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Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code
According to the National Center for Women in Technology’s 2016 analysis, only 26 percent of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…
University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to Syracuse University to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…
Invent@SU Students Design, Prototype, Pitch New Products in Invention Accelerator Competition
For Niall Shannon ’20 and Mina Diamantis ’19, Invent@SU was hands-on engineering at its best. They saw a problem in how many traditional wheelchairs can tip over and believed they could come up with a solution. “This is what I always…
Alumni Praises SU’s Efforts in Student Support and Diversity
Priscilla Tyree Williams ’86 holds a unique distinction at Syracuse University. She is the first African American woman to have graduated with a civil engineering degree from SU. Today, she oversees the implementation of the capital improvement program for the…
Community Science Outreach Goes Swimmingly
Local elementary and middle school students dove head first into science with help from Syracuse biologists—and a few fishy friends. Associate professor Katharine Lewis and lab members brought a bevy of zebrafish to the Westcott Community Center this May as…
Jordan Barrett, Astronaut Scholar
An undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences is now one of only 17 Syracuse University students who can call themselves an Astronaut Scholar. Jordan Barrett ’18, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has just been named a…
Physics Student Named Kavli Graduate Fellow
A student in the College of Arts and Sciences is the winner of a graduate fellowship to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Suraj Shankar, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics,…
Syracuse Alumnus Instrumental in LIGO’s Third Detection of Gravitational Waves
Alex Nitz G’15, who earned a Ph.D. in physics, helped detect the signal on Jan. 4, 2017, using a software package he began developing at Syracuse.
New report on grant to support underrepresented students in STEM fields
The Central New York Business Journal provided coverage of a newly awarded grant to Syracuse University in the story “NSF awards Syracuse professors nearly $1M grant to recruit “underrepresented” students in STEM fields.”
STEM Faculty Land Grant to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students
Four Syracuse University professors, led by John Tillotson, associate professor and department chair of science teaching, have received a three-year, $999,719 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support recruitment and retention of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and math…