STEM
Syracuse iSchool doctoral student granted access to U.S. research facility supporting Nobel Prize-winning scientists studying climate change
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.
SU students enter regional business competitions
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.
iCaucus awards first Raymond von Dran Award to Drexel’s Toni Carbo
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.
Syracuse iSchool continues Upstate IT Scholarship program to increase IT talent pool, sustain local industries
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.
Syracuse iSchool professor receives grant to study global value chain of wind energy
Jason Dedrick’s new study on the global wind energy industry hopes to provide factual research on policy issues such as clean energy jobs.
SU receives teaching grant from Empire State Stem Cell Board to develop new undergraduate course
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.
NIH awards $3 million in grants to College of Arts and Sciences researchers for leukemia, nanobiotechnology projects
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.
Syracuse iSchool launches blog, ‘Information Space’
The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced the creation of its official blog, Information Space (http://ischool.syr.edu/blog).
Syracuse iSchool researchers share scholarly work at 2010 iConference this week
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.
Syracuse iSchool announces creation of Center for Convergence and Emerging Network Technologies
The Center for Emerging Technologies (CENT) and the Convergence Center merged to create the new Center for Convergence and Emerging Network Technologies (CCENT).