When Wilson College resident Karen Wang ’14 woke up one day and got out of bed, she heard a suspicious crunch beneath her feet. She looked down and saw a cockroach scrambling away with its body half-squashed.
When Princeton astrophysics professor Edwin Turner and Harvard astronomy professor Abraham Loeb traveled to a conference in Abu Dhabi last year, they attended a guided tour of Dubai. Neither expected that this trip would mark the birth of a new idea that may revolutionize modern astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Forbes dining employee Steve Nathan’s work on food doesn’t stop at the brick building on Alexander Street: He’s also bringing food to our cell phones and the Internet. Nathan has started a nonprofit organization named Nutrienz, focused on increasing awareness about nutrition and diet using mobile and social network technology.
“Flying” carpets, once an image of myth, fantasy and science fiction, may soon be the innovation of the future, thanks to electrical engineering graduate student Noah Jafferis who has developed a sheet of plastic material that can propel itself forward and backward without touching the ground.
Benjamin Griswold IV ’62 and his family have gifted the Center for Economic Policy Studies with a substantial endowment, the University announced on Monday. Founded in 1989 by economics professor Alan Blinder ’67, the center has committed itself to supporting research and conducting seminars on the many intersections of economics, business and government.
