STEM
Peer to Peer
In the traditional college learning structure, students enter the classroom and place their focus on the classroom instructor. But researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences biology department are finding that higher levels of academic success may be achieved…
Student Company Places Second in Student Startup Madness Competition
Student startup company ChaChing, a peer-to-peer payment and money transfer application, has been awarded second place in the “Entrepreneurial Eight” final round of the Student Startup Madness competition held at the SXSW interactive media conference in Austin, Texas, this week. ChaChing was co-founded…
iSchool, Mercyhurst University Partner for Accelerated Graduate Programs
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced a partnership with the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst University intended to attract more students to today’s high-demand information management fields. Mercyhurst and Syracuse made the agreement official during…
Physicists Achieve Success with Shape-Shifting Water Droplets
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences are close to figuring out how to make biologically inspired robots that can change shape according to their environment. A team of researchers, led by Mark Bowick, professor of physics and director…
MIT Chemist Stephen Lippard to Deliver Prins Lecture March 21
Bioinorganic Chemist Stephen J. Lippard, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the Willem Prins Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 21, at 4 p.m. at the University Sheraton Conference Center (801 University…
Information Security Club Participating in NECCDC 2016
The Information Security Club at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is headed to Orono, Maine, this weekend to participate in the 2016 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC). Over 100 students from nine other schools will participate in the three-day competition, held at…
The Psychology of Robots
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…
Professor Creates Khalifa Energy Systems Award Fund
A recent donation from Distinguished Professor H. Ezzat Khalifa to the College of Engineering and Computer Science establishes the Khalifa Energy Systems Award Fund. This award will recognize the achievement of a graduating senior in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,…
Nangia Wins ACS Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has awarded its competitive OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award to Assistant Professor Shikha Nangia of the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty…
Chemists Combine Biology, Nanotechnology to Create Alternate Energy Source
Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have made a transformational advance in an alternate lighting source—one that doesn’t require a battery or a plug.