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Student Research Involves Foraging and Urban Wild Edible Plants (Video)
Maizy Ludden ’19, a scholar in the Ren茅e Crown University Honors Program, is conducting research that is literally taking her into the field (and on her bike) to gather information about food that’s growing in unlikely places.
Selfies Are Everywhere鈥擝ut Why?
Selfies: the self-portraits of the digital age. These photos posted on social media serve as a way to document a new haircut, a vacation or a night out on the town. But researchers from the Newhouse School have taken a…
Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy
Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…
Students Awarded Top Prizes for Honors Capstone Projects
For students in the Ren茅e Crown University Honors Program, the honors capstone project can be a challenge to complete. The project typically requires intensive research, writing, professional or creative work over the course of already busy junior and senior years….
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
A Decade of PRIDE
Celebrating its 10th year, the highly competitive Program PRIDE (Psychology Research Initiative for Diversity Enhancement) program brings together 黑料不打烊 undergraduates from underrepresented groups and invites them to develop an original independent psychology summer research project over the course of…
Volunteers Needed for Child Behavior Study
Children between the ages of 6 and 12 and their parents are needed for a child behavioral research study at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Participating families will receive compensation for their time, as well as a complimentary copy of one…
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.