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Bill Gates discusses the research of physics Professor Tom Donnelly and Brendan Folie ’11.


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his mental math skills. He was the first mathematician ever to be interviewed on the program. Clinical Professor of Engineering Carl Baumgaertner, who earned a Silver Star for heroic service during WWII, described his wartime experience and its mean- ing for his family on NPR’s “The Story” on Nov. 10, 2010. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Erika Dyson gained no- toriety for her course, “Ghosts and the Machines,” which made Daily Beast’s Hot College Courses list. The class explores occult mediumship, modern media and technology in Europe and the United States.


Standing Out at National Competitions HMC’s strong tradition of high achievement in national competitions contin- ued. Thirty-nine HMC students faced more than 4,000 competi- tors in the 2010 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competi- tion and seven seized spots in the Top 200 individual category. Only five other, much larger schools had more than seven stu- dents in the Top 200. Three juniors received an “Outstanding” rank, given to only eight teams out of 2,775 entries worldwide at the 2011 Inter- national Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Interdisci-


plinary Contest in Modeling. In addition to the Outstand- ing team, one team earned a Meritorious designation (top 15 percent) and three earned an Honorable Mention (top 45 percent). Mathematics major and puzzle


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Mebane ’12 helped Team USA emerge victorious at the World Puzzle Championship held in Poland during October 2010.


Space Program Perspectives During the final weeks of the last U.S. shuttle mission, HMC’s veteran astronauts George “Pinky” Nelson ’72 and Stanley Love ’87 were interviewed by na- tional media about their perspectives. Stanley Love ’87 spoke with Scientific American about being in space and the future of space- flight on the eve of the launch of the penultimate space shuttle mission, STS-134. During his conversation, Love talked about how his experience in the HMC Bates Aeronautics Program and with instructors Howard and Iris Critchell influenced his career choice. Love flew in his first spaceflight with the crew of STS-122 Atlantis and logged more than 300 hours in space. Nelson flew three space shuttle missions during the 1980s.


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