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Alumnus astronaut leads Hubble repair Seven minutes and counting: Resetting
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Natural
selection at the molecular level What's stronger than a sheet of crumpled
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ASTRONAUT leads Hubble repair
When NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld, SM'84, PhD'88, went into orbit March 1 aboard
space shuttle Columbia, the payload commander on a mission to upgrade the Hubble
Space Telescope--named for Edwin Hubble, SB'10, PhD'17--took some of Chicago's
past and present with him. Along with the front page of Hubble's doctoral dissertation,
Grunsfeld took a CD containing "Cubes in Space," drawings by third graders
at the U of C Laboratory Schools. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020221/grunsfeld.shtml
SEVEN
MINUTES AND COUNTING: Resetting the "Doomsday Clock"
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, housed at the U of C, has moved the minute
hand of the "Doomsday Clock" forward two minutes--its third advance
since the end of the Cold War. The new time--seven minutes to midnight--is the
same as when the clock made its debut in 1947.
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/020227.doomsday.shtml
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NATURAL
SELECTION at the molecular level
Three U of C geneticists have shown that natural selection plays a much larger
role in molecular evolution than suspected. Tallying minute variations within
each of 45 genes among fruit flies of one species and contrasting them with the
same genes from another species, the team found that about 25 percent--most involved
in processes such as disease resistance or sexual reproduction--showed evidence
of ongoing rapid evolution in response to competitive pressures. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020307/evolve.shtml
WHAT'S STRONGER
than a sheet of crumpled paper?
Try to crumple a piece of paper as small as you can. Squeeze harder. Further compression
seems impossible. What happened when a team of Chicago physicists set out to compress
a crumpled sheet of Mylar? For that matter, why would they bother? "A better
understanding of crumpling," answers the New York Times, "could explain
phenomena as diverse as the colliding of tectonic plates in the earth's crust
and the wrinkling of cell walls."
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/02/020219.paper.html
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MEN'S
INDOOR TRACK & FIELD team wins UAA championship
The Maroons indoor track & field team won the team title at the 2002 University
Athletic Association Championship, March 1-2 at Brandeis University. Chicago claimed
its first-ever UAA indoor track & field title, 14 athletes earned All-UAA
honors, and head coach Chris Hall and his staff were named UAA Coaching Staff
of the Year.
http://www.uchicago.edu/student/athletics/news/cctfuaa0302.htm
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WEB
CAM offers view of Chicago's gothic skyline
Miss the view from south of the Midway? Worried that with all the new construction
the quads will lose their gothic charm? Click here for proof that the more things
change, the more they stay the same:
http://m-cam.uchicago.edu/view/view.shtml
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