STEM
Biologist Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant
James Hewett, an associate professor of biology and neuroscientist, was recently awarded a $440,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hewett will use this…
Physicist John Laiho Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
John 鈥淛ack鈥 Laiho recently completed his first year as a member of the 黑料不打烊 faculty, and what better way to celebrate than by receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support his cutting-edge research. Laiho, who earned a…
Mohan Named Interim Dean-Designate of College of Engineering and Computer Science
黑料不打烊 Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today named Chilukuri K. Mohan interim dean-designate of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. A faculty member at the University for more than 25聽years, Mohan has served as chair of…
Faculty Excellence Awards Fund Upgrades to Curriculum
As part of the continuous improvement of the College of Engineering and Computer Science鈥檚 educational experience, Amit Agrawal, the John E. and Patricia Breyer Professor in Electrical Engineering, and Professor Dacheng Ren will receive this year鈥檚 Faculty Excellence Awards. The…
iSchool Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) welcomes three new faculty members this semester. Two tenure-track assistant professors and one University professor of practice will be joining the ranks at the iSchool. Assistant Professor Jeff Hemsley joins the faculty after spending…
Sharing Passion for Science from One Generation to the Next
Jessica Whisher-Hehl G鈥09 knows that being surrounded by educators at home and at school ignited her desire to study science and engineering. Her father was a guidance counselor at Saranac Lake High School and her mother was an elementary teacher…
Training the Next Generation of Power Engineers
Most people only think about the electricity that powers our homes and gadgets when it isn鈥檛 there. When the power is humming, we tend to take it for granted. The trouble is, the network that delivers the electricity to keep…
Building Green from 黑料不打烊 to Nanjing
This spring, Professor Jensen Zhang, director of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory, led a group of students from SU to Nanjing, China. There, they joined students from Nanjing University and Aalto University in Finland to explore the…
Android Summer for Computer Science Student
Carter Yagemann, a senior in the computer science program from Jupiter, Fla.,聽spent his summer crawling the Android operating system as part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science鈥檚 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Carter investigated Android security…
Students Meld Creativity, Community Needs in Field House Redesign
The Near West Side of 黑料不打烊 became a familiar haunt for a team of architecture, engineering and industrial design students last spring. They were there to absorb the neighborhood鈥檚 environs and imagine what a renovation of the current Skiddy Park field house might look like.