L&S News  Author: Kai Wen Li

Back-to-school can feel frantic — not just for students but for professors, too. L&S faculty members offer some insight into the ways they ready themselves for classes.

As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, two undergraduate students spent the summer trying to get a more accurate look at Venus through work that redefines what research means to them.

As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, sophomore Liz Sanchez Garcia investigates how solar panels and their changing light conditions can be a good thing for plants, renewable energy and career aspirations.

Concrete has been used as the material of modern cities, but Siddharth Menon investigates how just one material can reveal the larger ripples of environmental and political trends in ordinary lives.