Only 40 feet underneath Cornell University’s football field, electron and positron beams race around a half-mile loop of narrow piping nearly as fast as the speed of light in a machine known as the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, or CESR. Junior Laura Salo’s research involving CESR at Cornell this past summer helped move the team...
Author: Madeleine Jepsen (Madeleine Jepsen)
Studio 42 opening celebrates art within community
Although black bears haven’t been sighted in Hillsdale county in many years, locals had an opportunity to see the black bear statues sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 is creating at her studio space at 42 Union St. The grand opening of Studio 42 Saturday afternoon featured Tritchka’s sculptures of the mother bear and the framework for...
Buttered Biscuit breaks into breakfast scene
For Sam Russell ’08 and his wife, Anna, opening their own breakfast restaurant was a family affair and a fulfillment of an entrepreneurial dream that had been ten years in the making. When The Buttered Biscuit opened its doors last April, Anna said she never imagined the success they have experienced in their first year...
‘Super blue blood moon’ rises in morning sky
Early Wednesday morning, a lunar eclipse occurred in combination with two other lunar phenomena, dubbed the “super blue blood moon.” During the lunar eclipse, the Earth passes between the sun and the moon, casting a reddish tint on the surface of the moon. “The Earth has an atmosphere and the moon doesn’t, so when you...
Conservation Club ramps up activities
When members of the Conservation Club helped clean up trash along a half-mile stretch of the Baw Beese Trail last semester, they collected six bags of trash, four tires, and a windowpane in half an hour, senior Andrea Wallace, Conservation Club president, said. Their Baw Beese cleanup events are part of the club’s intentional effort...




