December 2024

Please see the obituary for Steve Jenkins – select the News menu and then Obituaries
Peter Hofman met with many of our classmates who served in the Peace Corps or similar domestic programs after graduation. From those discussions, comes a new page in the class Community Service Project, the Peace Corps Stories page. Be sure to read about the life impact and adventures of our D’68 Peace Corps volunteers.

Scroll down to learn more about this month's featured image from the James Webb Space Telescope and to see more site updates.

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This illustration shows a galaxy forming only a few hundred million years after the big bang, when gas was a mix of transparent and opaque during the Era of Reionization. Data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show that there is a lot of cold, neutral gas in the neighborhood of these early galaxies – and that the gas may be more dense than anticipated. Webb observed these galaxies as part of its Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey a few months after it began taking observations in 2022. CEERS includes both images and data known as spectra from the microshutters aboard its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph). Data from CEERS were released immediately to support discoveries like this as part of Webb’s Early Release Science (ERS) program.

The featured images on this and other site update pages are taken from the James Webb Telescope images page. Click here to see many more images on the Webb Space Telescope page.

Recent Site Updates

December 2024

Topics Updated

Obituary, Other update

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October 2024

Topics Updated

Class Projects, Meeting Minutes, Obituary, Reunion Report, Travelogue

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