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Chemists鈥 Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes
Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…
Inauguration Symposium to Address What Makes a University Great
As part of the inauguration festivities on Friday, April 11, Chancellor Kent Syverud has invited a distinguished and diverse panel of SU experts to participate in a thoughtful conversation about 鈥淕reat Universities in the Next 25 Years.鈥 The symposium will…
Research Computing Renaissance at SU
Recent developments in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 OrangeGrid and Academic Virtual Hosting Environments (AVHE)鈥攂oth centrally managed by Information Technology and Services (ITS)鈥攊ncrease the University鈥檚 resources for compute intensive academic research, and allow SU鈥檚 researchers to tackle new and greater computational tasks, get…
SU Advance to Host Discussion on Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
SU Advance will present 鈥淒o Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower,鈥 as part of its Conversations on Equity and Excellence series on Monday, March 31, at 2:30 p.m. in the Maxwell School鈥檚 Public Events Room, 220 Eggers…
Wind Power Can Be Cost-Comparable, New Analysis Reveals
The costs of using wind energy and natural gas for electricity are virtually equal when聽accounting for the full private and social costs of each, making wind a competitive energy聽source for the United States, according to a new study on the…
Getting to Know: Astrophysicist Jedidah Isler
Jedidah Isler was interested in the heavens from the time she was 11 or 12. She had a telescope as a kid, which her sister bought her for her birthday one year. But she didn鈥檛 get a chance to pursue…
SU Biologists Use Sound to Identify Breeding Grounds of Endangered Whales
Remote acoustic monitoring among endangered whales is the subject of a major article by two doctoral students in The College of Arts and Sciences. Leanna Matthews and Jessica McCordic, members of the Parks Lab in the Department of Biology, have…
Gump to Continue Leading Undergraduate Program for Trauma Research with Veterans
Falk Family Professor of Public Health Brooks Gump will continue leading a program this summer for undergraduate veterans and non-veterans (five openings for each) interested in becoming trauma researchers. Gump was one of six faculty from three upstate New York…
We All Bring Something Personal to Our Workspaces
鈥淭ina鈥檚鈥 office is a riot of orange. Next door, 鈥淒ave鈥 has just a few photos of himself, his wife and their dogs.Their offices may look very different, but they are both demonstrating what Associate Professor of Management Kris Byron contends鈥攖he widespread tendency to personalize one鈥檚 workspace is highly meaningful.
Physics Professor Lisa Manning Named Sloan Research Fellow
M. Lisa Manning, assistant professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, studies the mechanics of how biological cells move and grow, and how granular materials fail. As an early career scientist, she is being recognized for her…