Award-winning professor improves SMC’s chemistry labs

Marine Gaste, Staff Writer
September 5, 2012

In late August, Santa Monica College chemistry professor Deborah H. Schwyter received the Northrop Grumman/Marvin Elkin Chair of Excellence in Physical Sciences after submitting a proposal for purchasing equipment for use in her organic chemistry and biochemistry courses. Schwyter will be awarded $5,000... Read more »

SMC’s Drescher Planetarium looking to fill black hole

Roger Morante, & Fatou Samb
November 25, 2011

The passing of John Hodge, a former director of the John Drescher Planetarium in 2005, left the Santa Monica College (SMC) Astronomy Department short not only a director, but also a qualified technician. Hodge ran the uniquely domed planetarium, but now the task falls on faculty and outside contributors. “When... Read more »