Format: Profile

Into the storm
The raging storm was spawning tornado after tornado. It was May 3, 1999, and Reed Timmer and three other college meteorology students watched beside Interstate 44 in Oklahoma while most of the tornadoes vanished as quickly as they formed. But then one...
Faculty profile: Jackie Villadsen, Physics & Astronomy
Professor Jackie Villadsen, physics & astronomy, is helping to answer one of science's burning questions: Are there Earth-like planets in far-off solar systems? To find out, she and her research team are studying bursts of radio waves from stars like the red...
Finding the sweet in the bitter
We sometimes think of human trafficking victims as just that: victims. But they can also be victors. That’s certainly true of Donna Lynne Hubbard, honored with a PACT Freedom Award this year for her remarkable work in the antitrafficking field. Her story...
Reading, writing, and a whole lot more
Despite the many challenges of the past year, Autumn Dodson, WC ’18, BU ’21, was an unstoppable force. More or less simultaneously, she wrote the dissertation for her Doctor of Education at Brenau University and a children’s book, My Teacher Looks Like...