First-year IB students begin essay process
Josephine Rozzelle, Sports Editor
November 29, 2017
WEB EXCLUSIVE Juniors in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme began the extended essay process this week, choosing their subject area and posing an initial question they will continue to research in the coming months. The 4,000-word research paper is one component of the IB Programme...
Sheep heart dissection forms window to physiology
India Thieriot, Assistant Copy Editor
January 20, 2016
A handful of members from the physiology class huddled around tables and popped on their goggles while others shrieked at the sight of the slimy, gray heart being cut in half. Honors physiology students dissected sheep hearts to tie together their brief unit on the human heart. “They were performing a dissection of the sheep heart because it’s pretty much the exact same size as the human heart,...
Learning through a new lens
India Thieriot, Assistant Copy Editor
October 7, 2015
CES third graders put on their goggles and gowns as they prepared to cut away at a giant, slippery retina and iris. “It’s gross but at least I finally get to dissect something,” Taylor Jones said. The little girls annually partner with physiology students to dissect cows’ eyes. “This...
Coed classes expand opportunities
October 1, 2014
Camilla Bykhovsky Sports Editor The yellow school bus filled with grey skirts and khakis that has been driving the 10-block stretch between Convent and Stuart Hall every afternoon, shuttling students to coed language classes, now runs between every class period due to the expansion of coed class off...
Students view open-heart surgery
January 25, 2011
Stephanie Gee Reporter Physiology students had a rare opportunity on Wednesday to not only observe live open-heart surgery, but to view to procedure side-by-side the surgeons. Students arrived at Kaiser Permanente at 6:50 a.m. Before going into the operating room, they were given a lecture ...
Mackenna Moslander and Elise Vulakh
June 8, 2020 • No Comments
WEB EXCLUSIVE In order to follow the guidelines of the Department of Public Health, Convent held both virtual and individual in-person ceremonies for the Class of 2020. The...
Students, faculty gather for 133rd annual Prize Day
June 3, 2020
June 3, 2020
We may never understand, but united we stand
June 2, 2020