This is the first article in a two-part series discussing innovative teaching techniques in college physics classes. Today's installment will focus on interactive programs instated at other ...

While teaching large physics lectures at MIT, Walter H. G. Lewin radiates enthusiasm. "And now, I’m going to blow your mind," said Lewin before giving a lesson about electrical circuits that seem to ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Walter H.G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at MIT. Now, he has emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute ...

Robyn Williams: Does putting fun into teaching physics work? Wally Lewin at MIT is convinced it does, hanging from pendulums and making big bangs. He now has 100 of his lectures on the internet...and ...

Original Wu-Tang Clan member GZA (also known as “The Genius” or by his given name, Gary Grice) will visit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in May to school students on how art and outer ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials say they will welcome a member of famed rap group Wu-Tang Clan to campus in May for the school's ongoing speaker series featuring hip-hop artists. The ...