Mechanical engineering student Russell Fearon ’20 is one of nine national finalists for the EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator and will present his work on Oct. 17 at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. A panel of judges will determine the top two candidates to receive grants of $50,000 and $20,000.
Fearon will showcase the wearable diabetes management device he developed with teammate Ricardo Sanchez ’21 during the Invent@SU session on the Syracuse University campus this summer. Their SugEx watch contains a lancer to prick the skin and a built in glucometer to simultaneously calculate a blood sugar reading.
Fearon and Sanchez are working with the Blackstone LaunchPad in Bird Library to advance their project.
In addition to the top prizes, the EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator will award a $5,000 prize to the “fan favorite” selection. Voting is conducted online.
This spring, Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) held its annual Norma Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony. WiSE was honored to host distinguished guest speaker Joan-Emma Shea, who presented “Self-Assembly of the Tau Protein: Computational Insights Into Neurodegeneration.” Shea…
Bao-Ding “Bob” Cheng’s journey to Syracuse University in pursuit of graduate education in the 1960s was long and arduous. He didn’t have the means for air travel, so he voyaged more than 5,000 nautical miles by boat from his home…
One of the most critical issues facing the scientific world, no less the future of humanity, is climate change. Unlocking information to help understand and mitigate the impact of a warming planet is a complex puzzle that requires interdisciplinary input…
Detecting single photons—the smallest unit of light—is crucial for advanced quantum technologies such as optical quantum computing, communication and ultra-sensitive imaging. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the most efficient means of detecting single photons and these detectors can count…
Several key moments in Earth’s history help us humans answer the question, “How did we get here?” These moments also shed light on the question, “Where are we going?,” offering scientists deeper insight into how organisms adapt to physical and…
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