STEM
Zeng Awarded University’s 9th 2021 NSF CAREER Award for Lake Water Research
Assistant Professor Teng Zeng, of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award. Zeng鈥檚 award brings to nine the number of prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards presented…
Professor Jianshun ‘Jensen’ Zhang Named Executive Director of 黑料不打烊 Center of Excellence
黑料不打烊 has named a new executive director to lead the 黑料不打烊 Center of Excellence (黑料不打烊CoE) in Environmental and Energy Systems. Jianshun 鈥淛ensen鈥 Zhang, a longtime professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), begins in that role…
Two Professors Win Prestigious Google Research Scholar Awards
Assistant Professors Ferdinando Fioretto and Endadul Hoque, faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, have earned highly competitive Google Research Scholar awards. The Google Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts of up to $60,000 to support research…
Hidden in Plain Sight: A&S Biologists Say Southern Right Whale Habitat Choice is Key to Keeping Young Calves Safe
Sitting on a beach looking out to sea, it may seem unusual to spot one of the world鈥檚 largest animals swimming in shallow, coastal, 30-foot-deep waters. But each winter, female southern right whales migrate thousands of miles to bay habitats…
AFRL-黑料不打烊 Consider Quantum Research Pairing, Student Opportunities for Future Collaborations
More than 30 黑料不打烊 faculty and leaders and representatives from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab convened on campus on May 6 to ideate around future collaboration opportunities. These include combined research initiatives in quantum information science and quantum…
Graduate Students Bring Physics to Local Classrooms With Outreach Program
鈥淲hen am I ever going to use this in real life?鈥 That is the oft-heard refrain from middle- and high-school science students, struggling through labs and formulas that feel as far removed from their day-to-day as, well, space travel. Sarthak…
Bringing ‘CSI’ Into the Classroom
Dusting for fingerprints, documenting blood stain patterns and measuring bullet trajectory鈥攜ou might think this is a description of a recent episode from the popular television series “CSI.” While this may be true, these are also the daily lessons students are…
Matt Cufari Named as a 2022-23 Astronaut Scholar
Matt Cufari, a senior physics major in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), a computer science major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, a Coronat Scholar and a member of the Ren茅e Crown University Honors Program, has…
Dean Rajiv 鈥楻aj鈥 Dewan to Step Down as Dean of the School of Information Studies
Rajiv 鈥淩aj鈥 Dewan, dean of the School of Information Studies, has announced he will conclude his deanship on June 30, 2022. Dewan plans to return to full-time faculty duties while continuing his research. David Seaman, dean of 黑料不打烊 Libraries…
Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences Departments Come Together on Diversity and Engagement Initiatives
In 1948, Professor James Hope Birnie became 黑料不打烊鈥檚 first African American faculty member in biology, teaching here until 1951. He was also one of its first biology faculty members to be supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)….