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In the fall of his junior year, Robert Welch ’20 attended a weekly “geo-lunch” meeting hosted by the Geosciences Department. The speaker, who was discussing the value of attending graduate school, imparted the following advice to the students sitting around the lunch table: “You must have the urge to ask the question ‘why?’”
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Fourteen attendees and three instructors from around the world have gathered on campus for the Short Course in Modern X-ray Spectrometry Theory offered by the Hamilton Analysis (XRF) Lab this week.
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Lucas Mangold, a rising senior from Greenwich, Conn., is spending the first weeks of summer break getting an early start on his thesis research. A geosciences major, he is analyzing local microspherules under the guidance of Professor of Geosciences Dave Bailey.
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Drew Castronovo ’19 began his Hamilton career with an Introduction to Geology Class and will soon graduate will a job inspecting sediment for L.A. Private Eyes Engineers.
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Willa Mihalyi-Koch ’19 and Hannah Zucker '15 have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. This is a highly competitive, prestigious, nationally recognized fellowship that is awarded to just under 2000 students in the natural and social sciences and engineering.
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Three geosciences majors recently presented their research at the 2019 Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America (GSA) conference in Portland, Maine.
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Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury was recently quoted in an article on Space.com about how NASA astronaut candidates train for space exploration.
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Hamilton is one of a handful of academic institutions to offer its faculty and students an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer and two experts to operate it.
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Brian Hough, a former assistant visiting professor of geosciences who taught at the College in 2014 and 2015, was one of the bystanders killed in the recent tragic motor vehicle accident in Schoharie, NY.
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From mapping lava on Mount Ngauruhoe to studying rock formations on the Kaikoura Peninsula, Drew Castronovo ’19 spent his summer on the move.
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