Autumn at Cyanotype workshop

Summer 2024

The 2024 STEMLA Summer Program took place between July 6 and August 3, 2024. 

During the Summer of 2024, we were joined once again by Selby Hearth (Geology), José Vergara (Russian) for our Human and Environmental Impacts of Energy course cluster. During our first in-person summer, Selby and José spearheaded the first iteration of this course cluster. They then expanded it to a 360 course cluster,  Energy Afterlives, in Fall 2023. In this third iteration, Selby and José spearheaded our visit to the No. 9 Coal Mine in Coaldale, PA, as well as the Silver Creek Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Remediation Site in New Philadelphia, PA. At these sites, Fellows were able to bring their classroom conversations to life by venturing 1,600 feet into a mountain that housed a now decommissioned anthracite coal mine and testing the acidity of the water at the Silver Creek AMD Site. 

This summer, we were joined by scholar, artist, and author, Warren Cariou who gave our inaugural STEMLA Summer Lecture and led the STEMLA Fellows in a cyanotype workshop. 

Summer 2024 Program Theme:  Human and Environmental Impacts of Energy

2024 Courses: 

 

View the Scalar book created by STEMLA Fellows in their Summer 2024 courses here. 

Fellows posing in train that takes them into the coal mine.
Fellows organize plant matter in preparation for their cyanotypes.
Lisa and Autumn at Cyantotype workshop hosted by Warren Cariou 1 / 8
Jen works with Fellows in lab
Director and Professor of Biology, Jennifer Skirkanich, leads Fellows in genotyping samples 2 / 8
Selby and Jose pose for a selfie at the No. 9 Coal Mine
STEMLA Summer Instructors Selby Hearth and José Vergara at the No. 9 Coal Mine 3 / 8
STEMLA Fellows working on poster in geology course
Claire, Arlene, and Chelsea work on posters in Geology of Energy and Extraction 4 / 8
Bugscapes
Measuring the vibration that bugs would feel with a homemade bugscape device. 5 / 8
students outside mapping geologic time
Outdoor lab mapping geologic time 6 / 8
adrianna at cyanotype workshop
Adrianna at cyanotype workshop 7 / 8
Warren Cariou explain cyanotype process
Warren Cariou explains the cyanotype process 8 / 8