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Power and Responsibility鈥擡thics In Engineering and Computer Science
鈥淲ith great power comes great responsibility.鈥 This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert聽Professor Dana Radcliffe聽says it is also a fitting principle…
Sport Management Professor Receives Grants to Study 2018 Winter Olympics Youth Viewership
With final preparations underway for the 2018 Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin Feb. 9聽 in PyeongChang, South Korea, Falk College聽Assistant Professor of Sport Management Jamie Jeeyoon Kim is researching the negotiation of motivation and constraints in young people鈥檚 decision making…
Falk Professor Receives Grant to Investigate Anaerobic Digestion
Despite a significant number of animals on smaller dairy farms in New York State and the northeastern United States, the vast majority of research on the benefits of anaerobic digester (AD) technologies only relates to larger livestock farms. That is…
Neutron Collision Discovery a “Textbook Changer” says PBS NewsHour
Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at the College of Arts and Sciences,聽recently spoke with PBS NewsHour about the聽 discoveries that came from the detection of two neutron stars colliding. The event gave researchers new information regarding…
Humanities Degrees Are Still Necessary
Gerald Greenberg, associate professor of Russian and Linguistics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Arts and Sciences, talks to the Washington Post on the importance of a humanities degree. 鈥淭he value of a college education…
Physicists at Forefront of Multinational Experiment
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continue to make inroads on the world stage. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) group in the Department of Physics recently hosted the 85th Large Hardon Collider beauty (LHCb) Week in Lake Placid,…
See What is ‘The Most Spectacular Fireworks in the Universe’
When two neutron stars collided, scientists called 鈥渢he most spectacular fireworks in the universe.鈥 This crash also answered many previously unknown questions, especially the birth of heavy metals such as gold and platinum.聽 Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of…
Professor Duncan Brown on Clash of Neutron Stars
Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics,聽talks to The Wall Street Journal about the creation of heavy metals such as gold and platinum forged in the collision between two neutron stars which . 鈥淕old is forged in the nuclear…
Cosmic Collision Leads to New Breakthroughs
Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics 聽talks to NPR about the groundbreaking discovery of the collision of two neutron stars, revealing that these strange smash-ups are the source of heavy elements such as gold and platinum….
How 黑料不打烊 Physics Professor Duncan Brown Helped Discover a Cosmic Collision
Go in-depth on the day when Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, helped discover the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of gold, platinum and other heavy metals.