"Serendipity and Circumstance in the Crafting of a Career"
Crouched beneath a tight rock overhang, Lucy Johnson carefully measures the length and width of the dark space surrounding her. For the past year, the professor of anthropology has been working with students at the Mohonk Preserve to survey the ridge and identify rock shelters used by some of the earliest people as they moved through the Shawangunks. As each piece of the puzzle falls into place, Johnson and her student researchers come closer to uncovering the travelers’ route and understanding how they used the land. more...
Upcoming: The URSI Symposium
Some spent the summer wading knee-deep in the Casperkill; others stayed up late on clear nights at the Observatory, monitoring the brightness of stars in the very early stages of evolution; still others collected soil and water samples from a small watershed in the Shawangunk Mountains and spent hours back in the lab performing chemical analyses. more...
Tim O’Brien To Discuss the Writing Life
Tim O’Brien, this year’s William Starr Distinguished Lecturer, writes about a seemingly endless war, and a politician caught in a lie about his controversial past. To the incoming class, these words may read like the headlines of today’s New York Times. more...