Two of my students have been getting attention for an original senior thesis they did for Multimedia. Calen Henry and Jacob Karsmeyer created a mod for Half-Life 2 to explore game physics. You can get the mod and read their essay on the history of game physics on the web site the created, Half-Life: Havoc. As of today, Sunday, April 13th they are ranked 5th on Mod DB. Kotaku has also blogged their project which seemed to have started a long thread about whether one can trust downloads not to have viruses (and some comments about the writing.)