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Photo: An action shot of a pumpkin smashing into the ground. Pieces of pumpkin fly from the impact as people standing a distance away react with joy at the smashing.
October 31, 2023
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Pumpkin Drop, Back by Popular Demand

After a three-year hiatus, the ever-popular annual CAS physics department pumpkin drop returned to the Metcalf Science Center October 27. Throngs of spectators watched from below as students pitched pumpkins from the center’s roof onto the plaza 70 feet below, to the crowd’s delight. But science is the point—the various-size vegetables are filled with different substances, from pudding to paint (the messier the better), affecting their rate and trajectory as they’re hurtled from above. Photo by Cydney Scott

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  • Cydney Scott

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    cydney scott

    Cydney Scott has been a professional photographer since graduating from the Ohio University VisCom program in 1998. She spent 10 years shooting for newspapers, first in upstate New York, then Palm Beach County, Fla., before moving back to her home city of Boston and joining BU Photography. Profile

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