$400K HUD grant supports BU-community outreach to center city neighborhoods
As soon as the contracts are signed Allison Alden will be looking to rent space in downtown Binghamton and to hire a director for the Center City Coordination (C3) Project that she hopes will focus myriad efforts to revitalize the area. Read more
$736K NYSTAR award to boost faculty-researcher recruitment, biotechnology initiative
Efforts to recruit a senior faculty researcher to develop an important Binghamton biotechnology initiative got a major boost last week with the announcement that the University will receive a $736,000 faculty development grant through the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research. 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
Bioengineering: A new program for a new millennium
As engineering and biology programs across the country come under fire for educating students for a bygone era, Binghamton University is launching a bioengineering program designed to teach students to solve the complex problems of the 21st century. Read more
New findings on early man put Rightmire in world limelight
Fossil skulls found beneath a medieval village in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have raised questions about the identity of the first hominids to be intercontinental travelers and set in motion the migrations that would eventually lead to human occupation of the entire planet. And G. Philip Rightmire, a BU paleoanthropologist, has been right in the middle of the monumental event. 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
