November 17, 1997 Volume 87, Number 10 | Prev | Next | Index
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Making bacteria move
By JoAnn Gutin$2.8 million grant supports research on subsurface method of toxic cleanup
Every geology student learns there are three classes of rocks: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. If Associate Professor of Geosciences T. C. Onstott were a rock, he would definitely fall into the metamorphic category. (Photograph by Mary de Flaun: a site in Virginia undergoing chemical analysis and permeability measurements prior to bacterial injections)
IPPEX website earns five awards
It's "Cool" and a "Hot Spot." It's the Internet Plasma Physics Educational eXperience (IPPEX), the Plasma Physics lab's interactive website. IPPEX allows users to operate their own fusion experiments and analyze data from real experiments conducted by physicists. It includes an introduction to fusion; interactive physics modules on Matter, Electricity and Magnetism, Energy, and Fusion, at an upper middle-school level; a section of data analysis from PPL's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR); a "Virtual Tokamak"; and "Ask a Scientist," in which students from all over the world can ask questions on plasma physics and fusion energy. You can check it out at http://ippex.PPPL.gov/ippex/.
David Garrick to Woody Allen
By Caroline MoseleyMary Ann Jensen is curator of Seymour Theatre Collectionin Firestone Library
Ask curator Mary Ann Jensen to list some of the treasures of Firestone Library's William Seymour Theatre Collection and be prepared for an embarrassment of riches.
Trustees name nine assistant professors
Nine new assistant professors were appointed to the faculty at the November 1 meeting of the trustees.
Freshman seminar
Geosciences Professor Kenneth Deffeyes (above, c) demonstrates titratration of water from California's Mono Lake to members of a freshman seminar on Active Geological Processes. The students, accompanied by professors Lincoln Hollister (standing, l), Robert Phinney and Jason Morgan, spent their fall break doing field work in the Sierra Nevada, observing the results of recent volcanoes, earthquakes and glaciers. Brenda Lin (r) hefts a boulder of pumice.
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