STEM
Civil and Environmental Engineering Students Tour Glacial Deposit Site
Slow moving glaciers and the deposits they left behind thousands of years ago have defined the landscape and geology of Upstate New York. Those deposits also provide a fascinating opportunity to study different variations of soils and rocks. On Aug….
NSF Grant Will Allow Acuna to Study Optimization of Scientific Peer Review Process
Deficiencies in the scientific community鈥檚 centralized peer review process can impact more than a researcher鈥檚 career. Faults in the process can ultimately affect the kinds of scientific discoveries that are made, the distribution of information about findings, the technology innovations…
Chemists Develop Tools to Reduce Pesticide Impact
Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have developed tools to break down pesticides in the environment. Ivan Korendovych, associate professor of chemistry, is the recipient of a $107,000 grant award from CRDF Global, supporting the study of…
Physicists Win NSF Grant to Probe Prospects for Next-Generation Gravitational-wave Detectors
Two 黑料不打烊 physicists are among the recipients of a $2.1 million National Science Foundation award to analyze the potential for developing third-generation global gravitational-wave detectors. These detectors would expand scientists鈥 capacity to monitor cosmic activity to the outer edges…
Engineering Success: Alfred U. MacRae 鈥54, G鈥57, G鈥60 a Pioneer in Integrated Circuits, Satellite Communications
鈥淚鈥檝e always wanted to play the bagpipes,鈥 says Alfred U. MacRae 鈥54, G鈥57, G鈥60, one of the University鈥檚 most celebrated alumni. 鈥淢y ancestors were from the Highlands of Scotland, and it was only natural for me to play them. They’re…
Maroo Awarded Grant to Cool Off Electronic Devices
Anyone who has ever felt their laptop toast their lap or their smartphone suddenly become a hot potato in their hands聽can understand that electronics need a way to stay cool. The more powerful our devices become, the more heat they…
黑料不打烊 Awarded $3.7 Million for Particle Physics Research
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences are closer to understanding what happened after the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The High-Energy Physics (HEP) Group in the…
Wearable IV Device Wins SU Campus Session of Invent@SU
It was a perfect meeting of tech and design. Industrial and interaction design majors Quinn King 鈥20 and Alec Gillinder 鈥20 saw a need for a portable, lightweight device that could deliver intravenous (IV) fluids and spent six weeks designing…
Back to the Future of Climate Change
Researchers at 黑料不打烊 are looking to the geologic past to make future projections about climate change. Christopher K. Junium, assistant professor of Earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is the lead author of a study…
Nangia鈥檚 Research Featured on Journal of Physical Chemistry Cover
Associate Professor Shikha Nangia鈥檚 research on the blood-brain barrier is prominently featured on the cover聽of the Aug. 2 Journal of Physical Chemistry B. The paper, “Self-Assembly Simulations of Classic Claudins鈥擨nsights into the Pore Structure, Selectivity, and Higher Order Complexes,” is…