How do you make water seemingly vanish? Take a cup, put a superabsorbent polymer in it, pour water into it, and turn the cup upside down. The water doesn’t flow out. It’s like magic. Members of Hillsdale’s chapter of the American Chemical Society visited Gier Elementary School last month for its Family Science...
In the end, it was the titration lab that was their downfall in the Battle of the Chem Clubs. Senior Andrea Lee, a biochemistry major, was the only member of the five-person team that had taken analytical chemistry, and that was over a year ago. “In a titration lab, you’re trying to find the concentration...
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...
Anyone who has taken one of Professor of History Ken Calvert’s classes knows about his love of the overhead projector. Instead of the digital projectors wired into the ceiling of each classroom, Calvert prefers a boxy contraption illuminated by an incandescent light bulb that looks like it belongs in a “Looney Toons” episode. But Calvert...
It’s not every psychology research project that starts with decorating onesies for the participants, but it’s different when the research subjects are 6 to 24 months old. In preparation for her research project on infant social judgments, senior Mikaela Overton met with her adviser, chairwoman of psychology Kari McArthur, to iron “Baby Scientist” onto the...