Chris Benner ’12, like countless other American students, has declared F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby...
Section: Research
Can You Wrap Your Head Around M2-Branes?
Fall 2011
Michael Beard, the aging wunderkind physicist, was worried. “He liked to think he was an...
Number Sense? Count On It from Birth
Fall 2011
Illustration: Robert Neubecker When Melissa Libertus was in high school, she loved math—and was so...
Landlocked
Fall 2011
Location, location, location—the popular adage implies a property’s geographical site is the most important consideration...
Art and Amnesia: Solving Recovery’s Puzzles
Fall 2011
Back in 2007, Lonni Sue Johnson was a successful artist and illustrator living in upstate...
Giving Voice to Those with HIV/AIDS
Fall 2011
The most effective HIV prevention programs are tailored carefully to their intended audience, concludes Rachel...
Seeing the Eye's Not-So-Simple Subtleties
Fall 2011
Long referred to as the window to the soul, the eye also plays an important...
Reclaiming Hart Crane's 'Splendid Failure'
Fall 2011
Here is how John Irwin would like you to make acquaintance with the greatest poem...
Hathi Trust
Spring 2011
hathitrust.org Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant—a creature known for its incredible power and...
Putting the Focus on Quantum Matter
Spring 2011
Scientists in a new institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy are working to...
At the Frontier of the “Terahertz Gap”
Spring 2011
Physics and Astronomy Professor N. Peter Armitage is quick to point out that many basic...
Data-Scope: The Best, Bar None
Spring 2011
Imagine a tool that is a cross between a powerful electron microscope and the Hubble...