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TREX Day 3 – Plant Life

January 15, 2019 | TREX | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was a pants kind of day. Our group started off adventuring into the woods behind the house to take something called a transect. Professor Dave Des Marais walked 50 feet straight […]

IAP 2018: Highlights of my Externship

February 8, 2018 | IAP | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ‘20 This past month has been absolutely amazing. Last Friday was the last day of my externship at Terreform, so I thought I would highlight my top five experiences at the externship. 5) […]

IAP 2018: Failing Safely

January 31, 2018 | IAP | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ‘20 The less glamorous, but equally important, measure of an energy system is what happens when it fails. The Blackout of 1965 was the first time that the entirety of the Con Ed […]

IAP 2018: Cronuts, cappuccinos, and carbon emissions

January 29, 2018 | IAP | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ‘20 New York City has a bunch of so-called “peakers,” power plants that are designed for use only in dire circumstances. Typically, peakers are only powered on during the hottest days of the […]

IAP 2018: Learning about power and energy in New York City

January 25, 2018 | IAP | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ’20 At this point I’ve been living it up in the “Big Apple” for just over two weeks. I’m here doing an externship at Terreform, a small urban design/research firm in the West […]