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…

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…

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…

Lauren Giesecke (’01) was recently roaming the Slovakian countryside. These are the fearsome sheep that pursued her all the way to Croatia: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69CoEBMe17A]

The above promise from Sean Aiken (’02) appears in this article from the Daily Wildcat. Read the Tucson Citizen‘s article at your peril–Sean says he was a little sorta kinda misquoted. Although… that’s exactly what the rock stars in “Almost…

Business Week has the scoop on Tony Kwasnica‘s (’90) current research into futures markets. Tony, an associate professor of economics at Penn State, has demonstrated that futures markets can be used to accurately predict the weather. Elsewhere in his professional…

Kate Petersen (’00), who works for the Boston-based Prescription Project, produces the pharmaceutical-industry watchdog’s weekly newsletter, and has just taken on oversight of PostScript, the organization’s new blog. Meanwhile, one of Kate’s side projects has reached a major milestone. She…