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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…

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…

STEM

Air Orange Team Competing to Reinvent How We Transmit Wireless Data

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Countless devices are connected through wireless media  and all of those phones, sensors and smart home networks are putting increasing pressure on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Right now, the spectrum is divided into exclusively licensed bands, thus creating enormous…

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…

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,…

Business & Economy

Whitman to Host 68th Annual Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management‘s  H.H. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management will host its annual Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program Thursday, Oct. 19, from 2:30-5 p.m. at the Whitman School’s Marvin and Helaine Lender Auditorium. Established in 1949, the annual Salzberg event is…

Forbes

‘Space Alchemy’ Reveals Origin of Gold, Platinum

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

The Universe is an overall mystery to many, but a new discovery is helping lead scientists to discover the origins of gold and platinum. In Forbes, Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37…

Campus & Community

Today Is the Day to Boost the ’Cuse!

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By John Boccacino

Boost the ’Cuse, Syracuse University’s first-ever 24-hour giving day, takes place all day today. Alumni and friends of SU around the world are encouraged to make a gift to support the part of SU they love most.

STEM

Syracuse Physicists Usher in a New Golden Age of Astronomy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University physicists are among a global team of scientists to make a revolutionary discovery confirming the origins of gold and other heavy metals whose presence in the universe has been a long-standing mystery.