Home News Academics Page 25 Category: Academics Real-World Health Experiences Macalester’s metro location guarantees a wealth of options in public health internships and research experiences. Seeing Mental Illness Criminal Myths A popular sociology class examines our country’s incarceration culture. Can Robots Be Human? Meet Marvin and Armstrong, two of the robots that roam Olin-Rice Science Center, and two of their human operators. Filmmaking Competition Mighty Microscope The new atomic force microscope in Olin-Rice Science Center provides researchers with amazing images at near-atomic scale. Teaching Robots In his summer research, Evan Weiler ’16 trained robots to navigate around a building and through the air. Death and Dying Learning to face life’s end is a key part of this unique anthropology course. Mac Students at ABRCMS With support of the Macalester-HHMI Science Education Award, four students recently attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, two as presenters. News of 2014 Macalester Explores Some of the Year’s Top Stories Tiny Australian Arachnids Collecting specimens in Australia and identifying them in the lab taught Michelle Coblens a lot about the power of original research. HHMI Young Researchers From pain to tiny arachnids, Nicole Mathews applied concepts from her science courses as she pursued answers to real-world questions in the lab. Health Policy Pursuits Jyothi Dhanwada researches pain and has interned on a U.S. Senate committee in Washington to learn firsthand about the intersection of science and health policy. Rivers of Electricity A laptop that partially charges itself? It could happen. Noah Lupu-Gladstein explored cutting-edge thermoelectrics research in Professor James Heyman’s physics lab. Clues from Antarctica As part of a Keck Consortium research project, Hali Englert studied rocks from Antarctica for what they can tell us about climate change. Reef Diving in Belize Ilian DeCorte made daily scuba dives in Belize to learn why otherwise endangered coral were thriving there. A Database of Brains Bioinformatics at Harvard–MIT’s Health Sciences and Technology Program allowed Issa Ali to combine his research interests in computer science, biology and chemistry. Rocks Tell the Story In Glacier National Park, Emily Diener and Eric Stephens took core samples that illuminate the geological history of the landscape. Geology in Glacier Park At Glacier National Park, Emily Diener used core samples from lakes to investigate their geological history. Trees and Climate Change Trees store carbon, which helps mitigate climate change. Eli Liebman investigated this process in northern Michigan. Interrupting Viruses In Marcos Ortega’s lab, Djoser Ramsey investigated how to interrupt the reproduction of viruses, such as one that causes lymphoma. Prev 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 … 46 Next