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Jake Schenthal ’21: Award-winning research in the Mediterranean
Jan. 5, 2021—Jake Schenthal ’21 at his field site in the Middle East Jake received the department’s Alberstadt-Reesman-Stearns Field Studies Award, enabling him to conduct research on human-environmental interactions in the Middle East. “I gained tremendous knowledge about how human societies interact with the surrounding ecosystem in both the Mediterranean and the surrounding valleys. I am immensely grateful to...
Maya Sandal ’21: Life-changing field work in the Italian Alps
Jan. 5, 2021—Maya Sandal ’21 in the Italian Alps In August 2019, Maya traveled with professor Dan Morgan to Italy’s Northern Alps. The two collected rock samples to aid in research on deglaciation in the area. Maya went hiking, worked with students and professors from the local university, and learned about glacial geology. After returning to Vanderbilt,...
Prof. David Furbish and PhD student Kelsea Best follow up on Bernard K. Forscher’s 1963 essay, Chaos in the Brickyard
Jan. 5, 2021—The authors of The Brickyard in 2020 (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher’s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, “Chaos in the Brickyard.” It calls for a need to realign the research endeavor, institutions and incentives with...