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In a bowl of breakfast cereal, principles of attraction on display

Andong He saw a phenomenon at work in his breakfast bowl that he couldn’t explain. It prompted this question: How does cereal shape influence the way cereals floating in the milk join?The Yale postdoctoral student offers an answer, along with collaborators Khoi Nguyen and Shreyas Mandre of Brown University, in a new paper published May...

Congratulations to Graduate Student Daniel Field

Daniel received a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship which will provide him the opportunity to spend a semester as a graduate student in residence at the Smithshonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, where he will work on a variety of projects relating to modern and fossil birds. Daniel is a third-year PhD student studying ...

Congratulations to Graduate Student Rachel Racicot

Rachel has received an NSF funded East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) research scholarship. She'll be travelling to Japan in June, and explicitly working on the evolution of echolocation in dolphins and whales. This work will use CT scans of fossil skulls and earbones, and will start the process of working out when these animals...

Congratulations to Bill Boos who has received an NSF CAREER award

Bill Boos has received an NSF CAREER award for his proposal: "The Influence of Desert Heat Lows on Monsoon Precipitation".  As NSF says on its website, the CAREER program is one of the "National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research,...