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This week’s inauguration of Advanced LIGO facilities in Richland, Wash., and Livingston, La., is a potent reminder of Syracuse University’s long-standing importance in the international astrophysics community. For nearly 25 years, the University’s participation in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave…

Pramod K. Varshney, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was the plenary speaker at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 in April. On its…

When computer science Professor Wenliang “Kevin” Du discusses the importance of cybersecurity, he likens it to building a beautiful house and forgetting to put a lock on the door. “The people who write codes and develop systems often don’t know the potential risks,” Du says.

The small tropical village of El Ciprés in Honduras faces a problem every time the rainy season hits. Its stream-fed water supply becomes especially turbid—inundated with suspended soil particles and microbes. It takes on a murky appearance and becomes unhealthy to drink.

iSchool faculty members Jeff Hemsley and Mike Fudge give us the inside scoop on what goes into the iSchool’s end-of-semester poster session. Data Visualization at the iSchool: Spring Poster Session from Syracuse iSchool on Vimeo.

Distinguished Professor Sheldon Stone says the discovery came about when two LHC experiments recently combined their results and found overwhelming evidence of an extremely rare decay of a particle known as the Bs meson, which contains a bottom, or “b,” quark and an anti-strange quark.

Melissa Pepling, associate professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a major grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her ongoing work in ovarian biology. She is the recipient of a three-year,…

Syracuse University was on display at the 10th annual Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Meeting of the Minds (MOM) Conference, recently held at North Carolina State University. Seven undergraduates, all with ties to the College of Arts and Sciences, produced a…

For most people, breaking three knuckles would inspire nothing more than a pained shriek and a trip to the emergency room. For Chelsea Stephens ’15, it was motivation to follow a path that led to her earning first place in…

Jacqueline Gerson, a graduate student in environmental engineering science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has earned a highly competitive graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The award will fund her research on mercury contamination from artisanal gold…