He is currently a professor at the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
His mother is from Minersville PA. Fennie's work combines elements of physics and chemistry in order to invent new materials with desirable properties.
[2] "Throwing Rocks ..." is the title of the general audience, public talk that Craig has been giving ever since his unusual path to where he is today was revealed after being named a MacArthur Fellow.
Quoting Rodney Mullen, in skateboarding "... we fall and get back up, ... every fiber in him, tells him don't do it again ... this act of getting up again shapes us."
Craig argues that the feeling that overcomes us when we get a bad grade on a test is the same biological response as the skateboarder who fell, i.e., don't do it again, this hurts!