Here is one way to know that your department produced a physics major - a real physics major. A recent graduate sent me two python programs. The first one calculates the value of of Pi to however far ...

Scissors. Purple glue sticks. Paper designs to cut out and fold. Chris Lowry teaches advanced geology college courses at UB. But some of the tools he brings to class evoke the joy of grade school.

Imagine this: With a simple flash of light or heat, an unassuming piece of paper folds itself into a crane and, as the light pulses, flaps its paper wings in flight. Though the concept is still in its ...

When I was a student (circa the late 1970s) and when I started out as an engineer (circa the early 1980s), the printers we used were dot-matrix or line printers of the continuous feed variety. The way ...