The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3.6 million grant to a team of researchers from five universities in a project titled “Collaborative Research: Growing Convergence Research: Infection-Resisting Resorbable Scaffolds for Engineering Human Tissue.” The Syracuse University team is led by Shikha Nangia, associate professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), and Dacheng Ren, associate dean of research and Stevenson Endowed Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in ECS. Read more.
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Qinru Qiu Named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Qinru Qiu, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest and most prestigious association of computing professionals. Qiu was selected by her peers for her outstanding scientific contributions to computing. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience and significant achievements in the computing field. Read more.
EES Professor Recognized by the Geological Society of America
Christopher Scholz, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), is the recipient of the 2022 Israel C. Russell Award from the Geological Society of America’s (GSA’s) Limnogeology Division. Presented to only one researcher each year, the award recognizes outstanding research, teaching and service in the field of limnogeology, which involves the study of modern and ancient lake basins around the world. Read more.
Robotics in Motion
On the second floor of Link Hall, Zhenyu Gan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, designs medium-sized robots—namely, bipeds (two legged) and quadrupeds (four legged)—as well as wearable robotic devices. Read more.
A&S Biology Professor Helping to Shape National Science Foundation Funding
Across laboratories in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), the cutting-edge research taking place is made possible with support from federally funded grants. In the last year alone, A&S researchers have received nearly $24 million in support from institutions including the National Science Foundation (NSF). For biology Professor Kari Segraves, the NSF has played a crucial role in her career, starting from her time as a graduate student all the way to her current position as a faculty member. Since joining the Department of Biology in 2005, Segraves has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on five different NSF grants totaling over $2.2 million. Segraves will now pay forward the research opportunities granted to her through the National Science Foundation as she serves as a program director for the NSF’s Population and Community Ecology (PCE) Cluster in the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB). The DEB supports fundamental research on populations, species and communities. In this role, Segraves will shape the direction of PCE research and help set federal research priorities in ecology. Read more.