Physics

Mason receives teaching award (The Norman Transcript)

12 May 2008

Bruce Mason, OU associate professor of physics, was recently named the 2008 Longmire Prize winner.

Joseph Egan, Lawyer Who Fought Nuclear Waste Site, Is Dead at 53 (New York Times)

12 May 2008

Mr. Egan, a nuclear engineer-turned-lawyer, led Nevada?s legal campaign to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

A billionaire's sweet purchase turns to 'Vinegar' (USA Today)

12 May 2008

In vino veritas? Patooie. Fakery born of greed has infested the wine trade pretty much since the first grapes were fermented. But as Benjamin Wallace illustrates in The Billionaire's Vinegar, his splendid account of an international wine scandal of recent vintage, it was some wealthy collectors in the 1980s and 1990s who really got hosed.