When the invitation arrived a few months ago from Professor Quanyan Zhu of New York University asking me whether I would be interested in gi...

After spending multiple weeks in Europe this past summer, as a Visiting Professor in Sweden, and also speaking and attending plus co-organiz...

We recently returned from NYC where, this past Friday, my husband and I attended the 103rd Anniversary Awards Banquet of the Radio Club of A...

I recently spent a few days in New York City and stayed at our favorite hotel on the Upper West Side, The Excelsior, which is across from th...

As I was growing up in Yonkers, New York, I read The New York Times at every opportunity. While I was a student at Yonkers High School and ...

Wherever you may have been this weekend , it was hard not to notice the excitement surrounding the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa. I w...

The New York Times had a wonderful article on the third World Science Festival that begins tomorrow in New York City. The article, The Cosmo...

Michael M. Grynbaum writes in The New York Times about another plan by Mayor Bloomberg and his NYC administration to ban automobiles on the...

I received this past week a lovely letter from Professor Brian Greene and Ms. Tracy Day, the Co-Founders of the World Science Festival (WSF)...

The NY Times article that appeared yesterday had the terrific and terrifying title, "Bridge Fire Reveals the Fragility of New York'...

I am getting ready for the World Science Festival , which takes place in New York City, June 10-14, 2009. There will be a gala to open up th...