<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/0523-cis.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Using chemistry to solve archaeological mysteries</title><author>Francie Wharton '25 and James Helicke</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>05/23/2024 11:12:44 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Using resources from Skidmore's Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences, Leo Parra ’24 was asked to help try to solve two archaeological mysteries during his senior year at Skidmore.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/0528-cis-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Leo Parra ’24 analyzes a sample in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences."/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/0523-cis-leo.jpg" alt="Leo Parra '24 in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences. "/></image><caption>Leo Parra '24 analyzes a sample in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences.</caption></item>