Rinita Dalan, Anthropology and Earth Science, and Geoarchaeology major Rebecca Wallace traveled to the Poverty Point State Historic Site in Louisiana over Spring Break to conduct investigations into a new mound discovered at the site. The Poverty Point site, composed of a semicircular arrangement of six earthen ridges and mounds over 3,000 years in age, is the 2014 U.S. nomination […]
Laura Herzog, a sophomore Physics and Mathematics double major, was offered and has accepted a position as a summer researcher at the University of Wyoming’s Department of Astronomy. She will be involved in a research project involving the use of the University’s 2.3 meter and 0.6 meter telescopes in imaging and analysis of the environment around other galaxies. www.uwyo.edu/physics/reu-info
Student to present on water resource sharing Sophomore Jordan Pinneke is the epitome of the phrase, “so much to do, so little time.” Whether it is with her secretarial position for the Sustainable Campus Initiative Committee, her job as an administrative assistant at the Office of Campus Sustainability, working as an RA on campus, or as a desk attendant at […]
Math major, Sam Erickson, was accepted to and will be participating in the Valparaiso Experience in Research by Undergraduate Mathematicians. He will be doing research on pattern avoidance in double lists. www.valpo.edu/mcs/verum
Jesse Leyk, economics major, presented a paper on the impact of NAFTA on imports of transportation equipment. Leyk’s presentation was part of the undergraduate research sessions (IPE sessions) of the Eastern Economics Association held in Boston. Over 40 students from all over the nation presented. Leyk’s main finding is that NAFTA appears to have caused increased imports from Canada at […]