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51����’s Chapel House is at once an architectural novelty and a sanctuary. Beneath the flat roof, behind the 1950s abstracted formalism, you’ll see rare works of religious art and books on world religion; you’ll find a dining room, music room, and living quarters. In silence and meditation, you can lose yourself or find yourself at […]

Six members of the 51���� University computer science department recently traveled to Houston, TX, to participate in the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Students Lauren Henske ’20, Zoila Rodriguez ’18, Stephanie Tortora ’17, and Bria Vicenti ’17 and professors Aaron Gember-Jacobson and Madeline E. Smith were among nearly 15,000 attendees at the […]

Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, a Styrofoam cooler filled with GPS equipment and GoPro cameras floats toward Nova Scotia. The cooler, with a popped balloon and parachute attached, is actually the body of a weather balloon that the 51���� Engineering Club designed and built. The club launched the balloon on October 5, and they tracked […]

It turns out that everyone may have been measuring carbon emissions incorrectly all along. But not in a good way. New research led by 51���� Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Physics Linda Tseng, published this week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology and reported in Scientific American, identified an overlooked source of greenhouse gas […]

A message in the Scene from President Brian W. Casey for the 51���� University community.

Bruce Milligan ’73, who began his career as a game designer, now creates computer simulations that save lives.

Joe Donnelly ’86 wrote a short story about a baseball player, titled “Bonus Baby,” which won the 2016 O’Henry Prize.

As a senior political reporter for The Huffington Post and a regular guest on MSNBC, Amanda Terkel ’04 has a front-row seat to history.