Last time, we looked at two incredible presentations in biochemistry and biology from the Interdisciplinary Science Symposium, last Thursday, October 11, 2010. We’ll look at computers and nerves (though not together which would be pretty …

Last Thursday, October 11, 2010, four Trinity students presented their scientific discoveries from work conducted at Trinity. From the study of chemical compounds to the biology of fish brain cell generation to the effect of …

By Prof. David E. Henderson, Department of Chemistry
Science is a blast, but you might not know as an undergraduate. And what a pity. This week I picked up my issue of Science News and had several moments …

One of the strangest-looking devices on campus is the transmission electron microscope, hidden behind the door marked “E.M. Lab”, intelligible only to those who know the workings of the microscope. This enormous orange column, surrounded …

An enormous nest of insects clusters in a lab on the third floor of the Life Sciences Center, lurking in drawers and in phials. Fortunately for the squeamish, they are all dead, part of a …

The dream was undeniably powerful: growing organs and even bodies in vaporous vats of chemicals, churning out clones of our own vanity, and grasping for a kind of immortality. Misery and death could be turned …

Excerpt from CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND THE 21ST CENTURY: An Apology for Classical Humanism, a lecture given by Prof. John C. Williams, Hobart Professor, Emeritus, of Classics at his 60th Alumni Reunion at Trinity College.
Parataxis means “side-by-side …

By Prof. Bill Church, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Neuroscience
For the last couple of years, I have been exploring the relationship between science and religion, or more specifically Western Christianity.  There is an impressive amount of scholarly …