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SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…
TRAC: Immigration Court backlog climbs, criminal cases fall
The number of cases awaiting a resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a total of 285,526 at the end of July 2011. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that…
Addressing the challenge of persister cells in bacterial infections
How antimicrobial peptides may offer an answer to challenging problem Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and member of the Syracuse Biomaterials…
SU physicist aids in discovery of predicting breaking points in disordered solids
In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered structure makes such predictions a more daunting task. A collaboration of…
Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant
Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…
Patent awarded for ‘method and system of controlling airfoil actuators’
Syracuse University has been awarded a patent for the development of a “Method and System of Controlling Airfoil Actuators.” This research will lead to greater maneuverability options for wing design on airplanes and is being considered for applications to wind…
Discovery by LCS’s Sureshkumar may be key to solar energy, smart glass technologies
Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of physics, has developed a patent-pending robust process to manufacture stable suspensions of metal nanoparticles capable of capturing…
Ancient clams yield new information about greenhouse effect on climate
Ancient fossilized clams that lived off the coast of Antarctica some 50 million years ago have a story to tell about El Niño, according to Syracuse University researcher Linda Ivany.
Trish Lowney named assistant vice president for strategic research development
Trish Lowney, executive director at Syracuse University’s Office of Sponsored Programs, has been appointed assistant vice president for strategic research development. Lowney’s appointment, made by Vice President for Research Gina Lee-Glauser, was effective Aug. 1, and represents a dedication of…
SU, IBM show how to decrease energy expended in data centers
Syracuse University and IBM on Tuesday, July 26, jointly hosted a strategic gathering of select chief information officers from industry, academe and government to learn how to reduce dramatically the energy consumed in the operation of their data centers.