STEM
High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns
For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn鈥檛 just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school鈥攕he was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll鈥檚 environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science,聽using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…
Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World鈥檚 Greatest Extinction
James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled 鈥淚nitial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.鈥
iSchool Helps High School Students Build Cybersecurity Skills
It’s the watchword of the 21st century: cybersecurity. Recently, the iSchool played host to an event that聽gives high school students a taste of what it’s like to build cyber security defenses.
Biochemists Link Synthetic Compound to Hunger-Hormone Production
New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new target by screening a library of roughly 1,600 small molecules for potential disruptors. Because the…
Student Venture Chosen for Prestigious Medical Device Innovation Challenge
ModoScript, founded by College of Arts and Sciences student David Zuleta ’18, is the only student startup selected as a winner in the statewide Medical Device Innovation Challenge (MDIC).聽 Seven ventures, including ModoScript, were selected for the prestigious MDIC acceleration…
黑料不打烊 Revels in Mega-Science Experiment to Study Neutrinos
Associate Professor Mitchell Soderberg and Assistant Professor Denver Whittington are part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code
According to the National Center for Women in Technology鈥檚 2016 analysis, only 26 percent聽of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…
Alumnus Posthumously Named to National Mining Hall of Fame
The聽National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum聽(NMHFM) in Leadville, Colorado, will posthumously honor an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences. Vincent E. McKelvey 鈥39, a noted research geologist who directed the聽U.S. Geological Survey聽(USGS) from 1971-77, is part of…
University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to 黑料不打烊 to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…
Q&A: Shiu-Kai Chin on Cybersecurity
Shiu-Kai Chin, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, director of the Center for Information and Systems Assurance and Trust, provost faculty fellow for strategic planning and Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence,…