On May 25, 2008, NASA, in collaboration with the University of Arizona, successfully landed the Phoenix Mars Lander near the north pole of Mars.  The purpose of this mission is to study the geology of the red planet, to monitor its weather, and to measure the properties of what might be ice. 

It's final exams week and students around the world are frantic. Juiced-up on caffeine and sugar, they study voraciously to end this semester with a bang.

When I recently walked into the library, I was surprised to see that almost every chair was filled with a student, nose glued to his laptop and a Venti-sized Starbucks cup in hand.

Every shallow breath I drew in scraped the back of my throat.  My legs ached with each thud on the dusty path.  I was only on my third lap.  I kept thinking, ‘I really am not an athlete.’  How can people be good at jogging?

It didn’t come as a surprise to me that the U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the majority of votes from Americans living outside of the U.S.

In recent times, I’ve heard many of my colleagues discuss global perspectives on health, education, climate change and U.S. politics. Colleagues at Cornell Weill Medical Center, for example, organized a one day symposium in collaboration with the New Y...