The Three Meter Geodynamo experiment is the latest in a series of progressively larger experiments in the Lathrop Lab at the University of Maryland to study how planets generate magnetic fields. We are essentially trying to build planetary cores in the lab. We hope the Three Meter experiment will generate a magnetic field from a [...]
An aerial tour of the OSU campus, the country’s largest university by enrollment. The helicopter tour begins east of the campus. It approaches the campus from the east and shows Route23/High Street (running north to south) where the main entrance to the school is located. Next is the view (from east to west) along Lane [...]
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price welcome the Class of 2013 to the Penn family. In her welcome address, Dr. Gutmann encouraged students to pursue their personal and intellectual passions by asking what they can best accomplish for themselves, for Penn, for society and the world. Additional images from the event are available on [...]
His place as one of the great writers of the 20th century firmly established, William Faulkner accepted an invitation in 1957 from U.Va.’s English department to come to the University as writer-in-residence. Faulkner’s appointment was cause for excitement among students and faculty, though the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature initially caught Virginians [...]
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