Amazing things can happen on the Web.
Alan Scott, physics, helped a student in another country win a trip to the Antarctic. He said the Brazilian government would award the trip to the PUC student who wrote the best paper about the Antarctic region. Scott said he sent back a list of suggested resources on the area. The physics department has been using the Internet as a teaching tool for many years. Scott's class, Introduction to Geology and Soil Mechanics, is one of their Web-based courses.