$15M Gen•NY•sis grant jumpstarts work at Innovative Technologies Complex
Calling it a “great day for our community,” Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur told state and community leaders that a $15 million grant from the state’s Gen•NY•sis program will jumpstart new biotechnology research initiatives. Read more
22 BU research projects to be featured at Upstate Medical poster session
Twenty-two research projects involving BU faculty and graduate school biomedical researchers are among the 49 presentations that will be displayed at the SUNY Upstate Medical University's 10th annual Clinical Campus Research Poster Session. The session will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21, in the Keeler Building Gymnasium of the Binghamton Psychiatric Center, 425 Robinson St., Binghamton. Read more
Partnership plugs SUNYIT students in to BU electrical engineering program
Binghamton University and the SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome recently announced a jointly-registered transfer program that will allow SUNYIT students to earn a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from BU. Read more
Poet Ruth Stone named National Book Award finalist
Ruth Stone, Bartle professor emerita of English and an active poet since the early 1950s, is among five finalists for the National Book Award in poetry, one of the nation’s top literary prizes. Read more
A nine year partnership-SEHD helps adjust to new world
Helping people with no food, clothing or shelter, assessing abused children, placing children in foster care, dealing with child support issues, determining eligibility for Medicaid or food stamps – those are just some of the issues faced daily by employees in the Broome County Department of Social Services (DSS). Read more
A Poet Among Us
Luiza Franco Moreira, associate professor of Comparative Literature, specializes in twentieth-century Brazilian literature, and is also interested in 20th century literature of North and South America. Her book "Meninos, Poetas e Heróis" ("Children, Poets, and Heroes"), (EDUSP, 2000) explores the ways that poetry participates in cultural and political hegemony, through a discussion of the work of Cassiano Ricardo, a Brazilian poet and political propagandist. The book has been well received. Read more
BU mathematicians take numbers to the ninth level — and a world record
Two Harpur College math professors have taken the concept of a magic square — a mathematical challenge where every row and column in a square add up to the same number — to the ninth level. In doing so they achieved a new world record. Matthias Beck, visiting assistant professor, and Dennis Pixton, associate professor, teamed up to compute the volume of a doubly stochastic matrix, also known as a Birkhoff polytope, of size nine. It took them six days and the power of 30 desktop computers to accomplish the task. Read more
