Co-authored by Eva Tuecke (’21). Until recently, IMSA’s science curriculum consisted of four semester-long courses taken in the sophomore year: SI-Physics, SI-Chemistry, SI-Biology, and Methods in Scientific Inquiry. This structure…
As course selection for the 2019-2020 school year promises developments across all subjects, the largest revisions are expected to occur among science opportunities. The changes reflect the department’s efforts to…
IMSA has decided to give half of the Class of 2020 a new, experimental biology class. Traditionally, all IMSA sophomores take four required, semester-long science courses during their sophomore year;…
Methods of Scientific Inquiry (MSI) is a required class for all incoming IMSA sophomores. The class lets students design their own experiment, run it, and then convey their results through…
Last Friday, the Cassini spacecraft went out in a blaze of glory as it slammed into Saturn’s atmosphere at over 70 thousand miles an hour, bringing its two-decade-long mission to…
“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” proclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking in November. This notion is shared by other scientists and entrepreneurs…