Tag: research

Chris Young ’11 at the Saving Places Conference

The Center for Historic Preservation partially funded Chris Young’s (’11) trip to the Saving Places Conference in Denver, Colorado. The following are his thoughts from the conference:At the beginning of February, I was granted the opportunity to speak at the 2011 Saving Places Conference in Denver, Colorado. I received my invitation over winter break and […]

Chemistry and Historic Preservation: A Collaborative Research Project on Bricks and Mortar

The blog Between the Cracks details two undergraduate students’ work as researchers partaking in the Summer Science Institute program at the University of Mary Washington. Sarah Smith, majoring in Chemistry, and Chris Young, majoring in Historic Preservation, spent the last 8 weeks of the ten week program researching and testing brick and mortar samples from […]