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2025 Is a Strong Year for NSF Proposal Funding, Early-Career Faculty Awards
National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for Syracuse University faculty research projects totaled $19.7 million in fiscal year 2025, an increase of $5.8 million over last year’s total, according to the Office of Research. NSF also recognized four faculty members with…
Tissue Forces Help Shape Developing Organs
A new study looks at the physical forces that help shape developing organs. Scientists in the past believed that the fast-acting biochemistry of genes and proteins is responsible for directing this choreography. But new research from the College of Arts…
A&S Scientists Explore Protein Droplets as a New Way to Understand Disease
When we are young and healthy, our cells successfully monitor and manage our worn-out or damaged proteins, keeping things working properly. But as we age, this cleanup system can falter, leading to protein clumps linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as…
WiSE Hosts the 2025 Norma Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Undergraduate Research Prize Award Ceremony
This spring, Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) held its annual Norma Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony. WiSE was honored to host distinguished guest speaker Joan-Emma Shea, who presented “Self-Assembly of the Tau Protein: Computational Insights Into Neurodegeneration.” Shea…
Biologist Reveals New Insights Into Fish’s Unique Attachment Mechanism
On a wave-battered rock in the Northern Pacific Ocean, a fish called the sculpin grips the surface firmly to maintain stability in its harsh environment. Unlike sea urchins, which use their glue-secreting tube feet to adhere to their surroundings, sculpins…
At the Intersection of Research and Innovation: Biomedical Engineer Luiza Owuor ’26 Prepares for Career as a Medical Scientist
While many of her peers were enjoying the time off between high school graduation and starting college, Luiza Owuor ’26 was participating in the University’s Career Acceleration via Rigorous Educational Experiences in Research (CAREER) program, which introduces students to the…
A&S Chemist Develops Ultrasensitive Molecular Force Sensors
Professor Xiaoran Hu in the College of Arts and Sciences has developed molecules that undergo mechanochemical transformations, which could be used to report nanoscale stress in plastics and help scientists study mechanobiology processes. Plastic components are commonly used in infrastructure…
Research Distinction Awards Presented at BioInspired Symposium
The BioInspired Institute’s third annual research symposium was held Oct. 24-25, bringing together undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty from Syracuse University, SUNY Upstate Medical University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, along with other regional…
The Building Blocks of Future Smart Materials
How do cells take the shape they do and perform their functions? The enzymes and molecules that make them up are not themselves living—and yet they are able to adapt to their environment and circumstances, come together and interact, and…
Bio Artist Eduardo Kac to Present Wali Lecture at BioInspired Institute Symposium Oct. 24
The creator of the term “bio art,” an expressive form that interprets scientific principles and concepts through artistic installations, exhibitions and performances, is the keynote speaker for the University’s annual Kashi and Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and…