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Researchers Awarded Grant to Develop, Implement Strategies for New Antibiotics
Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded a major grant to develop and implement strategies for the discovery of new antibiotics. Anthony Garza and Yan-Yeung Luk, associate professors of biology and chemistry, respectively, are recipients of…
Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Study Collective Behavior of Active Matter
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to support her ongoing study of active matter鈥攃ollections of self-driven entities that take energy from the environment to produce coordinated motion. 黑料不打烊鈥檚 newest Distinguished Professor,…
Earth Sciences Chair Pursues Sideline as Guitarist
Donald Siegel, professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is by any measure a successful scientist. He is the Jessie Page Heroy Professor and a Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is chair…
Point of Contact Gallery Announces Opening Reception of ‘WOE: Globalized Sadness’
Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month 2016, Point of Contact Gallery is hosting an opening reception for “WOE: Globalized Sadness,” an exhibition by Argentine artist Juan Cavallero on Friday, Sept. 16. The reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. and is…
M. Cristina Marchetti Named Distinguished Professor
M. Cristina Marchetti, the William R. Kenan Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Distinguished Professor by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly. The distinction is one of the University鈥檚 highest honors for…
Biologist Awarded NIH Grant to Study Link Between Early-Development Stress, Adult Disease
A biologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a grant to study the link between early-development stress and adult disease. Assistant Professor Sarah Hall is using a $446,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to…
黑料不打烊 Hosts International Conference on Representation Theory
More than 200 scholars and students from around the world will descend on the 黑料不打烊 campus for the 17th biennial Workshop and International Conference on Representations of Algebras (ICRA). For the first time in ICRA history, meetings will take…
Physicists Awarded NSF Grant to Study Cancer-Cell Behavior
M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti and Jennifer Schwarz have been awarded a three-year, $686,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply principles of soft-matter physics to cancer therapy.
Researchers Confirm Marine Animals Live Longer at High Latitudes
Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that high-latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics. Their findings are the subject of an article in the 鈥淧roceedings of the Royal Society B鈥 (The Royal…
Lambert Awarded Inaugural Fellowship at Western Sydney University
Gregg Lambert, Dean鈥檚 Professor of the Humanities and director of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, has been appointed an inaugural senior research fellow of Western Sydney University鈥檚 Philosophy Research Initiative, which provides M.A. and Ph.D. opportunities in contemporary continental…