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Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study enigmatic domes and basins in the bedrock of the Western Desert of Egypt. The structures occur in remote areas and have been largely unrecognized and unstudied. Recent high resolution satellite imagery has made it possible to study these structures.

 Hamilton Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury spent several days in August near Los Alamos, N.M., teaching NASA's latest group of astronaut candidates how to do geologic field work and mapping.

Kiltmaking methods have remained essentially the same for over a century. Making a kilt will put you in touch not only with Scottish tradition but with a tailoring and hand sewing tradition that has been almost entirely lost as we begin the 21st century. Barbara Tewksbury, professor of geology and kiltmaker, has teamed up with legendary kiltmaker Elsie Stuehmeyer to create a book that teachers the traditional kiltmaking methods that Elsie learned 50 years ago as an apprentice and kiltmaker with the renowned firm Thomas Gordon's of Glasglow.