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Avi Rubin loses his poker hand as students look on in amazement

Intersession 2020

Poker class bet wins big

Published Jan 30, 2020

Nearly 250 students registered for the class, which had lectures focused on strategy, Machiavellian maneuvers, and how to calculate odds

Senior awarded Churchill Scholarship

Published Jan 30, 2020

Vinay Ayyappan will study cancer imaging techniques in the laboratory of Cambridge radiologist Ferdia Gallagher

Butterfly Tacos y Tortas hosts pre-opening tasting

Food and culture

José Andrés brings Butterfly to campus

Published Jan 29, 2020

New Levering Hall dining station serves authentic Mexican street cuisine developed by the celebrity chef

A student takes notes in a field notebook

Intersession 2020

Digging into Earth's history

Published Jan 28, 2020

In geology fieldwork Intersession class, students hike the mountains of the Mojave Desert to record and categorize rock formations to better understand millions of years of planetary history

Intersession 2020

Mission: Impossible (burger)

Published Jan 27, 2020

Intersession biology class all about fake meat ends in low-stakes, fast-paced cook-off to test students' recipes for meatless burgers

Darcie Draudt teaches Star Trek and Diplomacy Intersession class

Intersession 2020

Interstellar diplomacy

Published Jan 24, 2020

Students analyze the ways in which the 24th century tactics of the Starfleet Command provide a useful lens for understanding international relations today