Author: Sarah Baker

  • Keep the Secrets, But Share the Magic

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    Melissa Jarmel With another academic year underway and Halloween at our heels, what better time to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? In this two-part play, the Hogwarts students that we came to know so well through J.K. Rowling’s seven book series now have kids who are attending the same school of witchcraft and…

  • Kelvin Droegemeier, Trump’s Pick for Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy

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    Aileen Marshall Kelvin Droegemeier, November 19, 2014. Credit: Wikimedia Commons On July 31 of this year, Trump nominated Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist, for Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.  This position has been vacant for 19 months since Trump took office, an unprecedented length of time. At this time, Droegeimeir…

  • Word of the Month

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    Dakota Blackman Photo Courtesy of Mark Wilson, Getty Images hearing [heer-ing] noun The process, function, or power of perceiving sound; specifically : the special sense by which noises and tones are received as stimuli a : Opportunity to be heard, to present one’s side of a case, or to be generally known or appreciated b…

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch, Vol. 1 Edition

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    Jim Keller Following the Venice International Film Festival (August 29 – September 8, 2018) and the Telluride Film Festival (August 31 – September 3, 2018), the Oscar race is unofficially (or officially, depending on with whom you speak) underway. In many ways, the last Oscar race took place during the year of the woman. For…

  • Culture Corner

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    Camila Cabello’s Havana Wows Pop Music Bernie Langs   Photo: Sony Music Entertainment The first time I heard the pop song Havana by Cuban-American recording artist Camila Cabello was on a radio tuned to one of my 20-year-old daughter’s stations. I was immediately floored by the the great groove and the unusually complex, smooth, and…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Fair Warning Megan Kelly Cold Spring Harbor, NY Where the trail ended there stood a handful of trees in a field, one seemingly impaled by the fragment of another. Under the chainsawed end of fragment there was a glinting light. Upon closer inspection, the light revealed itself to be a glass hemisphere, and when viewed…

  • September Cover

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  • Theatre Tips

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    Melissa Jarmel One of the best ways that I know how to take myself out of lab life is to see live theatre, and I’m lucky that New York City offers an overwhelming number of options to do this affordably (though Hamilton ticket prices may have you fooled about this). One of the aspects I…

  • Natural Expressions

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    Ascensus Volume VII Launch Event Ascensus: The WCM Journal of Humanities will be hosting a launch party and exhibition for volume VII of their publication this month. Ascensus is a student-led organization that promotes the humanities by collecting and publishing works from members of the Tri-Institutional community. The launch event will feature select pieces from…

  • Culture Corner

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    Visiting Michelangelo’s Sculptures in Florence Bernie Langs One of my personal goals during a late May 2018 visit to Florence, Italy was to view as many sculptures by Michelangelo as possible. Here is a rundown of my thoughts on some of the works that I saw. The Deposition at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo and…