Entries for January 2010

Faculty members across disciplines cite numerous benefits of faculty-mentored undergraduate student research, including the ability to probe into a complex problem, to think and work independently, and to assess the results of their work. Le Moyne’s long-standing commitment to such research spans a variety of academic departments – from physics, chemistry and biological sciences to English, psychology and foreign languages – and is underscored by several recent developments.

Defining a scholarly field that officially goes by the name of ‘decoherence’ is a daunting task for anyone, but Associate Professor David Craig of Le Moyne'sPhysics Department manages to succeed, illustrating some major issues in his field with a few well chosen examples.