Tagged as “physics”

9/1/2016
When a NASA mission to the asteroid Bennu launches this month, Ithaca College Professor Beth Ellen Clark will be in charge of experiments that could reveal whether the roughly 500-meter-wide celestial body will collide with Earth in the next century.
Clark is the mission asteroid scientist...

3/8/2016
Updated March 16 at 3:00 p.m.
Read more about Ithaca College's 3-D printing lab in the Ithaca Voice: "Pancakes to prosthetics: 3-D printing the future at Ithaca College"
For most college students, pancakes are a fluffy vehicle for maple syrup...

9/4/2012
ITHACA, NY — Dante Lauretta — professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of NASA’s first mission to bring back asteroid samples for study and analysis—will visit Ithaca College on Thursday, Sept. 13, to give an overview of the project. Free and open to the public, the talk will begin at noon in the Center for Natural Sciences...

11/15/2011
ITHACA, NY — What do you get when you cross an Ithaca College experiment in quantum levitation with Comedy Central? In the case of the “Colbert Report,” you get a cup of ice cream suspended in mid-air.
Associate Professor of Physics Matthew C. Sullivan was featured on the November 9 episode of the show, helping host...

10/28/2011
ITHACA, NY — Time lapse photography and video shot by an Ithaca College faculty member will be seen in an upcoming episode of “Fabric of the Cosmos,” a four-part series for “Nova” being aired by PBS. Tom Nicholson, an associate professor of television-radio in the Roy H. Park School...