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Andrea Lommen is part of a $6.5 million grant project that will prepare astronomers for the era of gravitational wave astronomy.  more >

Ryan Mehl receives big news from the United States Patent and Trademark Office about his work with fluorinated amino acids.  more >

Scott Brewer, assistant professor of chemistry, and Ed Fenlon, associate professor of chemistry, received a $195,895 grant for their project, "Development and Application of Multi-Spectroscopic, Site-Specific (MS3) Probes of Nucleic Acid Structure." more >

Dorothy Merritts, professor of geosciences, is the 2010 recipient of the Bradley R. Dewey Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the College's highest honor for scholarship.  more >

Joe Thompson and his students, known as "The Squid Squad," embark on a new project with a grant from the National Science Foundation.   more >

Dan Ardia explores the cost-benefit "tradeoffs" that define an emerging field in evolutionary biology.  more >

Jaime Blair helps a new generation of scientists integrate traditional research methods with bioinformatics.  more >

The Departments of Earth and Environment and Chemistry embark on a sophisticated shopping trip to equip the College with state-of-the-art technology.  more >

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Christina Weaver looks forward to the challenges of the classroom.  more >

Using spring beauty plants, Jorge Mena-Alí studies the dynamics of disease transmission across species.  more >

Armed with a $171,619 grant from the National Science Foundation, Janardhan Iyengar aims to help users drive innovation.  more >

Kate Plass and a team of Hackman Scholars will look deep into the materials that makeup solar cells to find ways to improve the technology.   more >

Consortium supports geology research for undergraduates.  more >

Kate Plass, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a Cottrell College Science Award of $45,000 for her research on low-cost solar cells.  more >

Dorothy Merritts and Robert Walter ’75 hope to restore the natural ecological function of the Lancaster County landscape.  more >

Fronefield Crawford, assistant professor of astronomy, leads a team effort to learn more about a pulsar system 2,500 light years from Earth.  more >

At an innovative research center in the south of France, Roger Thompson studies abstract concept formation in baboons.   more >

Development destroyed much of the natural habitat on Martha's Vineyard. Dan Ardia wants to know how animals respond when the habitat is restored.  more >

Michael Anderson and his team are building the brains of the next generation of Mars rovers, thanks to a National Science Foundation grant.  more >

Megan Knowles brings an interest in parasocial interpersonal relationships to the Department of Psychology.  more >

The accumulation of biological data keeps Jing Hu on the cutting edge of computer science innovation.  more >