Mindula Wijayahena photographed holding a small vial.

PhD student Mindula Wijayahena works in a lab on groundbreaking research with Diana Aga from the Department of Chemistry. Together, they’re exploring how bacteria can help break down harmful forever chemicals for a cleaner, healthier future. 📸 Photographer: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki

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"Those bed materials, whether it’s sediment or hard bedrock contained within it, are the words, the stories of the history of the ice sheet—it’s a book of information down there that we want to read."

Jason Briner, professor and associate chair in the Department of Earth Sciences and GreenDrill project co-lead. Briner's team aims to collect bedrock samples from beneath the Greenland ice sheet to determine the last time it melted. The research is featured in an article in “Scientific America.”

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“I really appreciate the diversity of research that faculty and students in the Anthropology Department are conducting. It's great to hear about different projects happening locally and all over the world - one person may be studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda while another is researching the movement of ecological knowledge around the globe via the Transatlantic slave trade. Anthropological research is so varied and has so many opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.  ”
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