Two St. Olaf seniors and one alumna were recently named Fulbright fellows for 2008-09. They will use the prestigious award to pursue opportunities ranging from performing breast cancer research in Norway to teaching English in Turkey to studying a Russian
Phil Lundin, head men's track and field coach at the University of Minnesota, has been named head men's cross country and track and field coach at St. Olaf. Lundin, a four-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, will begin his
A Florida aeronautics professor has invented a disc shaped flyer that uses a "plasma actuator" for maneuvering. It still needs to be helped with a little helium though.Read More
Well, pre oil like hydrocarbon deposits. A new paper is making the claim that the asteroid strike that caused Chicxulub Crater that lead to a massive dinosaur extinction event was a lucky shot, in that it apparently hit a rich
I report a novel theory that nonuniform viscous frictional force in the solar nebula accounts for the largest mass of Jupiter and Saturn and their largest amount of H and He among the planets, two outstanding facts that are unsolved
The observed rapid onset of star formation in molecular clouds requires rapid formation of dense fragments which can collapse individually before being overtaken by global gravitationally-driven flows.
A brain scan study has revealed that the appetite-stimulating gut hormone ghrelin rules our heads by making food look yummier too. The hormone is known to rise before meals, then fall after.
St. Olaf seniors Peter Schattauer and Maggie Matson are leading this year's Senior Giving Campaign, which aims to instill a sense of philanthropy in the Class of 2008. "As alumni, it is time to start intentionally thinking about the way
One of our partners, Vator.tv, just released an interesting interview with Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a prestigious VC firm. The conversation was centered on the types of companies and their teams that the firm
