University of California, Riverside professor Mary Droser shared her research on early animal life as part of the 45th Annual Woodford-Eckis Lectureship on Saturday, Feb. 1.
Tag: Geology
Science as a Human Endeavor: Is science just a requirement?
Are the Claremont Colleges’ general education requirements doing enough to teach students scientific literacy? Columnist Gabriel Brenner PO ’26 discusses the value of a scientific education for non-science majors.
Starr to take spring sabbatical, Gaines to serve as interim president
Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr to take spring sabbatical; Mark Kendall and Samuel Glick step down from their positions.
Claremont is overdue for ‘The Big One.’ Should you be concerned?
TSL news writers Anushe Engineer SC ’22 and Maggie Lind SC ’22 sit down with Pomona College Geology Professor Nicole Moore to discuss the likelihood of an earthquake in the Claremont area and what students should know to prepare themselves.
Seriously, Science: What lava flows can tell us about Earth’s history
Joe Biasi, a geology graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, explains how lava flows can tell us about Earth’s history.
Seriously, science: Recent Midwestern flooding leaves devastation in its tracks, affects 5C students’ hometowns
Stories of recent flooding in the Midwest have made headlines across the country, and the disaster has affected 5C students.
Pomona professor discovers 500-million-year-old fossil site in China
Pomona College geology professor Robert Gaines recently helped uncover a 518-million-year-old Cambrian fossil site.
University at Buffalo’s Tracy Gregg on creating a more diverse STEM field
Professor Tracy Gregg, the guest at Pomona College’s 39th Woodford-Eckis Lectureship last week, is paving the way for women in STEM. As the first woman hired in the geology department at the University at Buffalo, she said she has dealt with her fair share of gender discrimination, but ultimately worked
Forecasting the future of climate change: What next?
5C students joined Pomona geology professor Robert Gaines in a discussion on the future of global warming and climate change last Wednesday, as part of the Pomona Student Union’s Chat and Stew series. The discussion stemmed from a recent Global Warming report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.