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A team of scientists from the international Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, which includes physicists from Syracuse University, has identified two events in a new analysis of experimental data that have characteristics consistent with particles that make up dark matter.

John D’Ignazio, Ph. D. student in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool), was accepted into the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Graduate Visitor Program.

Syracuse University has the most submissions to this year’s Central Upstate Regional Alliance Business Plan Competition, making up 39 percent of student business ideas in the running for $5,000. SU also has three teams entered in the $200,000 Emerging Business Competition.

During an awards banquet Feb. 5 at the 2010 iConference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Syracuse iSchool Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy presented the first ever Raymond F. von Dran Award to Toni Carbo.

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) is responding to these employment trends by educating a new talent pool through its Upstate IT Scholarship Program.

Jason Dedrick’s new study on the global wind energy industry hopes to provide factual research on policy issues such as clean energy jobs.

An interdisciplinary team of Syracuse University faculty and faculty from SUNY-Upstate Medical University was one of five higher education groups statewide to receive a grant from the Empire State Stem Cell Board.

Faculty researchers from the departments of biology and physics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded $3 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced the creation of its official blog, Information Space (http://ischool.syr.edu/blog).

Social media saturation, smarter search engine development, mobile devices and cell phone proliferation, IT energy consumption, and ease of IT adoption and use are among the topic areas that researchers from Syracuse University School of Information Studies will be exploring at the 2010 iConference: iMPACTS.