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Professors Look to Geologic Past to Predict Future Environmental Conditions

Wednesday, June 22, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Earth scientists are using an NSF grant to study the link between elevated temperatures and precipitation in ancient Antarctica.

STEM

Biologists Point to Climate Change Impacting Ecosystems

Tuesday, May 24, 2016, By Amy Manley

A team of biologists in the College of Art and Sciences is taking a long look at how climate change may shift the way the green grasses grow. Jason Fridley, associate professor of biology and co-founder of the Climate Change…

STEM

Chemists Add Color to Chemical Reactions

Tuesday, May 10, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have come up with an innovative new way to visualize and monitor chemical reactions in real time. Members of the Maye Research Group in the Department of Chemistry have designed a nanomaterial…

STEM

Undergraduate Receives Two Awards from American Society of Plant Biology

Thursday, April 28, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Snigdha Chatterjee ’17 has received two prestigious awards from the American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB). She was awarded both a travel grant and a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Between the two awards, Chatterjee is supported to travel to the…

Media, Law & Policy

Professor Ghosh to Conduct Webcast on Supreme Court Case Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee

Tuesday, April 19, 2016, By Robert Conrad

Professor Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor in the College of Law and director of the Technology Commercialization Law Program, will conduct a webcast on the Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee case that is being argued before the U.S. Supreme…

STEM

Langmuir Spotlights SU Nanotechnology Research

Thursday, March 31, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

Nanoparticles are used in a wide range of applications, including targeted drug delivery, biosensing, imaging and catalysis. When they are paired in solutions with surfactants—chemical compounds that determine surface tension—they are even able to form stable suspensions that can trap…

Campus & Community

April 15 Is Application Deadline for Summer Institute for Technology-Enhanced Teaching & Learning

Tuesday, March 29, 2016, By Christopher C. Finkle

Online Learning Services, University College and the Office of Faculty Affairs have announced the 2016 Summer Institute for Technology-enhanced Teaching & Learning (SITETL). Offered twice in separate, week-long sessions, SITETL will be held May 23-27 and again on June 6-10….

Health & Society

Bracketology: Is it a Science or an Art?

Tuesday, March 15, 2016, By Keith Kobland

With the start of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments comes a yearly exercise involving college basketball fans and non fans alike: filing out the brackets. Whether it’s for fun or for a few dollars, “bracketology” sweeps the country…

STEM

The Psychology of Robots

Thursday, March 10, 2016, By Amy Manley

Professor Michael Kalish’s psychology class does not sound like your typical campus lecture. Whirring motors, turning gears and the occasional beep serve as the soundtrack of a new offering in the College of Arts and Sciences. Supported by the college’s…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Students, Faculty to Create Content for HoloLens Augmented Reality Headset

Tuesday, March 8, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

As the first school of communications to launch a virtual reality storytelling course tailored to journalists and television and film producers, Newhouse is poised to expand into augmented reality.