Tidbits: Asteroids, Genocide Prevention, Studying in Costa Rica
ASTEROIDS
Associate Professor of Astronomy Darby Dyer and Ronald Zissel, the longtime astronomy lab director, now retired, have had asteroids named after them. 7272 Darbydyar and 6949 Zissel orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Read more
STUDY IN COSTA RICA
Sustainable development in a community setting is a goal of a new MHC study-abroad program outside Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, beginning in 2009. Read more
GENOCIDE PREVENTION
Gerald Caplan, a leading Canadian authority on genocide and genocide prevention, was this year’s scholar-in-residence at the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives. Read more
