Eric Smith '08 won first-place awards at the 75th Annual Minnesota Academy of Science Meeting and the 20th Annual Winchell Undergraduate Symposium for his research into turning prairie biomass into fuel. "It was a great feeling to present a project
The Naper family have owned the remaining old estate at Loughcrew since the 1600's but are now selling up and moving on. The sale includes the gardens and coffee shop where the key for Cairn T can be picked up
The pack aims to make learning about the monument fun A new teaching kit has been produced to help children get more out of school visits to Avebury and surrounding monuments in Wiltshire. The resource is aimed at key stage
The English Language and Linguistics class at St. Olaf will present a 'language museum' Tuesday. "I think often linguistics comes across as esoteric or mystical, and I want to make it seem clear and interesting," says Professor Louis Janus, who
During a visit to St. Olaf to discuss measures the college is taking to address global climate change, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said the innovation and creative thinking of college students is important in tackling this issue. "Sometimes I
We present an analysis of the distribution of Halpha emission measures for the warm ionized medium of the Galaxy using data from the WHAM Northern Sky Survey.
White dwarfs with surface magnetic fields in excess of $1 $MG are found as isolated single stars and relatively more often in magnetic cataclysmic variables.
We investigated the evolution of interacting disk galaxies using high-resolution $N$-body/SPH simulations taking into account the multiphase nature of the interstellar medium (ISM).