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2002-03
Vol. 65, No. 2

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Mastoshi Koshiba
Alumnus Wins Nobel

Mastoshi Koshiba '55 (PhD) became the fifth Rochester graduate to win a Nobel Prize when he was named as a cowinner of the 2002 prize in physics.



Calculus student and professor Am Integral Major (or Can Calculus Be Cool?)

by Jenny Leonard

The number of undergraduate mathematics majors has nearly triple in the last five years. And many of those majors are choosing to take the "boot camp" version of calculus.


Wayne Knox Focusing on the Future
By Jonathan Sherwood

Wayne Knox '79, '84 (PhD) brings multiple perspectives to his role as the new director of the Institute of Optics



I Fantasmi

An excerpt from Tourmaline,the latest novel by Joanna Scott, the Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English.


The Optimist Reigns Again
By Sally Parker

Cohost of CNBC's Kudrow & Cramer, Larry Kudrow '69 is back on top of his game as a financial news analyst.


Bakari Kitwana Hip-Hop Intellectual
by Jeffrey Marsh

"In the landscape of what shaped our generation and touched everyone, nothing has been felt more definitively than hip-hop," says Bakari Kitwana '88, '90 (MA), '90W (MAT), a leading scholar of the social and political issues facing African Americans.


 



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