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Shanti Penprase ’16 Discovers Modern Farming Erodes Minnesota Faster Than The Glaciers
28 April 2025Science Magazine Few forces rival a glacier’s erosive power. Some 20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, the Laurentide Ice Sheet blanketed much of North America, gouging the land…
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Planet Forward What do mud, bugs, and cyanobacteria all have in common? They can teach us a lot about climate change. At Northwestern University’s Quaternary Sediment Laboratory, Ph.D. students working…
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Emily Schwing ’05 Investigates How The State Of Alaska Has Ignored Maintenance Of Native Schools
4 March 2025National Public Radio by Emily Schwing Nearly two dozen children in the tiny village of Sleetmute, Alaska, arrive for school each morning to a small brown building that is on…
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Alaska Public Media Lauren Jobe was skating on Portage Lake on Monday when she heard the glacier start cracking. She was about 80 yards away. “I know they make noises,…
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Sean McCauley ’89 Helps The Earth By Finding A Second Life For A Nasty Steel Mill Byproduct
21 January 2025MARKETPLACE Much of northwest Ohio is a quiet, sparse grid of farms. Right in the middle of it, just 7 miles south of the Michigan border, is Delta Raceway. It…
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Mark Dyson ’07 Explains The Virtues Of Virtual Power Plants
13 November 2024PV Magazine We need every tool in the toolkit to improve grid reliability, and we need them now, RMI’s managing director, Mark Dyson, told the pv magazine USA Week audience.…
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Christine Siddoway ’84 Helps Find Snowball Earth’s Missing Link
11 November 2024The Conversation – PNAS Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global…
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The Miami Student Are you overwhelmed by the course list and uncertain what to take next semester? If you responded “yes” and “yes,” then this condensed list of major-friendly environment…
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Rudy Molinek ’15 Wins 2024 National Academy Of Sciences Award
25 October 2024NationalAcademies.org Rudy Molinek has been awarded the Excellence in Science Communications prize by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Sciences. Rudy is a PhD…
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Noah Finnegan ’99 Discovers A Way To Predict Landslides
16 October 2024Phys*Org Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides is commonly prefaced by the phrase, “not if, but when.” This precarious reality is now a bit more predictable thanks…