Cell biology laboratory skills are the core foundational skills for all biomedical research. Students will maintain mammalian cell lines throughout the semester and conduct experiments using their cells using techniques such as transfections, fluorescence microscopy, proliferation assays, migration assays, and transwell invasion assays. The end of the semester will be reserved for students to design and conduct their own cell biology experiments. Students must also enroll in Cell Biology (NS-247), the main course component. Keywords:Biomedical research, neuroscience, cancer, stem cells

Physics I covers the fundamental principles of physics by teaching classical mechanics, while emphasizing the correspondence to quantum physics. The topics will include the essence of measurement, properties of elementary constituents of Nature (particles and probability waves), mechanics (motion and its causes), and fundamental interactions. Special focus will be placed on general principles, such as the conservation laws (energy, linear and angular momentum, spin) and the superposition principle.

This is a Lab section for NS-204, Physics I Lab and students must be concurrently enrolled in both

This seminar is designed for Division III students studying topics in all fields of the sciences and students finishing Division II and preparing for Division III. The seminar will provide a collaborative environment for students working on independent projects. We will use a workshop format to generate ideas, critically read each other's work and provide constructive feedback and suggestions. Students will learn and practice skills to communicate their work in a variety of formats to a variety of audiences (including virtual and digital mediums).

What would it mean for age to be understood as an axis of power and a category of sociopolitical dynamics such as gender, race, or class? How does ageism or age-related injustice intersect with other forms of injustice? How does the idea of generations inform studies of sociology, history, literature, or youth-produced culture? What do critical studies of youth and age add to our understanding of education, antiracism studies, literature, ethnic studies, history, psychology, and the arts?

This seminar in social and literary studies of childhood centers and explores poetry written by young people, primarily from the late twentieth-century United States. We will consider young people as cultural producers, as poets in the present, and as writers crafting their own ideas and artistry. Readings in childhood studies, literary studies, and critical literacy studies will help frame these ideas in contrast to cultural conceptions of children as cultural consumers, as potential poets in the future, and as objects of adults' pedagogical ideas.

Make your projects move, spin, flap, and twitch. We will learn how to design and build moving sculptures using wood, metal, plastic, and found objects. This course will introduce terminology and components for transferring and adapting motion, from simple levers and cranks to gears, cams, and pistons. We will explore techniques for designing and fabricating parts and assembling them into functioning mechanical contraptions. All levels of experience are welcome.

Students will examine contemporary moral issues and the methods of philosophic thought and will discover the place and influence of philosophy in life today as they increase their ethical awareness and identify their own beliefs and values as well as understand the foundation(s) for those values. This course will provide an overview of the history of philosophical analysis of moral dilemmas arising in professional and public settings and enable students to develop independent project based study of an ethical issue and/or issue related to the common good.

The meaning of race has been scrutinized across philosophical traditions and subdisciplines. Philosophers have asked questions such as the following: What is race/what does it mean in contemporary societies? What roles does race play not only in social and political domains, but also in individual modes of embodiment, identity, and self-consciousness? How does whiteness exist as an unacknowledged norm in philosophical thinking and society, and how can this norm be critically reassessed and overcome? How are race, racialization, and racism phenomenologically experienced?

This course will use a natural science lens to explore sustainability with a specific focus on the food-water-energy nexus. We will use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as one framework of study covering the implementation of the goals on a global scale as well as efforts underway locally and regionally. Students in this class will read primary literature, complete case studies, work collaboratively and independently on sustainability projects and actively participate in small group and class discussions and activities.