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Three faculty members have been recognized as Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2023, a high professional honor conferred on less than 0.1% of the organization’s membership annually. Wenliang (Kevin) Du and Vir Phoha, both professors of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Britton Plourde, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been elevated to that designation. Read more.

Hamid Ekbia, professor of informatics, cognitive science, data science and international studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has been appointed as University Professor at Syracuse University and will serve as the next director of its Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI). Ekbia, who is also director of Indiana University’s Center for Research on Mediated Interaction (CROMI), succeeds Jamie Winders, associate provost for faculty affairs and professor of geography in the Maxwell School. Winders served as the founding director of the institute. Read more.

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recently announced that Seyeon Lee, an associate professor of environmental and interior design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, received a 2022 AASHE Sustainability Award for outstanding research in higher education sustainability. Lee won the award with Suyeon Lee of Seoul National University for the journal article “University leadership in climate mitigation: reducing emissions from waste through carbon pricing,” which was published on Aug. 13, 2021, in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. The paper aims to investigate the potential impact of internal carbon pricing on emission reduction in higher education institutions, which are major emitters of greenhouse gas emissions. Read more.

Emily Wiemers, associate professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School, is the principal investigator for a COVID-19-related research project that is expected to receive up to $2.2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the next five years. The project, “Tracing the Health Consequences of Family Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” examines how the economic and health effects of the pandemic rippled across generations in American families. Marc A. Garcia, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, is a co-investigator, along with I-Fen Lin of Bowling Green State University, Judith Seltzer of the University of California, Los Angeles, and V. Joseph Hotz of Duke University. Read more.

More than 120 people turned out for the inaugural BioInspired Institute Research Symposium at Syracuse University. Highlights included multiple poster presentations, where nearly 60 students shared results of their hands-on research. “BioInspired is committed to addressing real-world problems through health, medicine and materials innovation,” says Director M. Lisa Manning, whose institute partners with SUNY Upstate Medical University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. “These kinds of events champion discovery while fostering a sense of community.” Read more.