Click through to read our interview with Bay School alumnus Boris Cotom, class of 2019, now pre-med in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley.
Bay Alumni Story: Boris Cotom, Class of 2019
Astrophysics, Bow Ties and Chemistry: The ABCs of David Friedlander-Holm
Watch out, Mr. Broudy! There’s a new bow tie in town. Meet David Friedlander-Holm, the physics-loving, bow tie-wearing science teacher who joined Bay’s faculty this school year. For David, teaching science – and especially physics – has always been his dream. “I literally raised my hand in my high school physics class and said I …
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Testing Tums: A Chemistry 2A Lab Examines the Effectiveness of Antacids
Raul Betancourt explains a recent experiment. In this experiment, students react a base with its opposite -- an acid -- until it is neutralized. Students tested different type of antacids in order to figure out how much base each contains, and thus which would be the most effective! The students can tell exactly when the …
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Neutrino What? Alumna’s Accomplishment a “Pretty Big Deal”
We asked Meg Millhouse ’08 a few questions about a recent accomplishment: getting her undergraduate thesis published in the American Journal of Physics. As Senior Signature Projects instructor Dave Wang put it, “This is a Pretty Big Deal.” Check out the abstract or rent the article to read online here. In simple terms, what is …
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Experiences: Astrophysics Students Visit the Aardvark Observatory
The students in Miles Chen’s astrophysics class enjoyed a trimester immersed in studying the stars, which culminated in a recent field trip to the Aardvark Observatory. Two such students, Sam and Izzy ’14, shared about their experience at and after the class trip to the Aardvark Observatory. “We went to Gary and Cynthia Bengier’s,” Izzy …
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