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.
The College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) has announced the appointment of Shikha Nangia as the Milton and Ann Stevenson Endowed Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Made possible by a gift from the late Milton and Ann Stevenson,…
Ten years ago, a faint ripple in the fabric of space-time forever changed our understanding of the Universe. On Sept. 14, 2015, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first direct detection of gravitational waves—disturbances caused by the…
While summer may bring a quiet calm to the Quad, the drive to discover at Syracuse University never rests. The usual buzz of students rushing between classes may fade, but inside the labs of the College of Arts and Sciences…
A new study looks at the physical forces that help shape developing organs. Scientists in the past believed that the fast-acting biochemistry of genes and proteins is responsible for directing this choreography. But new research from the College of Arts…
Baobao Zhang, associate professor of political science and Maxwell Dean Associate Professor of the Politics of AI, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for $567,491 to support her project, “Future of Generative Artificial Intelligence…
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