Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the summer 2025 edition of art/sci. Read more from this issue. When David Gerdes interviewed to be chair of the University of Michigan’s physics ...

David Gerdes, PhD, became dean of Case Western Reserve University's College of Arts and Sciences in March, bringing interdisciplinary accomplishments as a researcher, educator and leader to a campus ...

CLEVELAND, Nov. 18—Case Western Reserve University President Eric W. Kaler and Provost Joy K. Ward announced today that David Gerdes, a renowned physics scholar and department chair from University of ...

University of Michigan Astronomy Prof. David Gerdes led a team of physicists to discover a new dwarf planet called 2014 UZ224 this July. The discovery was finalized earlier this week. According to his ...

Look out, Pluto. A new celestial object discovered by University of Michigan astronomers could be the cool new dwarf planet. Located more than 90 times farther from the sun than Earth, the object — ...

The last time David Gerdes saw the sun get blotted out, he was 15. "If you didn't know what was going on, it's easy to see why people were terrified of eclipses," said Gerdes, now 53 and a physics and ...

Scientists in Michigan have found a new dwarf planet in our solar system. It's about 330 miles across and some 8.5 billion miles from the sun. It takes 1,100 years to complete one orbit. But one of ...