The first time Sam Van Aken saw tree branches being grafted and grown onto other trees, he likened it to Frankenstein. Yet, when the process became a full-time fascination, the Syracuse University ...

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals ... Newberry and Gao chose to study artworks depicting single trees. Their selections, which they said spanned ...

Syracuse University Professor Sam Van Aken is the proud father of a single tree that grows 40 types of ... But yeah, it's overwhelming," Van Aken said. The art professor grew up on a farm in ...

Van Aken, an associate professor in Syracuse University's art department, used an age-old technique called grafting to attach branches from 40 different kinds of stone fruit onto a single tree.

The result: a single tree that bears 40 varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries. “It started as an art project. I wanted people to have this experience where a tree is ...

As “Dust in the Wind” played softly, mourners gathered Thursday to salute the short life of Berkeley, the Nash Square squirrel sculpture carved from a landmark oak tree — a symbol of steadfastness in ...