  
|
 |
  |
Student Science Journal |
A physicist, biologist and a chemist were going to the ocean for the first time.
The physicist saw the ocean and was fascinated by the waves. He said he wanted to do
some research on the fluid dynamics of the waves and walked into the ocean. Obviously
he was drowned and never returned. The biologist said he wanted to do research on the
flora and fauna inside the ocean and walked inside the ocean. He also never returned.
The chemist waited for a long time and noted down the observation: "The physicist and
the biologist are soluble in ocean water". (Courtesy: http://jokes4all.net)
Students of different branches of Science love taking potshots at each other. It’s usually
good clean fun, but in the rapidly progressing world of Science it is easy to lose touch
with branches other than one’s own and develop delusions about them. This can lead to a
strange xenophobia within the scientific community. Synthesis is designed specifically to
dispel any such feelings among Science students at Adelphi. Here you’ll find works in
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics right next to each other. Hopefully, we will also have
papers in Computer Science and Mathematics as well in the next editions.
Another important motive behind this effort is to showcase the work of Adelphi’s
Science students. It’s a pity that a lot of us spend hours and days writing intelligent, well
researched, and painstakingly proofread papers and the only readers end up being the
professor and (if the paper is lucky) a peer or a writing tutor. Synthesis is an attempt to
address this unhappy state of affairs.
We thank the contributors for their remarkable effort in producing such excellent papers
and their kindness in letting us reproduce them here. Dr. Lawrence Hobbie also deserves
our gratitude. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of this effort ever since we
tremulously suggested the idea of the magazine to him. Molly Mann is responsible for the
name of this journal which might otherwise have been disastrously named “The Scientific
Adelphian”.
We sincerely hope for more submissions from our hardworking peers for the Spring
edition of Synthesis.
Wendy Podany
Erin Hodson
Pranay Sinha
Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Department of Biology
Science Building, Room 103
Adelphi University
Garden City, NY 11530
p - 516.877.4200
f - 516.877.4209
This page last modified on March 12, 2009.
|
