STEM
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.
iSchool to Host Panel Discussion Friday on Apple vs. the FBI
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host a multidisciplinary panel discussion on Friday afternoon to help shed light on Apple’s resistance to the recent FBI demand to unlock the iPhone of one of the terrorists involved in the San…
New Research Introduces ‘Pause Button’ for Boiling
Using a focused laser beam to essentially hit the pause button on boiling, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Shalabh Maroo’s research group and collaborators have created a single vapor bubble in a pool of liquid that can remain stable on a surface for hours, instead of milliseconds.
Small Nominated for WISE Instructor of the Year Award
Ruth V. Small, Laura J. & L. Douglas Meredith Professor at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has been recognized by the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium for her excellence in online education. Small was nominated for a WISE 2015 Instructor of the…
iSchool Student Selected to Attend Clinton Global Initiative University Conference
School of Information Studies (iSchool) sophomore Jezrel Sabaduquia and his project team have been invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference (CGIU) at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The annual conference brings together over 1,000 students…
University Hosts Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
More than 100 undergraduate women in physics—some from as far away as the University of Maine and Rutgers University—recently converged on campus to discuss their changing role in the field. In January, Syracuse University was one of nine institutions to…
Gravitational Waves Discovery, New Carnegie Classification Underscore Research Excellence at Syracuse
From all over campus to all around the world, a momentous discovery in the world of physics was made known Thursday.