Editor’s Note: In the Feb. 17, 2019, edition of the (Worcester) Telegram & Gazette‘s “Faculty Forum,” Nichols College Professor of Environmental Science Prajjwal K. Panday, Ph.D., addresses the topic of climate change. He answered the newspaper’s question: “What can be done by the average person to reduce our negative impact on the environment, and decrease […]
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Nichols Students Map College’s Emergency Telephone Locations
Nichols College Environmental Science Professor Prajwal Panday‘s students used an app called Epicollect5 to collect data on Nichols land use and land cover. For this exercise, they focused on mapping the locations of all blue emergency telephones around campus. “A map of this sort would be helpful for the Nichols College Public Safety Office as […]
NASA Earth, Mashable Interview Prof. Mauri Pelto About Rapid Retreat of Glaciers
NASA Earth and Mashable interviewed Nichols College Professor Mauri Pelto, Ph.D., vice president for academic affairs, about his research into the rapid retreat of glaciers. New islands are being left behind by rapidly retreating Arctic glaciers https://t.co/G0fKUdfALs pic.twitter.com/F1MtvFrhW8 — Mashable Australia (@mashableAU) September 6, 2018 “Snow Swamp” on Lowell Glacier https://t.co/XHBdd8I5WY #NASA — NASA […]
Nichols Students ‘Dig Into’ Wetlands Research
Dr. Prajjwal Panday, Nichols assistant professor of environmental science, brought his Physical World science students to the holding pond behind Fels Student Center and Shamie Residence Hall Thursday, August 30, for fieldwork. The group is working with University of Rhode Island (URI) junior Ehren Messinger and his URI Assistant Professor Soni Pradhanang on a project […]