Join us at the Science, Math, and Technology Symposium, this Thursday, May 16, at 10:30 am, with special guest and keynote speaker Captain Lloyd Brown. Dr. Brown is Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the US Naval Academy; before joining the Naval Academy as a professor in 2004, Dr. Brown was a nuclear trained surface warfare [...]

The window for submitting applications to the highly competitive and prestigious Research Science Institute (RSI) at MIT is now open. The deadline for submissions is 11-January-2013 (receipt deadline not postmark deadline). This program allows the student to engage in an immersive research environment that essentially resembles graduate school. All of this is built on the [...]

Annually tremendous resources are being directed toward treating and finding a cure for cancer. However, another strategy to address this deadly disease is to study the causes and develop tactics that lead to prevention. This is the primary objective of the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC). Deerfield Academy is currently in conversations with CPIC [...]

Deerfield was proud to honor Dr. Kerry Emanuel ’73 with the 2012 Heritage Award at school meeting this week. Dr. Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at MIT and leading expert on hurricanes, gained recent recognition for his work in the areas of global climate change and tropical cyclone activity. In 2006, he was named [...]

Believe it or not, now is the time to start thinking about what science-related summer programs you would like to participate in. Last year Deerfield Academy had students learning and working as part of a variety of programs and laboratories. Some examples include: researching in a molecular biology lab exploring possible new therapies for cancer; [...]

If you have ever been to the ER, chances are you have been administered morphine to reduce pain. Have you ever wondered what morphine is and why it mitigates pain? Morphine is the main alkaloid of opium, obtained from the milky fluids of the poppy plant (papaver somniferum). Like many useful chemicals found in plants, [...]

Deerfield Academy had a strong showing at this year’s Regional Science Bowl! The overall record for the day was 10 wins and 4 losses. We fielded two teams composed of:

Deerfield has formed its first ever Science Bowl Team! We are gearing up for the Massachusetts Regional competition on the 3rd of March. If you are interested in joining, please come to our meeting in the Koch – Room 107 at 1pm this Sunday. There are no prerequisites for the team, only a desire to [...]

Chlorophyll f Chlorophyll, the photosynthetic molecule that has helped make Earth an oxygen rich planet has been known to exist in four varieties: chlorophyll a, b, c and d.  In science, 2010 was notable as researchers discovered another version found in Australian stromatolites (knobby ocean dwelling rocks and algae) that has been termed chlorophyll f.