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Polly wants a cracker. And a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.

Not to be too uncaring in a period of mourning, but Dr. Pepperberg, watch your back! The new parrot authority in the neighborhood is none other than Becky Fox (’96). She wrapped up a Ph.D. at UC Davis, where she studied things like parrots’ neophobia and whether well-matched parrot parents do a better job of […]

Econ Man

Sort of has a catchy ring, doesn’t it? Like Iron Man in those old Marvel comic books, but holding a copy of the Journal under his arm instead of wearing a funny-looking suit of armor. But we digress. The point is, Matt Cox (’94) is working on some very cool projects–studying the effects of welfare […]

Karl Rove x James Carville =

Who knows the solution to that little bit of arithmetic… What we do know is that Kelley Van Auken (’95) is holding her own in the political arena. After working in the White House in the late 90s, Kelley lit out for the territory, where she worked for Rep. Susan Davis of San Diego. Now […]

Barber shop

We asked the Google to tell us about “the jacques yves cousteau lab” and we got exactly zero hits. But, there’s a real live Barber Lab, at Boston University. Thus proving, as if anyone doubted it, that Paul Barber (’87) is the most famous marine biologist in the world.

A cantora maior de Bossa Nova em Tucson

We were kicking ourselves for missing all the celebrations of Brazil’s Independence Day back in September, and had reached the point of asking every person we met on the street if they might have a copy of Tristes Tropiques to spare. Then we heard from Theresa (Scionti) Levy (’86). And now we feel much better. […]

Are you smarter than a 7th grader?

Now you can find out. No humiliation from Jeff Foxworthy required. Scoot over to the web page of Becki Norris (’95), where she has posted homework for her students in physical science, geometry, and drawing. We’ve already learned a bunch about sea-floor spreading and convection ovens currents, and we’ve met a whole slew of polygons. […]

Conquering CCC, one department at a time

Tim (’97) and Esther (’98 ) Ellsworth Bowers are staying busy these days sustaining the science offerings at Coconino Community College in Flagstaff. Tim is teaching half of CCC’s physics sections this fall, while Esther is teaching a section of anatomy and piloting an online bio course, a key addition for a college serving a […]

The Other Marshalls

We don’t intend for you to read this post, pack your bags, and catch the next flight to Heathrow. But that might be the consequence of reading any further. A couple of years ago, Becky Mosher (’94) was finishing her Ph.D. in genetics at Duke, and trolling around for a postdoc opportunity. She came across […]

“Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!”

Wm. Shakespeare said that. Todd Murphey (’93) said this: This video is a (somewhat biased) comparison between simulations created with a variational integrator (left) and a continuous ODE (right). The variational integrator is a Mathematica implemenation that ran in about 10 minutes with a 0.01 second stepsize. The continuous system used a C implementation that […]

Spring break diary

According to reports emerging from our Cape Town bureau, NSEP scholar Nicole Rennell (’05) is putting her time in South Africa to excellent use, improving her command of Xhosa while she works in a public-health clinic. She isn’t just surfing the fast right break at Tofinho. But enough preemptive defenses. Let’s go to a diary […]