STEM
Sustainable Success: SU-IAC Recognized for Third Consecutive Year
A group of engineering students in the 黑料不打烊 Industrial Assessment Center (SU-IAC) earned third place at the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute鈥檚 (NYSP2I) Research and Development student research project competition this spring. This marks the third year in…
iSchool, Time Warner Create ‘Data Day’ for Local Students
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and Time Warner Cable have joined forces to create 鈥淒ata Day,鈥 an event targeting 黑料不打烊-area middle and high school students where they will explore the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. 鈥淒ata Day鈥…
Bhatia Receives 2015 WEPAN University Change Agent Award
On June 11, Meredith Professor Shobha K. Bhatia was honored at the 2015聽WEPAN Change Leader Forum as a University Change Agent. WEPAN, which stands for Women in Engineering ProActive Network, confers its University Change Agent Award in honor of an…
Physicist Awarded Grant to Study Physical Cell Biology
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to study how the shape and motion of individual cells mold biological tissues into three-dimensional shapes. M. Lisa Manning, associate professor of physics, is part…
Ph.D. Student Jackson Receives Two Prestigious Fellowships
Corey Jackson鈥檚 summer schedule is a full one. The doctoral student at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) has received two prestigious fellowships that will keep him busy over the next few weeks while helping him fill out his future…
Physicist Awarded Grant for Quantum Computing Efforts
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to support his ongoing work in quantum information science. Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, has received a three-year, $900,000 grant award from the Army…
Sloan Foundation Funds Expanding Smart-Energy Device Privacy Study
The Sloan Foundation has awarded funding to expand the efforts of two School of Information Studies (iSchool) researchers who are looking at the issue of data privacy regarding smart energy-reading meters鈥攁nd now, additional smart home devices. A foundation award of…
Simons Foundation Funds Physics, Mathematics Researchers
Four professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have received major grant awards from the Simons Foundation, a global organization advancing research in basic science and mathematics. M. Cristina Marchetti, the William R. Kenan Professor of Physics, is the…
University Integral to Advanced LIGO Success
This week鈥檚 inauguration of Advanced LIGO facilities in Richland, Wash., and Livingston, La., is a potent reminder of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 long-standing importance in the international astrophysics community. For nearly 25 years, the University鈥檚 participation in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave…
Varshney Plenary Speaker at 40th Anniversary of IEEE Conference
Pramod K. Varshney, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was the plenary speaker at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 in April. On its…