Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.
They receive millions in funding from national foundations, leading to unique research opportunities for students.
They’re intense, passionate, innovative, determined and demanding. Explore their accomplishments here, read recent faculty news articles or search the faculty directory.
“Connecting Science and People Through Storytelling: A CS Writing Community to Develop, Preserve, and Broadcast Scientist Narratives,” Team: Aurora Pribram-Jones (Leader), Camille Avestruz, Tyler Engstrom, Jennifer Heemstra, Lydia Kisley, Roman Kogler, Kerstin Nordstrom, Will Pfalzgraff, Shahir Rizk, Rory Waterman, Christopher Whidbey, Tim Atherton.
This is a multi-institution collaborative award to record and promote personal narratives from real scientists, some focus will be on underserved populations. Much of the grant period will be devoted to developing and improving writing meant for a popular audience amongst the participants, and demystifying other aspects of popular writing such as publishing. An anthology of writing will be published at the conclusion of this project. Some writing may end up as seeds for larger individual book projects.
Harada, A. B., Thackray, E., and; Nordstrom, K. N. (2022). Silo flow and clogging in the presence of an obstacle. Physical Review Fluids, 7(5).
Beck J., Burton J.C., Kamela M., Kuchera M.P., Lovell A.J., Nordstrom K., Tenzin T., Ziffer J. (2021). Reflections on Physics Education and Communication with Tibetan Monastics. Frontiers in Communication (6), 221.
Cai, G., Harada A.B., & Nordstrom, K. (2021) Mesoscale metrics on approach to the clogging point. Granular Matter 23(69), 113.
Harada, A. B., & Nordstrom, K. N. (2020). Gravity-Driven Flow and Clogging in the Presence of an Intruder. In I. Zuriguel, A. Garcimartin, & R.C. Hidalgo (Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow (pp. 365-371). Springer.
Nordstrom, K. (2024) Interviewed about the science of ghost hunting for BBC World Service (Unexpected Elements program).