September 16, 2024 by
A&S News
A&S researchers were featured on the national science program CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks for summer fieldwork that took them two kilometres deep underground, 40 kilometres up high in the Earth’s stratosphere, and back down to Earth once again, to a Greek island that’s home to a mysterious Roman statue.
- Department of Physics postdoctoral fellow Madeleine Zurowski has been helping install dark matter detectors underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, as part of a project called SuperCDMS, an international collaboration that is researching the nature of dark matter. (Clip begins at 8:29.)
- Working with the Canadian Space Agency, Department of Physics professor Kaley Walker sent a massive balloon — 30 stories tall and 800,000 cubic meters in volume — on a high-altitude transatlantic flight from Sweden to Nunavut, to measure stratospheric gases. (Clip begins at 26:21.)
- Following their discovery of a missing limb from a famous Roman statue, Department of Classics associate professor Sarah Murray and her archeological team — this time with the help of Department of Art History assistant professor Philip Sapirstein — to Porto Rafti, Greece with drones, to make 3D models of this mysterious centuries-old monument. (Clip begins at 32:31.)