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STEM

How Robotic Rehabilitation Devices Transform People’s Lives

Friday, March 21, 2025, By Kwami Maranga

Observing his father’s work in physical therapy research and cognition tests, Evan Tulsky’s ’24 interest in robotics and rehabilitation took shape at a young age. He recognized the crucial role that rehabilitation devices play in transforming people’s lives, motivating him…

Health & Society

Big Data Holds Key to Understanding Human Behavior

Thursday, September 19, 2024, By News Staff

Researchers increasingly analyze gigantic volumes of digital information to understand how and why individuals and groups of people conduct their lives the way they do, both during ordinary days and under extreme stress such as disease outbreaks or social unrest….

STEM

Caller ID of the Sea: Biologists Discover Link Between Whale Communication and Behavior

Monday, April 1, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

For researchers studying the acoustic behavior of whales, distinguishing which animal is vocalizing is like a teacher trying to figure out which student responded first when the entire class is calling out the answer. This is because many techniques used…

Health & Society

Center for Health Behavior Research and Innovation Unites Investigators Across Disciplines to Improve Health and Well-Being

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, By News Staff

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is pleased to announce the opening of the Center for Health Behavior Research and Innovation (CHBRI). The center will promote and support innovative health behavior research, training and community outreach endeavors across disciplines…

Campus & Community

Master Leadership Skills for Behavior Change With Crucial Influence Professional Development Program

Wednesday, October 18, 2023, By News Staff

More than 30 years of research by Crucial Learning—a skills-building organization offering award-winning courses and bestselling books focused on leadership development—indicates that human behavior is grounded in six sources of influence. Leaders must know how to leverage and apply these…

STEM

Syracuse Researchers Create a Global Occupant Behavior Database for ASHRAE

Friday, March 24, 2023, By Kerrie Marshall

There’s a new publicly accessible website from American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), ashraeobdatabase.com, that informs educators and practitioners like designers and energy modelers how people all over the world use buildings. SyracuseCoE Associate Director and Mechanical…

STEM

Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, By Alex Dunbar

Before a seed can grow into a tree, flower or plant, it needs to successfully implant itself in soil—a delicate and complex process. Seeds need to be able to take root and then remain protected from hungry birds and harsh…

Media, Law & Policy

‘There’s a Real Cost to Defending Behavior That’s Constitutionally Indefensible’: Liz Cheney Focuses on Citizenship During Maxwell Visit

Thursday, October 6, 2022, By Jessica Youngman

As the House of Representatives prepared to reconvene on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney walked through the Capitol to assess the aftermath of the insurrection. In an area known as Statuary Hall, she found members…

Campus & Community

Studying Human Behavior and Turning Policy Into Practice to Address Food Insecurity on the ‘’Cuse Conversations’ Podcast

Thursday, September 15, 2022, By John Boccacino

Children living in the City of Syracuse face the highest child poverty rate in the country, with 48.4% of children living in poverty, not sure where their next meal will come from, according to the most recent data published in…

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

“Nanopore Sensor Captures Protein Hub’s Binding Behaviors”

Thursday, February 24, 2022, By Lily Datz

Research from Liviu Movileanu, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and graduate students Lauren Ashley Mayse and Ali Imran was featured in the Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News story “Nanopore Sensor Captures Protein Hub’s Binding Behaviors.”…