Josh Imhof | features editor As a kid, Connor McDonagh spent his days building spaceships and race cars out of Legos. At night, he would read textbooks about the solar system and look at the stars. When he was 9, he got his first telescope. “I remember looking into it. I remember looking at the moon,” he said. “It’s one of my fondest memories.” Now, … Continue reading Lunar mission brings Duquesne scientists’ passions to life
Naomi Girson | staff writer | Looking at the city skyline, the U.S. Steel Tower, the BNY Mellon Center and PPG Place light up with neon colors and constellations of office space glowing in the night. In an urban environment, this excessive artificial lighting during nighttime hours can cause light pollution, which makes the stars less visible to the naked eye. But for Dale Thomas … Continue reading Spaceburgh: Coming soon to a Market Square near you
Michael Marafino | Staff Writer 01/11/18 Space, the final frontier, has much left to be explored, and a team of Duquesne University’s Biomedical Engineering Program students are working to help scientists examine the heavens. The team has been chosen to participate in the NASA Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams competition (Micro-g NExT). The Duquesne students involved include freshmen Clare Flanagan, Tori Kocsis and Nicholas … Continue reading Biomedical engineering students shoot for the stars in NASA competition
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