What is space economics? Is it important? Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele asked students on Monday, Feb. 11, at an event hosted by Praxis to discuss the future of space economics. Praxis’ first official event of the semester addressed the topics of space development, the question of private property in space, and the kinds...
Ornithologist Ben and his assistant and Ph. D. candidate Lily are walking through a forest looking for sandpipers, when they discover a moustached kingfisher — the first one seen in 100 years — and accidentally kill it. At 7:30 p.m. last Thursday, senior Judy Moreno presented her senior project: A reading of her two-act play,...
Every family has a handful of recipes that are more than staples: They’re family legend. Gramma’s banana bread, with a vinegar-milk mixture in place of buttermilk. Steve’s chicken chili. George Washington’s pea soup. The recipes are a weird conglomeration of your parents’ favorites: For me, that’s the stew my dad’s mom always made, a casserole...
Brendan Noble ’18 has always been down for a challenge. As a first semester freshman in an intermediate-level economics class — a class which Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Clark said “many juniors who take it fear” — Noble walked away with one of the best grades in the class. “When I warned him to...
Ryan Wilson is a poet and the current editor of Literary Matters, an online literary journal. Wilson’s first book of poems, “The Stranger World,” won the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and his poems, translations, and criticism appear widely in periodicals such as First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee...