Research

Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution Scott Solomon (Yale University Press, 2016)

Modern humans aren’t an evolutionary end point, posits Scott Solomon, a professor in …
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Geoffrey Herd
 GRADUATE STUDENT 
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC
 Herd is a violinist and the founder and director of the Geneva Music Festival, who has performed throughout Asia and Latin America. …
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Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton (Columbia University Press, 2016)

Part philosophical treatise, part historical account and part lyric essay, “Dark Ecology” offers …
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JAMES MATTHEWS Graduate Student Department of Physics

Matthews analyzes molecular structure using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to study protein misfolding and insertion into biological membranes in …
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THE ROSS ICE SHELF’S HISTORIC LESSONS

• The Ross Ice Shelf, almost as large as France, is the world’s largest ice shelf.
• Scientists, including Rice oceanographer John Anderson, …
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AT 740 PAGES, “THE NIXON TAPES” IS A FASCINATING TOME OF POLITICAL REVELATION, containing the transcriptions of 3,700 hours of private conversations Nixon had in the White House between …
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