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Geologists Prove Early Tibetan Plateau Was Larger than Previously Thought
Earth scientists in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the Tibetan Plateau鈥攖he world鈥檚 largest, highest and flattest plateau鈥攈ad a larger initial extent than previously documented. Their discovery is the subject of an article in the journal…
Professors Test Boundaries of ‘New Physics’ with Discovery of Four-Quark Hadron
Physicists in The College of Arts and Sciences have helped confirm the existence of exotic hadrons鈥攁 type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. Their finding is the subject of a forthcoming article, prepared by the…
Biologist Awarded Prestigious Research Grant
To say the competition for the 2014 International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants was fierce would be a massive understatement. In fact, when the process began more than a year ago, 844 letters of intent were submitted…
SU Plays Key Role in Search for Elusive Dark Matter
The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from The College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of…
Chemists鈥 Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes
Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…
Inauguration Symposium to Address What Makes a University Great
As part of the inauguration festivities on Friday, April 11, Chancellor Kent Syverud has invited a distinguished and diverse panel of SU experts to participate in a thoughtful conversation about 鈥淕reat Universities in the Next 25 Years.鈥 The symposium will…
Research Computing Renaissance at SU
Recent developments in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 OrangeGrid and Academic Virtual Hosting Environments (AVHE)鈥攂oth centrally managed by Information Technology and Services (ITS)鈥攊ncrease the University鈥檚 resources for compute intensive academic research, and allow SU鈥檚 researchers to tackle new and greater computational tasks, get…
SU Advance to Host Discussion on Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
SU Advance will present 鈥淒o Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower,鈥 as part of its Conversations on Equity and Excellence series on Monday, March 31, at 2:30 p.m. in the Maxwell School鈥檚 Public Events Room, 220 Eggers…
Wind Power Can Be Cost-Comparable, New Analysis Reveals
The costs of using wind energy and natural gas for electricity are virtually equal when聽accounting for the full private and social costs of each, making wind a competitive energy聽source for the United States, according to a new study on the…
Getting to Know: Astrophysicist Jedidah Isler
Jedidah Isler was interested in the heavens from the time she was 11 or 12. She had a telescope as a kid, which her sister bought her for her birthday one year. But she didn鈥檛 get a chance to pursue…