SAS Voyage Blog

For weeks, more than 500 Global Studies students prepared for the Semester at Sea arrival in Shanghai, China. Elizabeth Inman is a Life Long Learner on the Spring 2010 voyage. Like the other students, she listened to the lectures, read the materials and watched the movies. But unlike the others, Liz lived in the French Concession of Shanghai until she was 12 years old.

Magnetic levitation sounds like either science fiction or magic. But for the 42 Semester at Sea voyagers who participated in the field program put together by Professor Thomas Guenther , magnetic levitation  is a high-speed train that uses magnetic fields for suspension, propulsion and guidance.