Boston College has established the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health to track efforts to control pollution and prevent pollution-related diseases that account for an estimated 9 million ...
McKim Observatory, 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. McKim Observatory is an excellent example of a late 19 th-century American observatory. Built in 1884, it retains much of ...
Since the mid-1960s the observatory has expanded and grown. Dr. John Stull expanded and built many of the telescopes and buildings currently in use. Dr. David Toot, professor emeritus, was the second ...
and disposal The Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College and an international team of researchers are launching a study of the hazards plastic products pose to global human health ...
Connecticut College is located off Rte. 32 in New London, CT. The Olin Science Center and the Olin Observatory are near the main campus entrance. At the top of the hill that forms the main campus ...
McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...