The "father of modern sedimentology," distinguished University alumnus and instructor, Francis J. Pettijohn passed away in Glen Arm, Md., on April 23. He was 94. Recipient of numerous international awards...

Door decorations outside of Professor of Chemistry George Barany's office speak volumes about his values. His children's drawings add color to the ivory wall on the right. Black-and-white clippings of...

The 1980s were a decade of big science and political upheaval. The combination of free-flowing funds for scientific research and the collapse of the Cold War political order led to the establishment of...

Earth formed like a snowball collecting material over about 100 million years, said Professor Claude Allegre of the University of Paris, before the first of his two lectures on Thursday. Allegre spoke...

When a pair of University faculty members speak, people listen. People like Uncle Sam, the Minnesota Legislature and Cornell University. All three institutions -- and others across the country -- will...

Increased collaboration among schools, social workers and families might help failing or mistreated K-12 students, said Cynthia Bailey-Dempsey, an assistant professor of social work at Columbia University. Bailey-Dempsey...

Rooftops, like red currants, dot a computer screen. With a swift mouse click, Howard Veregin, a University assistant professor of geography, changes the aerial city scene into a crayon-colored map. The...

Associate professor of music education Claire Wehr McCoy rolled her chair over to the piano in her Ferguson Hall office and played a few bars of Bach while describing the similar structure between the...

Millions of years speed by within minutes in a movie created in a University laboratory. The movie depicts changes in the Rio Grande Rift, an area in New Mexico. Hot springs that had existed for millennia...

Photos of smiling participants in the Student Project for Amity among Nations sit on Professor Theofanis Stavrou's file cabinet. A collection of theses written by SPANners after their time abroad rests...