STEM

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host a Social Media Tweetup for registrants of the Syracuse BizBuzz Conference and members of Syracuse’s social media community.

Seven group projects were presented May 4 during the final class meeting of IST 400, “Digital iCreation,” in the iSchool’s Innovation Studio.

Women in Information Technology (WIT), a student-led organization at the School of Information Studies, recently partnered with the Syracuse Chapter of Nanhi Kali to help raise money to educate young girls in India.

Four Syracuse iSchool students in the M.S. in telecommunications and network management program will share highlights from their recent trip to the Interop 2010 conference during a presentation at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5.

Donald I. Siegel, a Meredith Professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed chair of the Water Sciences & Technology Board. The nationally renowned scientist, whose research encompasses contaminant hydrology, paleohydrogeology and wetland hyrdology, will serve a three-year term beginning in July.

A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York’s Three Rivers system—involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers—has revealed that oxygen resources have become degraded by several stressors, including the impact of wastewater treatment plants, nonpoint runoff, an increase in invasive zebra mussels and channelization of the flow.

Established in 2000 through the support of Assemblyman William B. Magnarelli, the Renaissance Internship Program, part of SU’s CASE Center, is an innovative University-industry partnership.

Emerging Talk is an avenue where creative individuals can meet others with great ideas and the knowledge to put them into action.

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host the Upstate CIO Conference on Friday in Hinds Hall.

The Department of Physics is marking the 60th anniversary of its pioneering condensed matter physics program with a daylong symposium.