At the annual research symposium of the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium, hosted by Colgate on Oct. 21, students from eight liberal arts universities gathered to present their summer research findings.
By learning experimentally rather than vicariously, students leave Colgate with all of the knowledge they need to perform high-level scientific experiments on their own.
In his lab, neuroscience professor Wan-Chun Liu modifies gene expression in songbirds鈥 basal ganglia, a region of the brain that plays a vital role in early language learning. The work could further understanding of human communication disorders like autism or Huntington鈥檚 disease. Liu鈥檚 affection for these tiny twittering birds has driven a varied academic career, [鈥
Aubreya Adams, 蜜桃传媒 assistant professor of geology, is one of 10 principal investigators from nine universities teaming up to deploy the single largest collection of seismometers ever assembled along the Alaskan Peninsula. Relying on $4.5 million in National Science Foundation grant funding and a fleet of airplanes and ships, the seismic experiment will place [鈥
The technologies in science fiction films like Gattaca and Blade Runner may seem light-years away, but the development of a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is bringing our society closer to these futuristic worlds than ever before. During her talk titled 鈥淐RISPR: The Genome Editing Revolution鈥 on June 29, Assistant [鈥
There will be a Celebration of Life for Bruce Selleck 鈥71 in the Colgate Memorial Chapel on Saturday, October 14, beginning at 3:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the celebration in the Ho Atrium, Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. In addition, the geology department will be holding a reception at the Colgate Inn in [鈥
Ten minutes before totality 鈥 astronomer Anthony Aveni sets the stage for readers who have not seen a total solar eclipse 鈥 the light will be almost fifty thousand times brighter than a full moonlit sky. Read about Aveni in the Colgate Scene
Spot the difference: A group of people or people in a group? While these phrases might seem interchangeable at first glance, recent research by Erin Cooley, assistant professor of psychology, shows that humans interpret these similar statements in unexpected ways. Cooley鈥檚 research investigates the topic of mind perception 鈥 the idea that we can ascribe [鈥