Monthly Archives: January 2024

Percy & Ginny

John F. Lindner January 25, 2024 2:57 PM

A chill went through the spaceflight community last week as NASA reported that it had lost contact with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. Delivered to Mars underneath the Perseverance rover and intended as a 5-flight 30-sol tech demo, it had vastly … Continue reading →

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Summer of ’19

John F. Lindner January 19, 2024 10:24 PM

Due to the pandemic, the summer of 2019 was regrettably and unexpectedly my last Wooster summer research program, but the team was amazing. Niklas Manz and I obtained Sherman-Fairchild funding to work with Margaret McGuire ’20, Yang (Fish) Yu ’21, … Continue reading →

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Chemistry Does General Relativity

John F. Lindner January 8, 2024 10:16 PM

I hired Kiyomi from Hawai’i for our NSF REU summer program in spring 2020 amidst fears of the pandemic that eventually postponed the program two years. When she finally arrived in summer 2022, I had already retired from Wooster, where … Continue reading →

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