Binghamton’s IEEC gets $10 million vote of confidence from New York: Governor Pataki names BU one of 10 Centers for Advanced Technology
Binghamton University's Integrated Electronics Engineering Center will receive about $10 million in state support over 10 years as a result of being again named a state Center for Advanced Technology earlier this month. The designation refuels the IEEC, positioning it to continue to grow its successes over the next decade, said IEEC Director Bahgat Sammakia. Read more
BU research center gives Bush Administration C- on human rights report card
Graded on a curve against other recent administrations, the Bush Administration scores a C- (minus) for its promotion of humans rights at home and abroad, according to the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University, which today issued its first annual Presidential Human Rights Performance Report Card. Read more
Harpur professor delves into discussion of science and religion
Sandra D. Michael, professor of biological sciences and the department's director of graduate studies, says yes. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recently finished a four-year term on their Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER), a committee established in 1995 that seeks to increase the level of scientific understanding in religious communities and promote multidisciplinary study of the ethical and religious implications of developments in science and technology. Read more
Innovation Summit
More than 75 faculty, graduate students and industry representatives participated in Innovation Summit, a half-day event cosponsored by NYSTAR, Binghamton University’s Division of Research, and the Greater Binghamton Coalition on May 18 at the Regency Hotel in Binghamton. Read more
Inspirational evolution: Tracing the taproot of religion
Nearly 30 years after proposing the once-heretical, now widely accepted notion of multilevel selection, BU biologist David Sloan Wilson is again taking on giants. In his latest book, Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society, released in 2002, Wilson proposes an evolutionary theory of religion that shakes both evolutionary biology and social theory at their foundation. Read more
Rats race to ease fetal alcohol syndrome: BU professor uncovers clues that could improve outcomes for afflicted children
A Binghamton University psychology professor is working with drunken rats to prove that the manifestations of fetal alcohol syndrome, until now thought to be a chronic condition, are in some cases reversible. Her work could lead to improved outcomes for hundreds of thousands of children suffering from the leading known preventable cause of mental retardation and birth defects. Read more
Securing digital imagery from fakery
Binghamton steganography expert Jessica Fridrich was featured in the July 22 edition of The New York Times in the article “For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum.” Read more
