STEM
Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…
Oakleaf Presenting at EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
Megan Oakleaf, associate professor at the School of Information Studies, is hosting a featured session at the annual conference of EDUCAUSE this week. Her talk is titled 鈥淔rom Passive to Active: The Impact of Libraries and Librarians on Increasing Student…
Professor Receives Grant for Ongoing Work in Particle Physics
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to support his ongoing work in medium-energy physics. Paul Souder, a world-renowned nuclear physicist, is using a three-year $1.2 million grant award from the U.S. Department…
New Cooling System Heats up Physics Research
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to support ongoing work in quantum information science. Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, is the recipient of a $230,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award…
Wang Selected for Junior Faculty Achievement Award
Assistant Professor Yang Wang has been recognized with the Robert Benjamin Junior Faculty Achievement Award, an honor that showcases the demonstration of excellence and originality in research. Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy presented the award at the School of Information Studies…
Dedrick, Stanton Receive NSF Funding for Smart Meter Study
Do people care how smart meters collect data about the electricity they use? That鈥檚 one of the questions a new National Science Foundation-funded grant will permit two School of Information Studies (iSchool) professors to explore in their project, 鈥淒ata Privacy…
Mueller鈥檚 Border Gateway Protocol Internet Research Funded by NSF
Research on vulnerabilities in the Internet鈥檚 Border Gateway Protocol in a study planned by School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Milton Mueller and postdoctoral researcher Brenden Kuerbis has received a National Science Foundation-funded award. The $338,664 grant is supporting the…
Caicedo Receives Faculty Research Award from Google
With the rapid increase of wireless technology and services, more companies and devices are competing for a limited amount of available space across the wireless radio spectrum. This is an issue that School of Information Studies (iSchool) assistant professor Carlos…
Advancing Convergence and Innovation in Cancer Research
The College of Engineering and Computer Science鈥檚 Biomedical and Chemical Engineering department will host 鈥淎dvancing Convergence and Innovation in Cancer Research,鈥 as part of the Graduate Student Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 19, in Link Hall, Room 105 from 1-2…
Lecture to Focus on Brain Imaging
The College of Engineering and Computer Science鈥檚 Biomedical and Chemical Engineering department will host 鈥淧hotoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Beating Optical Diffusion and Diffraction,鈥 as part of the BMCE Distinguished Lecture Series on Friday, Sept. 12, in 001 Life Science Complex, from…