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As the men's ultimate team at Haverford prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary this weekend, we look back at the history of the club sport that defined so many Fords' college experience.
A gallery of historic photos of the team, courtesy of Matt Lowenthal '12, appears on the Haverblog.
The Ultimate Team (back when they were known as Stone Age Disc) in the Spring 1990 Sectionals playoff tournament.
Jonathan Wilson, assistant professor of biology and environmental studies, recently published a paper outlining an extensive evolutionary history of silica biomineralization—the absorption of silica from soil—in plants, proving that this process is much older than previously thought.
SEM image showing the silicified epidermis and vasculature of primitive land plant Selaginella courtesy of Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.