by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2022
By Eva, Winter 2022. From the principal investigator exploring the sprawling neural circuits that govern our everyday lives to the undergraduate students attending their first neurophysiology lecture, neuroscientists at every level of experience are met with the...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2022
By Tania, Winter 2022. When walking into the first lecture of a new quarter, a student does not typically expect to be greeted with the professor’s biggest fear listed at the top of the syllabus. Yet students in Organic Chemistry this quarter got more than they...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | fall 2021, spectrum
By Kate Ferrera, Fall 2021. In the 1980s, Jim Tennant, a factory worker in West Virginia, sold land to the DuPont chemical manufacturing company for use as a non-hazardous waste landfill.[1] This was standard practice and would have been completely unremarkable except...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | fall 2021, spectrum
By Nikhil Kumar, Fall 2021. Chances are, whether on the internet or in real life, you’ve heard the words “intermittent fasting” or “IF diet” before. In my own life, I see those fitness buzzwords everywhere. Whether it’s my father who chooses not to eat anything during...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | fall 2021, spectrum
By Jason Wu, Fall 2021. On October 5th, 2021, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration—a scientific imaging group on the hunt for the elusive dark energy—officially concluded its six-year mission. Despite sounding like a string of stereotypical astronomical jargon,...
