A gift from Arun Varshneya, Alfred University emeritus professor of glass science, and his wife, Darshana, will support the University Conference on Glass series as well as an annual lecture on glass ...

RIT Glass sees much interconnectedness across campus, and is taking full advantage of the inimitable landscape. With a strong intersection of technology, art and design at RIT, assistant professor ...

William LaCourse, emeritus professor of glass science engineering in Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering, delivered the first annual Varshneya Lecture on Glass Thursday morning, Oct. 16.

Glass science has evolved into a multidisciplinary field that interrogates the unique structural, chemical, and optical properties of glass materials. Owing to their inherent disorder and ...

The international honor recognizes the trustee chair professor’s contributions to optical glass and infrared materials that ...

Researchers tested biodegradable glass beads in the lab, in soil, and even in mice to see how the materials broke down over time. Reading time 2 minutes Glass can be cleaned and reused many times, but ...

The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...

Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new ...

But many questions remain about the prized material. Where was glass first fashioned? How was it worked and colored, and passed around the ancient world? Though much is still mysterious, in the last ...