When Jacob Smith finds himself in deep water with Matt Finkenbinder, associate professor of geology, he’s not in any trouble. It just means the junior environmental engineering major and his advisor are taking some time to connect outside the classroom, sharing their passions for fly fishing, conservation and the northeastern…
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Meet the Snake Robot Designed by Wilkes Students That Might Change How We Study River Flow
by Patty DevivaMeet Ormr the snake robot – the ingenious brainchild of two junior mechanical engineering students who were tasked with solving a dilemma in the spring of 2020: is it possible to follow water flow through fractures in a mine pool?
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Although the face-to-face commencement ceremony scheduled for May 16 has been postponed until September, Wilkes University students in the Class of 2020 are still officially graduating this weekend. And there is a lot to celebrate about these wonderful students – both undergraduate and graduate — who persevered to complete their…
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Wilkes University Professor of Geology Offers Perspective on New Zealand Volcanic Eruption
by Web ServicesWilkes University’s Sid Halsor, a professor of geology at Wilkes University with expertise in rock-forming processes beneath active volcanoes, offers insights about the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island volcano and why predicting its eruption is challenging. New Zealand Volcanic Eruption is a Grim Lesson By Sid Halsor, Ph.D. The…
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Ellen Weber practically lives in Wilkes University’s Cohen Science Center, processing lake sediment samples she collected last summer in Newfoundland, Canada. “It was the coolest thing I’ve ever done,” Weber says of the climate research trip with Geology professors Sid Halsor and Matt Finkenbinder. The first day, they collected water…