September 2008
In This Corner
Gossamer Wings and DNA
Tracking 2 million years of butterfly evolution in the Arctic Circle
People
Barefoot Dentistry
Doug Leung trains villagers to provide care in the poorest regions of the world
September People Notes
Ask The Professor
What happens to lost e-mail?
This month’s faculty expert, Samuel Guyer, assistant professor of computer science, responds:
Super Vision
Karen Panetta, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has created a technology that could revolutionize imaging in fields as diverse as security and medicine
Immigration as Blackmail
Many countries use threats of population movements to achieve their goals, and it’s not just the bad guys
First in Class
The freshmen arriving on campus this September are diverse—and smart
The Light Fantastic
Researchers use silk to create green optical technologies with potential applications ranging from bacteria detection to new solar cells
A Very Curious Mind
New biography charts the life of Tufts professor Allan Cormack, inventor of the CAT scan and Nobel laureate
Subprime Blues
A Summer Scholar charts the repercussion of the housing crisis in Somerville
A Tale of Two Cavemen
Two spelunkers who discovered extraordinary caverns are the subject of Neil Miller’s new book
The ABCs of the Class of ’12
We’ve got everyone from a principal cellist to National Merit Scholars (55, in fact) to a Dairy Princess
Palindromes and Chromosomes
A new clue to the origin of genomic instability that leads to cancer
Eye of the Beholder
Study shows that “gaydar,” like other snap judgments, is more often right than wrong
Barely a Scratch
Skipping invasive tests, veterinary detective work led to one happy polar bear
Green Top Ten, Redux
Tufts is called one of 10 universities that “get” green by the Sierra Club for the second year in a row
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