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Business & Economy

Student Venture Captures Top Prize in International Innovation Competition

Friday, October 20, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Josh Aviv, co-founder and CEO of SparkCharge, won grand prize at the Blackstone/Techstars global venture pitch competition in New York City on Oct. 18. The competition came at the conclusion of a two-day Blackstone/Techstars Training Camp, an innovative new program…

Campus & Community

Faculty, Staff Invited to Register for Financial Wellness Presentation

Friday, October 20, 2017, By News Staff

Are you feeling anxious about debt? You’re not alone. Seventy-two percent of Americans said they felt stressed about money, with 22 percent feeling “extreme” stress (American Psychological Association). Dumping debt can be easier said than done—but it is a crucial, stress-relieving step in the…

STEM

Yale Physicist to Deliver 10th Annual Wali Lecture Oct. 26

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) will celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of its premier lecture series with a program by a renowned theoretical astrophysicist. Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, will deliver this…

Health & Society

Power and Responsibility—Ethics In Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert Professor Dana Radcliffe says it is also a fitting principle…

Arts & Culture

Poets Explore Theme of Disability as a Way of Knowing at Oct. 24 Event

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Poets Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson will share verses from their book, “Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems,” at a reading Tuesday, Oct. 24, in celebration of Disability Awareness Month. The event, part of Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A…

Business & Economy

Sport Management Professor Receives Grants to Study 2018 Winter Olympics Youth Viewership

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

With final preparations underway for the 2018 Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin Feb. 9  in PyeongChang, South Korea, Falk College Assistant Professor of Sport Management Jamie Jeeyoon Kim is researching the negotiation of motivation and constraints in young people’s decision making…

STEM

Falk Professor Receives Grant to Investigate Anaerobic Digestion

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

Despite a significant number of animals on smaller dairy farms in New York State and the northeastern United States, the vast majority of research on the benefits of anaerobic digester (AD) technologies only relates to larger livestock farms. That is…

Washington Post

Humanities Degrees Are Still Necessary

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Gerald Greenberg, associate professor of Russian and Linguistics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Arts and Sciences, talks to the Washington Post on the importance of a humanities degree. “The value of a college education…

STEM

Physicists at Forefront of Multinational Experiment

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continue to make inroads on the world stage. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) group in the Department of Physics recently hosted the 85th Large Hardon Collider beauty (LHCb) Week in Lake Placid,…

Vox

Physics Professors Brown and Saulson Make Breakthrough in Neutron Star Discovery

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

College of Arts and Sciences faculty members, Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics,  commented on the recent neutron star collision that is helping researchers discover the origins of precious…