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Dr. Jamie Reaser has a tattoo on her arm that reads, “she lived a magical life.” She came up with the idea in 2024 while visiting Peru and working with the Shapibo medicine people. She wrote several poems during her visit, including one that included the line now tattooed on her arm. “I decided to […]
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The Museo Galileo in Florence — dedicated to the famous astronomer, Galileo, and home to one of the world’s major collections of scientific instruments — hosted our very own Professor of Biology Dr. Anne Allison during her year-long research sabbatical on scientific literacy and philosophy. On Oct. 4, she gave a presentation about what living […]
Continue ReadingWhat is a Ph.D.? A talk by PVCC Adjunct Professor of Biology Dr. Corina Marziano, organized with the Scrubs Club and the Science Club, addressed this question. At noon on Sept. 28, following PVCC’s 50th anniversary photo event and during the fall semester trial of the new Charles T. Baber Leadership Development Program, three students […]
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PVCC’s science majors have access to a one-of-a-kind research opportunity. While capstone research courses are most commonly available to juniors and seniors at four-year universities, students in the natural sciences at PVCC are required to complete SCI 299: Supervised Study in Science, usually during their second year of study. In this course, students devise and […]
Continue ReadingNot everyone enjoys learning and studying science. To some students, the idea of being in a science class with no hands-on learning can seem grueling and uninteresting. The lab in Biology 107, Environmental Science, is not like that at all. “Bio107 presents the basic concepts of Environmental Biology in order to gain a better understanding […]
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Samuel Huff, staff writer It is no secret that students transitioning from high school to college life have their fair share of challenges that they are destined to meet, but what if one of your first classes of your first semester was one of PVCC’s most difficult courses? For students with a desire to enter […]
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