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  • It’s not news that ±«Óătv is committed to sustainability, but it might be surprising to hear that, unlike many other higher education institutions, ±«Óătv has launched management practices for its on- and off-campus forests to reduce the university’s carbon footprint, another important step toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2019. “Most campuses are completely ignoring their [
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    December 3, 2014
  • A ±«Óătv alum stands on scafolding during the construction of Professor DeWitt Godfrey's newest sculpture, Odin.
    A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of ±«Óătv Professor DeWitt Godfrey’s latest sculpture, Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey’s Odin weighs [
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    November 21, 2014
  • Debra LoCastro '05
    (Editor’s Note: ±«Óătv has a professional network committed to helping students and alumni discover careers in the digital media and technology fields.) In her eight years with Google, Debra LoCastro ’05 has risen from sales associate to university programs lead. She manages the student outreach team, helping students learn about career opportunities at Google. She recently [
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    November 18, 2014
  • This is an artist’s impression of the triple star system GG Tau A
    An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, ±«Óătv associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a “planet-forming lifeline” in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led [
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    November 5, 2014
  • In a Huffington Post story titled “10 Uses of Drones in Higher Education,” marketer Vala Afshar highlights ±«Óătv’s innovative use of a drone to capture the activity and spirit of the 2013 move-in day, when first-year students arrive on campus. Here’s the video from that day, captured by a GoPro camera attached to a [
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    October 29, 2014
  • Two recent talks by ±«Óătv professors give some context to the ebola outbreak response from two angles, one by a virologist examining the nature of epidemics, and the other from a perspective of government response, specifically in Liberia.
    October 3, 2014