Finding the God Particle: Sau Lan Wu '63
Sau Lan Wu '63, the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a key member of the ATLAS team of physicists at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, whose ongoing research has led to the discovery of a new subatomic particle that may be the elusive Higgs boson ("God Particle"). Read More …
2012 Robotics Challenge
For the 2012 edition of the Robotics Challenge, teams conceived their own projects: a quadcopter that navigates autonomously, a teaching robot that helps kids learn about hardware and software, and a robotic arm that responds to human gestures and voice commands. Read More …
Summer Science Series: Team 'Neurotox' Tackles Parkinson's
The discoveries Eunice Chou ’14 made in a Vassar research lab this year may well lead to breakthroughs in finding the causes of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders. Read More …
Junk? No ... Gems!
The Vassar College Artifacts Project joins together more than a dozen faculty, former faculty, and staff members who meet monthly to discuss how the college's artifacts should be catalogued and displayed—some of them on the campus, others at various museums. Read More …
