STEM

Students across campus have ideas. And in the spring, those students can participate in several seed funding competitions to fund their ideas. They can even win as much as $25,000. But what happens if students have an idea but need…

Securing your personal computer, tablet and smartphone—and the data they contain—is an ongoing process. The following steps and precautions can protect you from identity theft and data loss by drastically reducing the likelihood that your device will be hacked, infected…

School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Scott Nicholson will lead a session on transformative games at a meeting of the New York State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) tomorrow….

Mark Bowick, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed the new Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics. The Steele Professorship is one of the University’s oldest and is named for the 19th-century SU trustee….

The School of Information Studies has received a landmark gift of $7 million from the estate of Estelle Wilhelm ’38 (Arts and Sciences), G’39 (iSchool).

SU Advance will present Joan Bennett of Rutgers University in its next Conversations on Equity and Excellence series on Friday, Oct. 18, at 10 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. Bennett’s talk, “Science, Sex Chromosomes and…

More than two dozen mathematicians from New York State and Ontario will converge at Syracuse University for the 23rd annual “Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.” The conference, which is attended primarily by mathematicians from SU, Cornell…

The School of Information Studies (iSchool), whose national reputation is built on innovation in the information field, has initiated a student programs development campaign with some twists. The effort is modeled on the crowdsourcing style of fundraising, and it uses…

Syracuse University is joining with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) to encourage more young women to choose an education and career in technology through a national awards program that celebrates both their achievements and their goals…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $498,000 to enhance SU’s OrangeGrid by upgrading the campus’s data network infrastructure to facilitate high throughput research computing. OrangeGrid (formerly known as the HTC campus grid) uses idle desktop computers in…