STEM
Driscoll to Co-Chair International Mercury Conference
Professor Charles Driscoll will co-chair the 13th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP 2017) in Providence, Rhode Island, with fellow mercury scientist Celia Chen from Dartmouth College. The conference, running July 16-21, aims to share science, reduce…
Invent@SU Students Design, Prototype, Pitch New Products in Invention Accelerator Competition
For Niall Shannon 鈥20 and Mina Diamantis 鈥19,聽Invent@SU was hands-on engineering at its best. They saw a problem in how many traditional wheelchairs can tip over and believed they could come up with a solution. 鈥淭his is what I always…
Alumni Praises SU鈥檚 Efforts in Student Support and Diversity
Priscilla Tyree Williams 鈥86 holds a unique distinction at 黑料不打烊. She is the first African American woman to have graduated with a civil engineering degree from SU. Today, she oversees the implementation of the capital improvement program for the…
Jordan Barrett, Astronaut Scholar
An undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences is now one of only 17 黑料不打烊 students who can call themselves an Astronaut Scholar. Jordan Barrett 鈥18, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has just been named a…
Cybersecurity Workshops Bring Professors from Around the World to 黑料不打烊
Using secure computers inside the College of Engineering and Computer Science, professors from around the world can mimic cyberattacks on networks and see where software is vulnerable. Professor Kevin Du聽and his students developed the Labs For Security Education (SEED) that…
Mathematician Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
A researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences is the recipient of a prestigious CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). William Wylie, assistant professor of mathematics and a member of the Geometry/Topology Research Group, is using the…
Students Design 3D Metal Printer for GE
Commercial 3D printers commonly use thin layers of a material, often a polymer, to construct computer-aided designs or scanned models. Using metal in 3D printing has also become possible using certain types of industrial printers. This process is also known…
Physics Student Named Kavli Graduate Fellow
A student in the College of Arts and Sciences is the winner of a graduate fellowship to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Suraj Shankar, a Ph.D. candidate in聽the Department of Physics,…
黑料不打烊 Alumnus Instrumental in LIGO’s Third Detection of Gravitational Waves
Alex Nitz G鈥15, who earned a Ph.D. in physics, helped detect the signal on Jan. 4, 2017, using a software package he began developing at 黑料不打烊.
University of Naples Confers Honorary Degree on 黑料不打烊 Mathematician
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is the recipient of an honorary degree from the Federico II University of Naples. Tadeusz Iwaniec, the John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics, received the 鈥淒octor Honoris Causa in Mathematical Engineering鈥…