In the world of electronic music, there are many different options for performance. Video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band let you get up on stage for a concert as long as you can press the right buttons at the right time. You cannot, however, choose when you play…
Goshen College students Greg Thiessen (Austin, Texas) and Peter Martin (Goshen, Indiana) worked with professor Dr. Andrew (Andy) Ammons in the Biology Department over the summer of 2010 in the annual Maple Scholars program. These students learned the basics of beekeeping and bee management, honey bee physiology and genomics, and…
Michael Fecher, Junior from Goshen, Indiana Dr. James Miller, Professor of Biology A great amount of life as we know it depends on a little wall that is 7 nanometers wide: the cell membrane. It keeps us alive by protecting our cells. It is also a prominent biological target…
Lydia Short, Sarah Rody Patricia Oakley, Professor of Mathematics In the summer of 2010 we, Lydia Short, math and piano graduate, and Sarah Rody, third year math major and piano minor, had only one task: find an idea that combines math and music and, from it, develop a project.
Quietly the grief loudly the pain. The accumulated poison love faded away Mine was a strange world of criminal silences of stranger’s watchful eyes misreading the evil. darkness in the daytime… Was it my fault? I admit,…
Caleb Paul Mechem, Junior from Decatur, IL Paul Keim, Professor of Bible and religion There has been an explosion of scientific interest in consciousness in recent decades in fields as diverse as neuroscience, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. These developments have also sharpened the longstanding debate…
Hannah Geiser, Sophomore Dr. Rich Manalis, Dr. James Miller How do you remember how to ride a bike? What really happens in your brain that you can recall eating a piece of pie a year ago? This projectís goal was to develop an undergraduate lab using the frog…
Julia Baker, Senior from Fresno, California Pat McFarlane, Associate Professor of Communications The play Heavenly Voices shares the stories of Mennonite Women of Color across the Mennonite Church from Alabama to Montana, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. The play was preformed on July 14, 2010 at Living Waters Fellowship…
Liz Gunden, Senior Art Major Randy Horst, Associate Professor of Art The mural is a unique art form in that it presents many distinctive challenges. The physical act of painting a mural as well as transferring a design onto a large scale are the more obvious challenges to…
David J. Nyce, Senior from Millbury, Massachusetts Carl S. Helrich, Professor Emeritus of Physics An apparatus, given to Goshen College by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, was used to develop experiments to explain the basis for plasma physics. The experiments involving Paschen Law, Langmuir Probes, and Plasma Instabilities all give…
