Itai is working with Red Shift productions and Maren Waldman, a choreographer and dancer, to create a dance and spoken word performance focused on motion at different length scales. Thus far we have performed at the Nanoscale Informa lScience Education Network (NISE Net) 2009 meeting in San Francisco. We will also be performing at the 2010 Light in Winter Festival in Ithaca, NY.

At these workshops we bring together talks from researchers in the New York area as well as an additional keynote speaker. The rest of the time will be taken up by short (2 min.) presentations. These presentations give the audience a flavor for the research topic and techniques used to address the research problem discussed. The overall goal is to give the audience an overview of the type of research techniques being used and problems being studied in the New York area.

Previous key note speakers include:Uli Wisener, L. Mahadevan, Sid Nagel, Watt Web, Tom Whitten, Seth Fraden, and Eric Shaqfeh.

We are collaborating with middle school teachers at the Harlem Children's Zone to improve the science and math curriculum. This work is being done through the Cornell Center for Materials Research.

Itai Cohen MCed the 2007, 2008, and 2009 events which brought together Eggcellent Scientists and Eggineers to center city Ithaca.

Weekly tutoring is provided to young women in a local juvenile detention center. For more information, email Sharon Gerbode at sjg53@cornell.edu

Also, check out our blog page: http://cornellreach-lsg.blogspot.com/

We are helping to provide workshops for Middle School Science Teachers designed to support the teaching of physical science at the middle school level.  These workshops are directed by the Cornell Center for Materials Research.