STEM
Student Chapter of ACM Growing Upward, Outward at iSchool
A new student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, is in its second year at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and is experiencing growth with the spring induction of…
A Challenge Measured in Megabytes
Two remote radios. Three minutes with a 5MHz bandwidth. And a randomly generated amount of data—about 173 megabytes.
It was a challenge Kapil Borle and his team couldn’t resist.
Syracuse University Physicists Confirm Existence of New Type of Meson
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences have made several important discoveries regarding the basic structure of mesons—subatomic particles long thought to be composed of one quark and one antiquark and bound together by a strong interaction. Recently, Professor…
Faculty, Students Using Big Data to Analyze Energy-Use Patterns
A team from the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is conducting research analysis using big data sets from the Pecan Street Research Consortium, a global collaboration working on utility system operations, climate change, integration of distributed energy and storage, and…
Entrepreneur Wiley Cerilli Joins Board of Advisors
School of Information Studies (iSchool) alumnus Wiley Cerilli, vice president on the Constant Contact executive team, has joined the school’s Board of Advisors. Cerilli runs one of the largest divisions for the company. Prior to Constant Contact he was the…
Physics Master Class Connects Students With CERN
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Centscere Wins $150,000 in StartupLabs Competition
Centscere, the philanthropic student venture that began last summer in the Syracuse Student Sandbox, and entered the Syracuse StartupLabs competition earlier this year, was awarded the top prize of $150,000 in the StartupLabs contest. At the Centerstate CEO annual meeting…
Bei Yu Awarded IMLS Grant to Build Citation Opinion Analysis Tool
A team at the School of Information Studies will be able to start building a valuable new academic research citation tool with newly awarded grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Assistant Professor Bei Yu has…
Geologists Prove Early Tibetan Plateau Was Larger than Previously Thought
Earth scientists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the Tibetan Plateau—the world’s largest, highest and flattest plateau—had a larger initial extent than previously documented. Their discovery is the subject of an article in the journal…
Biologist Awarded Prestigious Research Grant
To say the competition for the 2014 International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants was fierce would be a massive understatement. In fact, when the process began more than a year ago, 844 letters of intent were submitted…