STEM
Bend Or Break? ECS 101 Students Test Wood Bridge Designs
Designing a wood bridge is one thing.聽Actually building it knowing a series of 19-pound weights will be placed on it is another. Teams of聽first-year students from the College of Engineering & Computer Science in ECS 101 had about a week…
黑料不打烊 Bioengineering Alum Invents No. 1 Mouthpiece For Snoring
Anyone who has ever tried to sleep near a person who snores knows how maddening it can be. However, that frustration is nothing compared to the health consequences the snorer faces. Snoring disturbs sleep and can eventually develop into sleep…
Costello Staniec Named Chair Of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor Andria Costello Staniec聽has been selected as chair of聽the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the聽College of Engineering & Computer Science. Costello Staniec鈥檚 teaching and research are focused on applied environmental microbiology聽and engineering education. She holds a bachelor鈥檚…
Exploring Fluid Dynamics in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has grown beyond the gaming world and is increasingly being used for a variety of applications鈥攊ncluding education. Researchers in聽Assistant Professor Melissa Green鈥檚聽Flow Visualization聽Lab聽in the College of Engineering and Computer Science are developing a way to apply it to…
Nangia Awarded Access to Specialized Supercomputer
Assistant Professor Shikha Nangia聽in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and her research team鈥攇raduate students Flaviyan Jerome Irudayanathan and Nandhini Rajagopal鈥攈ave been awarded access to the Anton 2 supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to advance their research of…
Soundarajan Named SIAM Science Policy Fellow
Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan聽has been named a聽Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)聽Science Policy Fellow based on her interest in expanding participation in computer science among youth in rural areas. The SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program helps early career researchers…
Driscoll Named Fellow of AAAS
Charles T. Driscoll,聽University Professor of Environmental Systems and Distinguished Professor in聽Civil & Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science,聽has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS…
University Awarded $1.2 Million to Develop New Energy Saving Technology
黑料不打烊 researchers have received $1,200,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 Advanced Research Projects Agency鈥揈nergy (ARPA-E). SU will partner with SRI International, a nonprofit research center, to develop a low-cost, high-accuracy sensor platform that accurately detects human…
SU, FBI Host Gathering of Stakeholders Involved in Biosecurity Response
The University鈥檚 Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), Washington, D.C., sponsored a recent workshop on campus that brought together researchers, local, state and federal law…
Classification Researcher to Headline 黑料不打烊 Symposium Dec. 4-5
黑料不打烊 Symposium continues its yearlong look at 鈥淏elonging鈥 with a visit by a leading expert in classification science. On Monday, Dec. 4, Melissa Adler, assistant professor of information and media studies at Western University in London, Ontario, will discuss 鈥淐onsequences…