Students in the Extreme Polar Training course, a two-week freeze-fest held near the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island, learn how to live in Earth's coldest conditions. Still, nothing really ...

Visual artist Andrea Wollensak, professor of art and director of Conn’s Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, and computer scientist Bridget Baird, professor emerita in computer science and ...

The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery of the South Pole. (See "Cold Fires Up Arctic Adventurer," fall 2007.) Amundsen is one of my heroes. In ...