STEM
ECS Faculty Awarded $1.4 Million from Energy Department to Advance Building Energy Modeling
Two faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) will extend their collaborations to develop an innovative system that improves energy modeling of existing buildings using “aerial intelligence” acquired by drones. Senem Velipasalar, associate professor of electrical…
Biology Graduate Student Receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Julia Zeh is a Ph.D. student in the Bioacoustics and Behavioral Ecology Lab under biology Associate Professor Susan Parks, working on a project that ultimately will contribute to the conservation of endangered whales. Her interest in ecology and animal behavior…
Forensics and National Security Sciences Institute Develops DNA Tool
DNA is everywhere—not just in bodily fluids, such as blood or saliva, but also in traces left by the touch of a finger. If more than one person has been sitting at the same table, for example, traces of each…
Information Technology Services Takes Center Stage at NetApp Insight Conference
Thousands of information technology professionals gathered at the NetApp Insight Conference in Las Vegas last week to hear experts from such leading organizations as Centura Health, SAP, DreamWorks—and Syracuse University. Eric Sedore, associate chief information officer with Information Technology Services…
Professor Jian Tang Named a 2019 Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Jian Tang as a 2019 Distinguished Member for his outstanding scientific contributions to computing. All 2019 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers…
Massive Asteroid Passing Earth Is ‘Time Machine’ From Early Solar System
NASA has discovered an asteroid as large as 2,000-feet that is barreling towards Earth, but is not expected to make an impact. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies has identified the asteroid as 481394 (2006 SF6). It’s likely to be…
Beyond Lithium-Ion: Next Generation Battery Research Underway
New smartphones, portable devices and electric cars may get a lot of the public’s attention but all of them are dependent on batteries to make them run. Most current devices use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries—technology that was first commercialized in the…
NEXT 2019 Conference on Technology, Manufacturing and Biotech is Nov. 8 at The Oncenter
Syracuse University’s Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE), NYS Science and Technology Law Center at Syracuse University College of Law (NYSSTLC), CNY Biotech Accelerator and FuzeHub announce the lineup for this year’s NEXT conference, which takes place Friday, Nov….
Provost Michele Wheatly Highlights Institutional Commitment to Inclusion in Keynote
Provost Michele Wheatly delivered the morning keynote address at the Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network’s 2019 Equity in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Community Convening…
First-Year Bioengineering Students Build Assistive Technology Devices
At first glance it looked like first-year bioengineering major Olivia Kmito ’23 and her partner Kevin Place ’23 were just playing the video game Tetris in their ECS 101 class, but if you looked closely you could see they were…