Dance of Scales
Itai is working with Redshift productions and Maren Waldman, a choreographer and dancer, to create a dance and spoken word performance focused on motion at different length scales.
Outreach
Finding Your Scientific Voice
Scientific Voice 10 minute Promo from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
This six-session workshop exposed participants to techniques for presenting themselves in public. Students used improvisation, physical and vocal exercises, and multiple presentation assignmentsto help them find their scientific voice when speaking to fellow scientists, funding agents, and the lay public.
Science Lives
Recently, Itai Cohen caught up with Ellen Ferrante to discuss what it is like being a scientist. The interview is available on the LiveScience website, which has partnerships with MSNBC and Google News. ScienceLives is designed to showcase scientists and engineers who are
producing cutting-edge research in their fields.
http://www.livescience.com/culture/physics-motion-itai-cohen-sl-100610.html
Families Learning Science Together
In collaboration with the Cornell Center for Materials Research and the Ithaca Public Library, members of the group have been participating in the monthly series Families Learning Science Together. Themes range from "the science of bridge building" to "junk box experiments." Each month a new set of activities is available for children and parents to engage in together. Stop by the Ithaca library and ask about when the next event is scheduled.
High speed video of Japanese Taiko drums
Prof. Cohen interviewed on Soft Matters
Interview with Prof. Cohen on Soft Matters by Cornell Graduate students Katie McGill and Jesse Silverberg.
Iron Physicist
Based on the successful Iron Physicist contest held at the Exploratorium, the Cohen group ran a similar contest for the Cornell physics graduation. We split the graduates into groups and gave each group an ingredient. Each group had one week to come up with a physics demo that uses that ingredient. View the movie above to see what they came up with.
The video can be found on Cornell's website here.
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