Royal Gazette Sends Love Our Way

The Royal Gazette featured the upcoming SIAP 2024 season in an extensive article today that nicely reviews our past work and goals for this May and June - thanks Sarah Lagan for a great story! We are already getting inquiries about volunteering (email Michael.jarvis@Rochester.edu) and school visits, and have assembled a strong team of US, UK, and Bermudian archaeologists with a wide range of different skills and interests. 

Alongside the preparations for digging, University of Rochester engineering students have been analyzing the 17th century daub we found last summer and have come up with a fairly close replication formula through multiple tests.  They presented their findings today at the 2024 UR Undergraduate Research Expo and did a great job (admittedly I'm somewhat biased...my daughter Katie was co-PI on the project).  

A huge thanks to Katie for tackling the esoteric challenge of reverse-engineering Bermudian daub for her Mechanical Engineering class and talking Charlie and Will into going to Bermuda to research this, and to Renato Peruccio and Ann Robinson and UR Undergrad Research for funding their travel on very short notice. It is truly a joy to work at an R1 university that has really cool expensive tech, bright students itching to do research, and an institutional willingness to invest in them!

With the daub secret sauce recipe now cracked, maybe we can re-finish Settler House in St. David's using an empirically derived formula.

Poor little guy!

I'm also proud that their research poster was among the most accessible and understandable presentation within a room that featured studies of Flame-rumped tanagers, mutant mice, iminopyridone nickel complexes, myeloid skewing, dopaminergic signaling in cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, "the Rights of Poop," maternal milk and infant fecal IgA, and tracheal submucosal gland biology - all worthy research, I am sure, just not very accessible to Mere Humanist Professors like me.