Archive for September, 2014

The Knowing the Future theme launches a new course on “Knowing What We Know” in Spring 2015. “The theme includes a broad range of classes that teach and discuss the tools that are used to make predictions in disciplines from Mathematics to Population Biology to History,” says theme leader Dr. Daniel Phillips, […]

The Athena Cinema has scheduled an encore screening of Particle Fever on Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. Nuclear physicists Dr. David Ingram and Dr. Justin Frantz will introduce the film and provide a short Q&A following the screening. “After we sold out the event at the 41st Annual Film […]

The Frontiers in Science Lecture Series presents Dr. Arthur Fine on”What Was Einstein Thinking?” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, in Memorial Auditorium. Fine is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. The name Albert Einstein is synonymous with science and scientific genius. Time Magazine made him […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Sept. 21, 2014 After preparing all the lectures for the week-long short course on limnogeology, Dr. Cecilia Benavente from the University of Buenos Aires and I took a tour of the city on a bus called “Buenos Aires BUS”. There are 25 bus stops of […]

By Lori Bauer In his new book In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, Dr. Eric LeMay gives readers an opportunity to shoot some asteroids while joining him in a contemplation of Copernicus and our fascination—sometimes addiction—with ourselves. Play along with LeMay at On Cosmology. The game is modeled […]

Dr. Eric LeMay, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction, reads from  his latest book,  In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, on Oct. 6 at Marshall University. The Huntington News reports: “LeMay has taught writing at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago. He is on the faculty of the […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Fabio Marchesoni of the University of Camerino  “Active Brownian Motion” on Friday, Sept. 19, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Self-propulsion is the ability of most living organisms to move in the absence of external drives, thanks to an “engine” of their own. Realizing […]