddy in a tool…

2004 Issue 1January 20, 2004May 2, 2014

Uproar Over Act of Conscience

EVEN AFTER ALL THE REHEARSAL AND PREPARATION, Ari Silver-Isenstadt '90 still didn't know what he would actually do that morning in the operating room when he faced the ethical dilemma he'd been dreading. Certainly, he n…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003May 7, 2014

A Supercomputing Wulf in PC Clothing

It has become a ritual at businesses and colleges across the world: get rid of computers that have become obsolete in just two or three years—and replace them with new machines. But would the purging be done so …

2003 Issue 3May 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Star Power

When Roger Cohen ’03 first looked at the images, he thought there must be some mistake. The dates had to be wrong, or perhaps the images had been mislabeled. But after rechecking the data, the realization of what he was …

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Cool Scoop on a Hot Student Enterpreneuer

When considering a new business opportunity, most entrepreneurs think about location, client base, access to supplies, demographics, and marketing. But Adam Lachman ’03 was thinking only about the taste of ice cream. &n…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Out Of This World

MARTHA GILMORE IS GOING TO MARS. Again. In fact, this time she's not only responsible for helping pick a landing site, she'll be doing some of the driving on the red planet, too. Gilmore, an assistant professor of earth…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Straight Talk About Vodou

It’s difficult to decide which is more intriguing: that Assistant Professor of Religion Elizabeth McAlister keeps a couple of zombies in her office, or the idea that she might not have the zombies (or the office at Wesle…