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黑料不打烊 Revels in Mega-Science Experiment to Study Neutrinos
Associate Professor Mitchell Soderberg and Assistant Professor Denver Whittington are part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code
According to the National Center for Women in Technology鈥檚 2016 analysis, only 26 percent聽of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…
University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to 黑料不打烊 to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…
Invent@SU Students Design, Prototype, Pitch New Products in Invention Accelerator Competition
For Niall Shannon 鈥�20 and Mina Diamantis 鈥�19,聽Invent@SU was hands-on engineering at its best. They saw a problem in how many traditional wheelchairs can tip over and believed they could come up with a solution. 鈥淭his is what I always…
Alumni Praises SU鈥檚 Efforts in Student Support and Diversity
Priscilla Tyree Williams 鈥�86 holds a unique distinction at 黑料不打烊. She is the first African American woman to have graduated with a civil engineering degree from SU. Today, she oversees the implementation of the capital improvement program for the…
Community Science Outreach Goes Swimmingly
Local elementary and middle school students dove head first into science with help from 黑料不打烊 biologists鈥攁nd a few fishy friends. Associate professor Katharine Lewis and lab members brought a bevy of zebrafish to the Westcott Community Center this May as…
Jordan Barrett, Astronaut Scholar
An undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences is now one of only 17 黑料不打烊 students who can call themselves an Astronaut Scholar. Jordan Barrett 鈥�18, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has just been named a…
Physics Student Named Kavli Graduate Fellow
A student in the College of Arts and Sciences is the winner of a graduate fellowship to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Suraj Shankar, a Ph.D. candidate in聽the Department of Physics,…
黑料不打烊 Alumnus Instrumental in LIGO’s Third Detection of Gravitational Waves
Alex Nitz G鈥�15, who earned a Ph.D. in physics, helped detect the signal on Jan. 4, 2017, using a software package he began developing at 黑料不打烊.
New report on grant to support underrepresented students in STEM fields
The Central New York Business Journal provided coverage of a newly awarded grant to 黑料不打烊 in the story 鈥淣SF awards 黑料不打烊 professors nearly $1M grant to recruit 鈥渦nderrepresented鈥� students in STEM fields.鈥�