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ONE-MA3 gives students hands-on fieldwork experience in the context of cultural heritage

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ONE-MA3 gives students hands-on fieldwork experience in the context of cultural heritage
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[fusion_text]Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, and teaching assistants Linda Seymour and Chad Loh, led a group of ten students around Italy for the second annual summer fieldwork program on Materials in Art, Archeology, and Architecture (ONE-MA3). The program provides students with the opportunity to explore ancient technologies directly in the field to inform their work in the fall class 1.057 (Heritage Science and Technology). In addition to getting hands-on fieldwork experience and discussing with experts current challenges of the field, the group was also granted special access to restricted laboratories and areas of the ancient sites and museums that were not open to the public. Read more on MIT News.[/fusion_text]