STEM
Learning to Combat Risk the Air Force Way
Managing risk is an essential part of any operation. Syracuse University’s strong interdisciplinary expertise in military affairs, cybersecurity, human dynamics, business and more provides the ideal setting for studying risk and how to guard ourselves, our businesses,and our country from…
Hosein’s Research Garners 3M Award, Publication in Key Journals
Ian D. Hosein is on a roll. Since the first of the year, his research in developing new materials with advanced capabilities has earned him the selective 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) and front-page coverage in two journals, Physica Status…
Swimming in a Sea of Neutrinos: Ph.D. Candidate Avinay Bhat Discusses His Research Into the Universe’s Smallest, Most Elusive Particles
Ph.D. candidate Avinay Bhat studies neutrinos—tiny, elusive particles that hold clues about the origin of the Universe. As a member of the High-Energy Physics (HEP) research group, he also builds components for a major experiment at Fermilab, a U.S. Department…
Mission to Mars—Miguel San Martin ’82
When a spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere, terror sets in on Earth. Following a smooth, quiet cruise across the expanse of space, a NASA Mars lander nears its final destination. Eighty miles above the alien surface, the vehicle begins a…
ARCTIC LiDAR Explores the Logistical Landscape of the Arctic Coast
In March 2017, Daniele Profeta was invited to teach a workshop at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. There, he joined an expedition along the Arctic Coast with renowned speculative architect Liam Young and his students…
Zhang Receives NSF Career Award
Teng Zhang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on mechanics of interfaces in soft…
Physicists Reveal Why Matter Dominates the Universe
Syracuse University’s Sheldon Stone helps discover matter-antimatter asymmetry in charmed quarks Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have confirmed that matter and antimatter decay differently for elementary particles containing charmed quarks. Distinguished Professor Sheldon Stone says the…
Food Truck for the Physics Mind Comes to Campus March 28
What’s billed as the “food truck for the physics mind” will be coming to campus Thursday, March 28. A 44-foot trailer, filled with a variety of physics apparatus, will be pulling up to campus, and students, faculty and staff invited…
University Lectures Hosts Silicon Valley Pioneer, LGBTQ Advocate Lynn Conway
The University Lectures series continues with Lynn Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, on Tuesday, March 26. Conway’s presentation, “An Invisible Woman: The Inside Story Behind the VLSI Revolution in Silicon Valley,”…
New Class Explores the Science of Snow at Syracuse University
When Professor David Chandler had the opportunity to develop a new elective course, he wanted to find a way for students to make the most of Syracuse’s famous winters. “Then I can bring the research into the classroom and have…