The ocean is perhaps the planet’s last great frontier. For one student, a research trip to better understand a shipwreck near Bermuda provided an opportunity for exploration and adventure. by Marlene Aydlette ’12 The story of this particular mystery ship lost at sea is anything but established: Maybe it was a pirate ship gunned down
History professor Tammy Ingram finds an unlikely research topic right below our feet.
For one pioneering alum, being on top of the world meant finding a life and career at the bottom – a crossroads for scientists, vagabonds and voyagers studying and exploring Antarctica. by Mark Walsh ’04 Alphabetical discrimination, also called Alphabetism, is a form of prejudice relatively new to mainstream study. Sociologists have found that people
If you're a Cougars fan, you know Bart Benton - a four-year walk-on.
Photograph by Jason Baxley Finally these comforts, these heavy oaks and husks of echoes. The pecan shell in my palm is having trouble deciding itself as the sun slides idle, pushing walkers and buggies down the sloping street. When we go, we get somewhere south in hours. We choose this tradition. We are
Harry Freeman was more than a biology professor. He was an inspiration.
Sarah Dano ’08 holds her breath during a shootout scene on CBS’s Blue Bloods. It’s not because she’s worried that Tom Selleck’s character will be shot: She’s just hoping his jacket is zipped throughout the entire scene. If she bites her lip when a tragedy unfolds on Lifetime’s Army Wives, it’s just because Catherine Bell
When she’s not touring the world with crooner Michael Bolton, trumpeter Cameron Harder Handel ’07 still can’t stop the music. The multitalented artist’s résumé includes play dates with Will Hoge, Seal, Crowfield and Sol Driven Train as well as a runner-up honor in Beyoncé’s touring band. But the road to such international success has been
Lindsay Shay Nixon '04 found that her kitchen made the perfect workplace.
Randy Bitting ’03 had never owned a computer. He had never stepped foot in the College’s Career Center. And he’d never had a successful interview. Here’s the irony: Three months after he graduated that May, he’d launched a technology for college career centers to help students practice their interviewing skills. InterviewStream – an online mock-interviewing
