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Art Museum Faculty Fellows Leverage Collections to Enhance Teaching
Four faculty members have been named 黑料不打烊 Art Museum Faculty Fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. The fellows program, now in its fourth year, supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum鈥檚 collection in University instruction….
New Study Reveals Ozone鈥檚 Hidden Toll on America鈥檚 Trees
A new nationwide study reveals that ozone pollution鈥攁n invisible threat in the air鈥攎ay be quietly reducing the survival chances of many tree species across the United States. The research, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres is the first…
Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Enthusiasts
A friendly competition is brewing in the corner of a basement classroom in Link Hall during the annual STEM Trekkers summer program, where students are participating in a time-honored ritual: seeing who can build a paper airplane that travels the…
Jianshun ‘Jensen’ Zhang Named Interim Department Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) is excited to announce that Professor Jianshun 鈥淛ensen鈥 Zhang has been appointed interim department chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE), as of July 1, 2025. Zhang serves as executive director of…
Traugott Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Bing Dong to Present at Prestigious AI Conference
Professor聽Bing Dong聽was recently selected to lead a workshop on artificial intelligence (AI) at聽NeurIPS, the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems. Founded in 1987, NeurIPS is one of the most prestigious annual conferences dedicated to machine learning聽and聽AI聽research. Dong鈥檚 workshop…
Philanthropy Driven by Passion, Potential and Purpose
Ken Pontarelli 鈥92 credits the University for changing his life, opening up opportunities to pursue his passions and achieve professional success that allows him to focus on the public good. In return, he and his wife, Tracey, are paying it…
Student Innovations Shine at 2025 Invent@SU Presentations
Eight teams of engineering students presented designs for original devices to industry experts and investors at Invent@SU Final Presentations. This six-week summer program allows students to design, prototype and pitch their inventions to judges. During the program, students learn about…
WiSE Hosts the 2025 Norma Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Undergraduate Research Prize Award Ceremony
This spring, Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) held its annual Norma Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony. WiSE was honored to host distinguished guest speaker Joan-Emma Shea, who presented 鈥淪elf-Assembly of the Tau Protein: Computational Insights Into Neurodegeneration.鈥 Shea…
Inaugural Meredith Professor Faculty Fellows Announced
Three professors have been named Meredith Professor Faculty Fellows. Part of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorship Program, the Faculty Fellows program was launched this year. Fellows will work in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning…
ECS Professor Pankaj K. Jha Receives NSF Grant to Develop Quantum Technology
Detecting single photons鈥攖he smallest unit of light鈥攊s crucial for advanced quantum technologies such as optical quantum computing, communication and ultra-sensitive imaging. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the most efficient means of detecting single photons and these detectors can count…