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ISchool Professor Lee McKnight Contributes to Pew Research Report on Future of Artificial Intelligence
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Lee McKnight has contributed his opinions on the changes coming to the artificial intelligence (AI) field in a recently published Pew Research Center report titled 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans.鈥 Published…
Concept to Design Library 鈥楥ritical Catalog鈥 Earns ASIS&T Best Paper Proposal Award
A paper describing a proposal to create a new type of library catalog鈥攐ne that, in the way it uses metadata, acts as an 鈥渁ffirmative action鈥 system to advocate for diversity and expose library users and readers to resources from populations…
Growing the Science of Sustainability: Molecular Biologist Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 Expounds on Importance of GMOs, Science Literacy
Nina V. Fedoroff 鈥66 has built a career on defying the odds. From working her way through college as a single mother to being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons (bits of DNA that hop from place to…
Petroleum Experts to Donate MOVE Software Licenses to 黑料不打烊
Members of the Department of Earth Sciences will gain new insights into Earth鈥檚 crust, thanks to a licensing agreement between 黑料不打烊 and Petroleum Experts (Petex), a leading developer of optimization software for the oil and gas industries. The Scotland-based…
Invent@SU Team Wins Share of First Prize at New York State Department of Health Aging Innovation Challenge
Millions of people around the world with mobility challenges have trouble standing up from a chair or couch. During the Invent@SU program in summer 2017, communications and rhetorical studies major Kalia Zizi Barrow 鈥17 and mechanical engineering major Ruby Batbaatar…
Can Isik Named Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly has announced that Can Isik, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will become interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), effective Jan. 1, 2019. Isik succeeds Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg,…
Physicist Applies Nanotechnology to Detect Protein-Protein Interactions
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences hopes to improve cancer detection with a new and novel class of nanomaterials. Liviu Movileanu, professor of physics, creates tiny sensors that detect, characterize and analyze protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in blood…
Dahlberg to Conclude Tenure as Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg today announced she will soon conclude her tenure as dean of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS). Beginning March 1, 2019, Dahlberg will assume the role of vice chancellor and provost at Texas Christian…
Air Force Funds ECS Research to Prevent Bleeding Deaths
Despite advances in medical technology, millions of people around the world still bleed to death after being shot or experiencing other traumatic injuries. Many of those deaths occur before the victims ever reach a hospital. To address this, Assistant Professor…
Chemistry Alumnus Named to Forbes’ 鈥30 Under 30鈥 List
Michael Ruggiero G’14, G’16 combines experimental, theoretical techniques to study molecular movement Forbes magazine has recognized an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) for his contributions to the study of molecular movement. Michael Ruggiero, who earned master鈥檚…