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Eatman receives international early career honors in the area of service learning and community engagement
Timothy K. Eatman, assistant professor of higher education in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s School of Education and director of research for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, has been selected to receive the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Early Career Award.
SU professor awarded NSF grant to design more secure Web browsers
Wenliang Du, professor of computer science in the L.C Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received a $471,970 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore ways to make web browsers a safer environment for information gathering and dissemination.
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ research team uses nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles to accelerate algae growth; may be a key to creating efficient biofuel production
Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability. A team led by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has uncovered a process that is a promising step toward accomplishing these three goals.
TRAC: Immigration Court case backlog at all-time high
According to a recent analysis of very timely court data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a new all time high of 247,922 matters by the middle of June 2010.
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ to host international indoor air quality and building energy conservation conference Aug. 15-18
On Aug. 15, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ will again welcome international visitors gathering to discuss indoor air quality, healthy buildings and energy efficiency.
Renamed Institute on Communication and Inclusion builds on two decades of advocacy, breakthrough research
The Facilitated Communication Institute is taking on a new name, the Institute on Communication and Inclusion.
SU’s TRAC: ICE deporting more non-citizens than in Bush years
According to a recent report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), newly released figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that during the first nine months of fiscal year (FY) 2010, more non-U.S. citizens were removed from the country than during any similar period in the administration of President George W. Bush.
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ physicists develop model that pushes limits of quantum theory, relativity
A team of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ physicists recently developed a new theoretical model to explain how the Pauli exclusion principle can be violated and how, under certain rare conditions, more than one electron can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state.
TRAC: U.S. federal immigration prosecutions trending upward
After several months of moderation, U.S. federal immigration prosecutions have returned to the high levels of last summer, according to an analysis of data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
SU School of Education, College of Arts and Sciences faculty receive NSF grant to develop digital video research lab
The project, “Acquisition of Shared Digital Video Data Analysis Infrastructure,” will build shared resources to improve and streamline research projects.