by Violet Wallerstein On Wednesday, March 29, the RISE program hosted a guest lecturer as part of their regular lecture series, this one featuring a more biological spin. Dr. Maria Luisa Garcia…
by Maimouna Kante Perhaps if George Powell had not visited Monteverde, it would have been a sight lost to farming in 1972. During one of their visits to Costa Rica, Powell and…
by Jesse Murray A group of Italian researchers recently completed a meta-analysis comparing GMO corn variants to their non-GMO counterparts. GMOs are genetically modified organisms. This meta-analysis included over 6,000 peer reviewed…
by Colleen Dabrowski With the start of Spring, plant life all across campus should start to bloom. The first sign of the seasons turning has been the early sprouting of daffodils. Daffodils…
Abigail Mullen In a recent study published on March 5 by Scientific Report, scientists have shown that there is a larger population of Adélie penguins than previously thought. A large…
Maimouna Kante On the Northeastern tip of Puerto Rico lies a lighthouse built by the Spanish upon their arrival. The lighthouse over looks the Atlantic Ocean, a bioluminescent bay outlined with thousands…
Colleen Dabrowski Spruce trees are of the genus Picea, which is made up of over 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees from the family Pinaceae. Evergreen is a term to describe plants…
by Katelynn Fleming The global scientific community is mourning the death of Stephen Hawking this week, a visionary physicist and inspiration to people in all walks of life. Dr. Hawking is well-known…
by Abigail Mullen On Feb. 6, a study on the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome was published in the journal JAMA. Previous studies with small sample sizes estimated that 10 per every…
By Colleen Dabrowski I am inherently skeptical about the medical field. It is built upon a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic foundation and continues those trends through today. Studies show that only those…