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ONE-MA3 2018: Learning to use the DPI

June 30, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Samantha D’Alonzo ’21 Over the past few weeks, we have been using many different techniques to digitally recreate artifacts and archeological sites. We were introduced to these techniques on our first day of work in […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Week 1 in Italia

June 26, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Cleverine Cong ’21 Last week, a group of 15 jetlagged rising sophomores arrived in Rome for the Course 1 experience of a lifetime – ONE MA3. Here are a few things, not related to research, […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus

June 25, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Rachel Weissman ’21 This morning we traveled to the Parco Degli Acquedotti. This park, located 9km outside of Rome, contains the largest collection of intact Roman aqueducts. As we walked around the sunny park, archeologist […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Masters of Mortar

June 24, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today began with a lecture on geo polymers, limestones, and ancient building materials by the revered Gilberto Quarneti. We learned the steps to make limestone and some of the history behind how […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Castle Living

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 The Castle Caetani has been our home for the past week, and we’re finally getting used to living in a medieval castle. The girls live down the steps toward the stables, and […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Exploring Ninfa

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today we began by touring the Ninfa Gardens, which was built on a medieval city that was destroyed in 1382. Our guide explained how the city of Ninfa was a linking point […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Learning Photogrammetry and DPI

June 20, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Rachel Weissman ’21 After a weekend of kayaking and beaches, we began our real work on Monday, June 18. In the morning we received a guest lecture from Diego Ronchi, a doctorate student at the […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Adventuring with Area.3

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Balancing conservation of nature and history

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Patricia Gao ’21 Trees yawned. Water sparkled. Flowers bloomed, in the midst of clouds of butterflies. All of it happened around, over, and through the remains of a medieval village. This was the most romantic […]

ONE-MA3 2018: A Day in Priverno

June 18, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 A metal triangle hangs on the side of the Caetani Castle’s kitchen exterior, and the chefs’ children hit it with a hammer to signal meal times. This is how our day began, […]

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

July 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[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 […]

ONE-MA3 2017: The Finale

July 5, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig For ONE-MA3’s last day together in Italy, we had a lot of work planned. We started the day by pulling our boulders out of the oven and taking samples of the interior and […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Not the Right Kind of Blue

July 5, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team had been excitedly waiting for our Egyptian blue to finish cooking and today we were finally able to take our mixtures out of the furnace and see the change in […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Fresco

July 3, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig Day two in Aramengo was dedicated to learning about the fresco-making process and creating our own frescoes. In the morning, we walked through the studio of Gianluigi Nicola, one of the town’s fresco-painters. […]

ONE-MA3 2017: Is That a Pillow?

July 2, 2017 | ONE-MA3 2017 | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig It was now time for ONE-MA3 to leave the big city and head for the hills of Aramengo, which I was very excited about. We climbed past flowers and trees into a town […]