STEM
Black Hole Image Shows Einstein Was Right, Once Again
Today a team of astronomers announced they successfully captured the first direct image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Duncan Brown is the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of…
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Professor’s Research Team Receives Multiple Awards at Society for Biomaterials Conference
Biomedical and chemical engineering Professor聽Mary Beth Monroe attended the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) 2022 meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, with Ph.D. students Anand Vakil, Henry Beaman, Changling Du and Maryam Ramezani, master鈥檚 student Natalie Petryk 鈥21, G鈥22 and undergraduate students Caitlyn…
Viewing a Microcosm Through a Physics Lens
鈥淲hat can physics offer biology?鈥 This was how聽Alison Patteson, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ physics department and a faculty member in the BioInspired Institute, began the explanation of why her physics lab was studying bacteria. In…
University鈥檚 Top Putnam Math Competition Finisher Awarded Inaugural Erd艖s Prize
Junior Connor Ritchie has won the聽Department of Mathematics鈥櫬爄naugural Erd艖s Prize for being 黑料不打烊鈥檚 top finisher in the聽William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The Putnam contest is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada,…
Sasha Valitutti Selected as a 2022 SMART Scholar
Sasha Valitutti, a junior aerospace engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been named a recipient of a Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The award will…
Preserving Aquatic Ecosystems, One Lake at a Time
Svetoslava Todorova is passionate about her work with aquatic ecosystems. For years, she鈥檚 been bringing small groups of her 黑料不打烊 students to Green Lakes State Park, equipped with gear to measure the make-up of the lake and armed with…
黑料不打烊CoE Awards $30,000 to 3 Local Companies for Product Development, Technology Innovation
Three New York State companies have been awarded $30,000 in the first round of the 2022 黑料不打烊CoE Innovation Fund competition. For this round, 黑料不打烊CoE partner companies were invited to submit proposals in 黑料不打烊CoE鈥檚 focus areas of indoor environmental quality and…
Bringing Science Back Home: Ph.D. Candidate Tiffany Hamm Works to Expand STEM Access
Tiffany Hamm, a fourth-year science education doctoral student, formerly taught earth science in her hometown of Bronx, New York. She chose the School of Education to pursue a Ph.D. because she wanted to do more in the field. Making science…
‘Seeing Possibility For Myself’: SUSTAIN Program Continues to Cultivate, Support STEM Talent
In 2017,聽John Tillotson, associate professor and department chair of the聽Department of Science Teaching聽in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), set out to improve upon the country鈥檚 retention rate of college science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors among underrepresented…
Sophomore Emma Liptrap Named a 2022 NOAA-Hollings Scholar
Emma Liptrap鈥檚 passion for environmental engineering began in a parking lot. In her junior year of high school, she set up a shadowing experience with a local engineering firm in her hometown of Salem, New Hampshire. Engineers brought her to…