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Effects of Virgin Coconut Oil on Oral Bacteria
Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is a natural oil extracted from coconuts, preserving the natural value of its components. VCO's main components have been shown to inhibit the growth of bacteria or kill the bacteria. The mouth is a place that houses a diverse ...
Oct 12, 2022, 12:01pm EDT
Tuning Resonators to Explore Quantum Spins
Molecular nanomagnets are tiny magnets whose spin states can be controlled by electron spin resonance. Molecular nanomagnets can be used as quantum bits, qubits. Unlike a classical computer that uses bits to store information in a state of 0 or 1, a qu...
Oct 11, 2022, 10:31pm EDT
Summer Internship: Gabrielle McCabe '24 works for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Over the summer Gabrielle McCabe '24 was the costume shop management intern at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. This festival puts up professional musicals and plays every summer and is located at DeSales University. Her tasks included tracking b...
Oct 11, 2022, 9:57pm EDT
Summer Internship: Gabrielle Klausner shadows at two different Occupational Therapy practices
This summer Gabrielle Klausner '24 spent her time shadowing at two different Occupational Therapy practices. One at the Children's Specialized Hospital Outpatient Center in Union, NJ, where she learned about OT in a clinical setting. Gabrielle also sha...
Oct 10, 2022, 7:43pm EDT
The Allentown Environmental Advisory Council and Promise Neighborhoods
Larissa Pasco '23 works with Mayor Tuerk to develop a sustainability plan on energy inefficiencies. Larissa worked on two interconnected internships this summer, one throgh Muhlenberg's Office of Community Engagement and another through the Allentown E...
Oct 9, 2022, 1:27pm EDT
Exploring the communication barriers that people with invisible disabilities face when seeking medical care
Rebecca Zickerman '24 spent her summer administering a survey that designed was this past spring and analyzing the data and summarizing it in a research paper. The goal was to determine if there are specific health communication differences that exist ...
Oct 8, 2022, 9:24am EDT
"A Manifesto in Question Form": The Liminal Relationship between Book and Body
By researching the creative artist Lin Hixson (and Goat Island, one of her former performance groups) through an in-depth study of her academic literature and devised performances, Hope Austin '25 will apply theoretical aspects of her process to my own...
Oct 7, 2022, 11:51am EDT
Long Lived the Queen
An English and Theatre double major and member of Muhlenberg's Emerging Leaders program, Castillo writes about her study abroad experience this falll: Just a day after arriving in England, I'm eating a delicious meal at a Chinese restaurant in the sop...
Sep 30, 2022, 12:44pm EDT
One Student's Job Shadow Experience With a Local Therapist
By: Grace Oddo '22 Justin Billich '24, a psychology major and music minor, shadowed Henry Gursky '71, a psychologist who owns and operates his own practice in Allentown. This opportunity was through the Career Center's Shadow Program, which allows stu...
Mar 24, 2022, 1:15pm EDT
79 Named to Academic Honor Roll
To be named to the Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must be a sophomore or higher in class standing and carry at least a 3.40 cumulative grade-point average. In addition, eight Mules were named to the Academic All-Centennial team for earning spot...
Dec 2, 2021, 4:31pm EST