Tori Wiese, a senior from Marquette, stands in front of Machu Picchu in Peru where a class session was held before she was flown back to the United States during the onset of the Pandemic. Going forward, the college is working to figure out how to reinstate study abroad programs in a safe manner (Photo courtesy of Tori Wiese).
Study abroad programs were some of the most profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Limitations on travel have changed the landscape of study abroad programs and halted others altogether.
“They changed primarily because of the travel restrictions in the world, so international students coming to the United States, many of their countries are on lockdown, the airline industries have reduced their flights to get to and from the united states so for many students it has been difficult,” said Cristen Casey, the director of Albion College’s center for international education.
The movement is so rapid it creates an audible pop above the water and produces bubbles.
Males of the species Dulichiella cf. appendiculata are only tiny, roughly the size of a sunflower seed, but 30 per cent of their body weight comes from its one huge claw.
The engorged claw shuts in just 93 microseconds, moving at around 38 mph. Human eyes take about 150 milliseconds to complete the process of blinking.
Males of the species Dulichiella cf. appendiculata are only tiny, less than a centimeter long, but 30 per cent of their body weight comes from one huge claw. (pictured bottom right of image, the large claw)
Tiny Crustacean Redefines Ultra-Fast Movement
The world’s most technologically advanced robots would lose in a competition with a tiny crustacean.
Just the size of a sunflower seed, the amphipod Dulichiella cf. appendiculata has been found by Duke researchers to snap its giant claw shut 10,000 times faster than the blink of a human eye.
The claw, which only occurs on one side in males, is impressive, reaching 30% of an adult’s body mass. Its ultrafast closing makes an audible snap, creating water jets and sometimes producing small bubbles due to rapid changes in water pressure, a phenomenon known as cavitation.
Faculty heard two proposals from professors in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Wednesday's virtual meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences' faculty governance body.