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Editorial: Research Rodeo
Our new name for the annual Graduate Research Exhibition.
Outlook: New Worlds in Focus
What Virginia Woolf thought about the stars, and why it matters.
Profile: Uncle Remus Live
Use your imagination, and you'll hear Anthony Irons tell
the story of "The Farmer and the Snake."
Encyclopedia:
- Eye of Fly
- A defect in a fly's eye may hold clues to understanding normal cell development.
Urban Shadows
Linking a climate model to satellite maps can show the effects of urbanization.
Points of Distinction
Subtle shifts in the shape of a spearhead give clues to
the size and structure of early Pennsylvania societies.
- New Sensations
What do bungee jumpers, car thieves, politicians, and five-year-olds have in common?
- Taking it Outside
Should gardens figure into patient care?
- Cool Sounds
How to run a refrigerator on rock and roll.
News Reports
Winners of the 1997 Graduate Research Exhibition
Unpaged insert:
VP
for Research Annual Report, FY 1997
ARTICLES
Clean Cows
Scourge of the dairy barn, mastitis costs U.S. farmers some
$1.8 billion every year. Against such infections of the
mammary gland, antibiotics are frequently not much good. Looking
for a better answer for both farmers and cows, immunologist
Lorraine Sordillo and her graduate students are shedding new
light on the fundamentals of inflammation.
On the Pinch-Off of a Pendant Drop
How does a drop drop? When does the bulbous part pinch off
from the thinning thread? According to one mathematical theory,
the secret is that "h, which is the radius of the filament,
goes like one over the square root of time." Graduate student
Linda Smolka is using high-speed digital video to learn if
that theory holds true.
The Violin-Playing Machine
The finest violin is a Stradivarius, made some 300 years ago.
What makes its sound so rich? With her violin-playing machine,
graduate student Lily Wang can see the pattern of sound an
instrument makes and quantify why one plays better than another.
Notebook: Film Fest
How graduate students play in Hollywood.
Letters:
A Typical Tick, Astronomical Points, The Accidental Comet,
Geriatric Eyesight, and Hamlet's Universe
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