STEM
Distinguished cell biologist to present inaugural Ghaleb ’79 and Rima Daouk Visiting Scientist lecture
The Department of Biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences presents two lectures by Thoru Pederson ’63, G ’68, the inaugural Ghaleb ’79 and Rima Daouk Visiting Scientist. Both are free and open to the public. Parking is…
iSchool/Center for Digital Literacy Awarded National Leadership Grant
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and its Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) have been awarded a National Leadership Grant for $190,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year grant, titled “Investigating Self-Determination Variables in Summer…
Endowed gift expands neuroscience program in The College of Arts and Sciences
Sandra J. Hewett appointed inaugural Bishop Professor Beverly Petterson Bishop ’44 and Charles Bishop ’42, G’44 graduated from Syracuse University in 1944, she with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, he a master’s degree in chemistry. They went on to earn…
McKnight, Rotolo honored by Technology Alliance of Central New York
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members Lee McKnight and Anthony Rotolo received awards at last night’s Celebration of Technology Banquet held by the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY).
SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…
Syracuse University Industrial Assessment Center awarded $1.5 million to support Department of Energy initiative
The Syracuse University-Industrial Assessment Center (SU-IAC) has been awarded $1.5 million over five years to support the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) program to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency and to help them…
Nicholson delivers opening colloquium at MIT
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicolson delivered the opening colloquium for the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a visiting professor.
Addressing the challenge of persister cells in bacterial infections
How antimicrobial peptides may offer an answer to challenging problem Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and member of the Syracuse Biomaterials…
SU physicist aids in discovery of predicting breaking points in disordered solids
In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered structure makes such predictions a more daunting task. A collaboration of…
Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant
Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…