David K. Skelly is the director of the Yale Peabody Museum and the Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology in the Yale School of the Environment.
The illustration is from Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s microscope book, published in various languages in the 1760s. View full image
Thomas l. Lentz ’64MD
With the aid of some flat strips of bone, ivory, or wood plus a little mica and a sunny day the solar microscope would have helped eighteenth-century scientists observe the details of nature. View full image
Six months ago, with virtually no warning, college faculty and students around the world were dropped into the deep end of the remote teaching pool. While I think all of us yearn for the day we can get back in the classroom, we have improved virtual learning by mastering the finer points of Zoom, developing live interactives, and thinking creatively alongside our students. This experience has underscored for me how much in general we depend on technology to share wh