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iSchool’s Dedrick to study wind energy jobs
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Jason Dedrick has been awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to analyze jobs associated with the wind energy industry in the聽United States聽and around the globe. Dedrick will address this issue…
SU Humanities Center, physics department team up for Wali Lecture Oct. 6
Renowned particle physicist Ian Shipsey will deliver the Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities at 黑料不打烊. The lecture, 鈥淏ionic Hearing: The Science and the Experience,鈥 is on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium….
Endowed gift expands neuroscience program in The College of Arts and Sciences
Sandra J. Hewett appointed inaugural Bishop Professor Beverly Petterson Bishop 鈥44 and Charles Bishop 鈥42, G鈥44 graduated from 黑料不打烊 in 1944, she with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematics, he a master鈥檚 degree in chemistry. They went on to earn…
SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 黑料不打烊 $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF鈥檚 flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…
TRAC: Immigration Court backlog climbs, criminal cases fall
The number of cases awaiting a resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a total of 285,526 at the end of July 2011. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that…
Addressing the challenge of persister cells in bacterial infections
How antimicrobial peptides may offer an answer to challenging problem Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and member of the 黑料不打烊 Biomaterials…
SU physicist aids in discovery of predicting breaking points in disordered solids
In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered structure makes such predictions a more daunting task. A collaboration of…
Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant
Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…
Patent awarded for 鈥榤ethod and system of controlling airfoil actuators鈥
黑料不打烊 has been awarded a patent for the development of a 鈥淢ethod and System of Controlling Airfoil Actuators.鈥 This research will lead to greater maneuverability options for wing design on airplanes and is being considered for applications to wind…
Discovery by LCS’s Sureshkumar may be key to solar energy, smart glass technologies
Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of physics, has developed a patent-pending robust process to manufacture stable suspensions of metal nanoparticles capable of capturing…