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STEM

Geologists Receive Federal Grant to Study Tectonic Uplift

Thursday, January 22, 2015, By Rob Enslin

Earth scientists in the College of Arts and Sciences have received a major grant to test a new technique for measuring tectonic uplift. Gregory Hoke, assistant professor of Earth sciences, and Devin McPhillips, a postdoctoral research associate, are the recipients…

STEM

Faculty, Students Train India’s Future Engineers to Reduce Energy Footprint

Thursday, January 22, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Rapid economic growth in India has led to a spike in energy consumption, placing a serious strain on the country’s grid and energy supplies. Blackouts and brownouts are common and widespread. Worse, limited resources often make it impossible to generate…

STEM

Nicholson to Speak at Game Design Conference

Thursday, January 22, 2015, By Diane Stirling

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicholson, an expert in meaningful gamification, transformative games, facilitating learning through games and play in non-classroom settings, and a game designer himself, has been invited to address the IndieCade East conference in…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Presents Acclaimed ‘In the Next Room or the vibrator play’

Wednesday, January 21, 2015, By News Staff

“In the Next Room, or the vibrator play” is a fresh and funny new play about love, intimacy and marriage. It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new…

Campus & Community

Illumination Initiative Lights Up Iconic Downtown Buildings

Friday, January 16, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse is renowned for winter, but this season the city is shining a little brighter, thanks to an illumination initiative by the Connective Corridor focused on lighting iconic buildings and public spaces along the recently completed streetscape.

Business & Economy

Whitman School Welcomes Inaugural Class of MBA@Syracuse Students

Thursday, January 15, 2015, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management and 2U Inc. announced Tuesday the start of the inaugural class of students in MBA@Syracuse, the school’s newly enhanced online M.B.A. degree program powered by 2U. The first MBA@Syracuse students, a group of…

STEM

Drone Project Takes Flight, Leads to Entrepreneurial Venture

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

A couple of summers ago, Arland Whitfield ’16 stumbled across a YouTube video about drones. It wasn’t long before he knew he had to get airborne.

STEM

iSchool Mourns Former Faculty Member Marta Dosa

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies Professor Emerita Marta Dosa passed away on Thursday, Jan. 8. She joined the faculty in 1962, after receiving her master’s degree in library science from Syracuse in 1957, and served for 34 years. She was 91…

Business & Economy

Student Ventures Can Enter Panasci Business Plan Competition to Win Startup Funding

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By Lindsay Wickham

The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE) in the Whitman School of Management are calling for submissions for the 2015 Panasci Business Plan Competition. The competition accepts business plan ideas from graduate and…

STEM

Shining a Light on Quantum Dots Measurement

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By News Staff

Professor Shikha Nangia, in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, and Professor Ari Chakraborty, in the Department of Chemistry collaborated to understand how protein corona forms and what is different about the quantum dot before and after the formation of the corona.