STEM
iSchool/Center for Digital Literacy Awarded National Leadership Grant
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and its Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) have been awarded a National Leadership Grant for $190,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).聽 The two-year grant, titled 鈥淚nvestigating Self-Determination Variables in Summer…
Endowed gift expands neuroscience program in The College of Arts and Sciences
Sandra J. Hewett appointed inaugural Bishop Professor Beverly Petterson Bishop 鈥44 and Charles Bishop 鈥42, G鈥44 graduated from 黑料不打烊 in 1944, she with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematics, he a master鈥檚 degree in chemistry. They went on to earn…
McKnight, Rotolo honored by Technology Alliance of Central New York
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members Lee McKnight and Anthony Rotolo received awards at last night鈥檚 Celebration of Technology Banquet held by the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY).
SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 黑料不打烊 $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF鈥檚 flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…
黑料不打烊 Industrial Assessment Center awarded $1.5 million to support Department of Energy initiative
The 黑料不打烊-Industrial Assessment Center (SU-IAC) has been awarded $1.5 million over five years to support the Department of Energy鈥檚 (DoE) Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) program to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency and to help them…
Nicholson delivers opening colloquium at MIT
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicolson delivered the opening colloquium for the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a visiting professor.
Addressing the challenge of persister cells in bacterial infections
How antimicrobial peptides may offer an answer to challenging problem Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and member of the 黑料不打烊 Biomaterials…
SU physicist aids in discovery of predicting breaking points in disordered solids
In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered structure makes such predictions a more daunting task. A collaboration of…
Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant
Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…
Patent awarded for 鈥榤ethod and system of controlling airfoil actuators鈥
黑料不打烊 has been awarded a patent for the development of a 鈥淢ethod and System of Controlling Airfoil Actuators.鈥 This research will lead to greater maneuverability options for wing design on airplanes and is being considered for applications to wind…