Architecture sophomore Madeline Ham-Ost didn’t know much about gilding when the Honors college presented her with the opportunity to take a brief course about the art.
Gilding involves applying thin sheets of any material — whether it be gold, silver or even aluminum — to decorate an object. The technique has been used by artists for thousands of years, notably in ancient Egypt and Greece. Continue reading
Physics junior Niyousha Davachi has already accomplished a lot during her undergraduate career. She’s given presentations on exomoons and lagrangians and has won a slew of awards for her work.
Now Niyousha has been been given a new task in her mission to understand the universe. She’ll be working at Texas A&M this summer to research dark matter, which is a relatively mysterious concept in cosmology or the study of the evolution of the universe.
Scientists, including Niyousha, still don’t know much about dark matter, but research to understand it is ongoing. Continue reading
When Mayowa Olawoyin was ten years old, she loved to play school with her friends and be a pretend teacher, happily writing down problems and giving her students homework. The subject was always math.
It was in high school that she figured out that a lot of people don’t really ‘get’ math. So, she was able to explain it to other students. She wanted to help people that don’t understand the subject to see it in a different light.
Today Mayowa is a second year graduate student with an honors degree in mathematics. She graduated in May 2015 and received the Torgeson Bridge fellowship the following summer. Now her focus is research in mathematical biology, which is useful for understanding organic processes with equations. Continue reading