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Invent@SU Students Turn Mouth Cleaning Device Into a $5 Million Business
For hundreds of years, the fundamental mechanism of cleaning your teeth through physical brushing has not changed very much—just variations of toothbrushes with bristles. Tairan Li and Chao Huang, industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and…
ECS Professor Vir V. Phoha Named a 2018 AAAS Fellow
Professor Vir V. Phoha of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was awarded this prestigious honor for developing practicable foundations of behavioral…
University Set to Open Massive 238-Painting Exhibition, ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth,’ with Accompanying Public Discussion Hosted by Tanner Lecture Series, University Lectures
All 238 paintings in Robert Shetterly’s masterwork portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship” will be on public display for the first time en masse Nov. 29-Dec. 14 at Syracuse University. And the artist himself will…
iSchool Researchers to Study Election-Related Misinformation on WhatsApp
A pair of researchers from the Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have received a research award from the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging service to study the issues of misinformation transmitted over the…
Is Cyber Monday Still a Thing? Retail Expert Says Its ‘Uniqueness’ Is Disappearing
According to the National Retail Federation, more than 160 million people are expected to shop over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, with 71 percent of those consumers planning to hit brick-and-mortar and online retailers on Black Friday. Ray Wimer is an…
Syracuse University to Invest $1 Million Annually to Expand Undergraduate Research, Creative Opportunities
Syracuse University today announced the commitment of $1 million annually to support a new Center for Undergraduate Research, the collaborative vision of students, faculty, staff and administrators to strengthen the University’s position as a preeminent and inclusive student-focused research institution….
Maxwell X Lab Helps City Recoup $1.47 Million in Overdue Tax Debt and Stabilize Ownership for Hundreds of Syracuse Properties
Maxwell X Lab, part of the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School, recently completed a series of projects designed to reduce overdue property tax bills in the City of Syracuse. Delinquent tax bills can lead to costly late…
5 Questions Answered: Amazon Opening Headquarters in New York and Arlington, VA
Today, Amazon announced it had chosen New York City and Northern Virginia as the new location for its second headquarters. The company plans to invest $2.5 billion in both locations, and hire as many as 25,000 employees in each location….
With the Innovation Law Center’s Help, an Engineer Innovates an Old Technology for a Life-Saving Purpose
Think back to your last time at a bank drive-thru. You likely deposited or received money through a tube that travels from your window to the bank and back in a minute or so. These systems—known as pneumatic tubes—have been…
CLLCTVE Agency LLC Wins First Prize in ’Cuse Tank Competition
The first-ever ’Cuse Tank—co-sponsored by the Blackstone LaunchPad and Syracuse University Libraries—celebrated the entrepreneurial spirit of SU innovators during the recent Family Weekend. A distinguished panel of parent judges who are successful entrepreneurs from a variety of industry sectors voted…