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ONE-MA3 – Day XXIII: Gypsum, Gypsum, Everywhere!

July 26, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Over the course of the entire trip, we’ve heard all about gypsum. Gypsum this, gypsum that. When I first heard the word during the information sessions for ONE-MA^3, I was confused by […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s article in Top 50 (#10) most read Earth and planetary sciences Nature Communications articles published in 2018

July 22, 2019 | News | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s article titled “North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation,” is one of the Top 50 (#10) most read Earth and planetary sciences Nature Communications […]

ONE-MA3: Castle on the Hill

July 19, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 I went into this trip with few expectations. That’s not the same as low expectations. I simply did not have any concrete things that I expected. I had a notion of general […]

ONE-MA3: More Than Travel Companions

July 19, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 ONE-MA3 has provided each of us with an unrivaled experience. We have had experts lecture in every aspect of conservation from history to preservation methods. Just the other day we had Duncan, […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XX: Photogrammetry among Pharaohs!

July 17, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Today, we got to be professionals. At least, the red bars of tape that blocked off certain areas of the Museo Egizio for us to work in made us feel like we […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XIX: Face-to-Face With 3000-Year-old Artifacts!

July 17, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Usually, most ancient artifacts can only be seen being displayed behind glass under scattered spotlight, or even from afar behind a rail. Today however, there were no boundaries when it came to […]

ONE-MA3: Our last day in Italia

July 16, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Meriah Gannon ’22 Almost three and a half weeks after we first landed in Italy, our last full day in this country has arrived. Although I was sad to see this day come, I was […]

ONE-MA3: Gypsum Adventures in Aramengo

July 16, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Carene Umubyeyi ’22 Our last day of ONE-MA3 was spent applying what we learned in Professor Ochsendorf’s lecture at the American Academy in Rome by constructing our own gypsum shell structures using minimal reinforcement. We […]

The Power of Pigments

July 15, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Even though the ONE-MA^3 program has finished, I decided to stay in Italy to work with the University of Turin and the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) studying the pigment Egyptian blue and […]

ONE-MA3: Finding the Ever-Elusive “Work-Life Balance”

July 15, 2019 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 I think that I just received arguably the best lecture of my life. There is some serious competition – I had Professor Eric Lander for 7.012 – but this lecture is certainly […]

Cajón del Maipo

July 11, 2019 | Study Abroad | CEE Chief Editor

By Shannon Wing ’22 When making the decision on what to do with my summer, I had two requirements. Number 1: Work within the field of sustainability. Number 2: Be somewhere where I could hike and […]

A Summer in Chile

July 11, 2019 | Study Abroad | CEE Chief Editor

By Shannon Wing ’22 Hello! Two weeks ago at around this time, I was waking up to my new neighbor friend tapping me on the shoulder saying, ‘we are here.” I had somehow managed to sleep […]

A Discussion Over the Ethics of Mummified Hands

July 11, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 While I’m here in Italy, I have been completing most of my research at the Museo Egizio of Turin, which is home to the second largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in the […]

ONE-MA3: Day XXIV: A Grand Gypsum-Filled Finale

July 10, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Even though the bittersweet end of the ONE-MA^3 program has been rapidly approaching, our pace of completing research has kept at a quick clip, if not even faster than it has been […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XVIII: Night at the Egyptian Museum…During the Day

July 8, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 We all know the story of Night at the Museum, and many of us can admit to fantasizing when we were younger about what might happen if artifacts of figurines and mummies […]