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Why Oxford was feeling the effects of wildfire smoke, and what it could mean for the future of air quality

(06/21/23 2:00pm)

The week of June 5 started strangely for residents of Ohio, as a strange haze descended on the state, becoming most evident as the sun began setting and turned to a fiery orange instead of the typical soft yellow. The cause of Ohio’s, and much of the northeastern United States, sudden shroud of smog was the wildfires raging just north in eastern Canada.






Can the science be separated from the scientist?

(04/29/22 7:00pm)

As a first-year biology major, I have learned about many different scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries in my introductory bio classes. Moreover, to my surprise, I also recently learned about a scientist in my art history class. That scientist was Louis Agassiz, a 19th-century biologist and geologist who was born in Switzerland but worked in the United States.