Dr. John Cairns, Embers: Warm Hearth Village, Fall 2006. (http://www.warmhearth.org/pdfs/Fall 2006 embers.pdf)

Meet Blacksburg's Dr. Doom, The Roanoke Times, Sunday Sept. 17, 2006. (http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/columns/journal/wb/xp-83064)

Of Stars and Stardust, Virginia Tech Research Magazine, 2000. (http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2000resmag/editorial.html)

Cairns joins Elite Society, The Virginia Tech Magazine, Fall 1999. (http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/fall99/news.html#news7)