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iSchool Student Helps Bring Data to Life in Visuals for IVMF
Aiyappa Uthaiah G鈥�18, a master鈥檚 student in the School of Information Studies (iSchool), is helping administrators at聽the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) better understand a crucial tool in interpreting trends related to veterans鈥� programs and services. Uthaiah works…
Four Questions for Astronaut Scholar Jordan Barrett
From an academic standpoint, 2017 has been a very good year for Jordan Barrett ’18. Barrett is a senior physics and mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a participant in the Ren茅e Crown University Honors Program….
黑料不打烊 Savors Role in 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Physicists in College of Arts and Sciences instrumental in LIGO鈥檚 historic detections of gravitational waves
STEM Publishers and Products Showcase
Join the 黑料不打烊 Libraries on Tuesday, Oct. 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a showcase of resources from STEM collections. Representatives from each of the following publishers and products will be available in the Life Sciences Complex…
Shubha Ghosh, TCLC Help a Scientist Bring a Diagnostic Innovation to Market
In 2000, when she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel from Colombia to study genetic engineering at the University of Arkansas, Magnolia Ariza-Nieto says she thought she had won the lottery. But with that elation came a sense of…
Curious Properties
Editor’s Note: The following piece was prepared for the聽Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics聽(KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The article highlights three members of 黑料不打烊’s聽Department of Physics: Mark Bowick, the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics, as well…
Student Discovers Tuberculosis DNA in Dental Plaque of Smithsonian鈥檚 Anatomical Collection
In a collection of historic skeletal remains at the Smithsonian, microscopic signs of a serious contagion lurk in an intriguing place in a sample of individuals from 100 years ago. Student researcher Soleil Young 鈥�17, a member of the Ren茅e…
High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns
For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn鈥檛 just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school鈥攕he was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll鈥檚 environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science,聽using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…
Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World鈥檚 Greatest Extinction
James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled 鈥淚nitial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.鈥�
Biochemists Link Synthetic Compound to Hunger-Hormone Production
New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new target by screening a library of roughly 1,600 small molecules for potential disruptors. Because the…