News

9 Faculty Honored for Excellence in Graduate Education – Congratulations to all faculty, and we also celebrate Dr. Jian Qin, a WiSE faculty member!

Congratulations Mariana L. Perez!

Virtual Reality Pioneer Mary Spio ’98 Helping to Revolutionize the Industry 

Record Five Syracuse University Students Selected for Prestigious 2024 Goldwater Scholarship

Biology Professor Names University’s First Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education Fellow 

BMCE Professor Mary Beth Monroe Receives Young Investigator Award – ECS – Syracuse University – Current Chair of the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize and Memorial Lecture

MAE Professor Yiyang Sun Receives YIP Award – ECS – Syracuse University

Jae Oh and Michelle Blum Named as Associate Deans – ECS – Syracuse University

New-Fashioned Sustainability – ECS – Syracuse University –  Alexis Peña ’16 (Bioengineering) was an early member of WWoCS, went on to get her Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in May 2023, and has started up a new biotech firm “Good Fibes” developing methods for biomanufacturing natural textile fibers using biological building blocks. Their mission encompasses a circular textile economy through material innovation.

Women in Science and Engineering Rise Together, Build the Future

Physics Professor Receives NSF Grant for Work at CERN

Happy Black History Month!

Recognizing and Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month 2023-2024

Physics Professor, Jennifer Schwarz, Honored by the American Physical Society
Congrats to Professor Schwarz on her honorable honor by the American Physical Society!

BioInspired Institute Research Labs Graduate Student Project (Thalma Orado)
Congrats to Thalma Orado, a first-year Ph.D. student in Assistant Professor Era Jain’s drug delivery lab for winning the Best Commercialization Potential award! Read more about Thalma’s research!

Also WiSE wants to congrats Natalie Petryk for awarding the Stevenson Biomaterials Poster Award and Elizabeth Oguntade, who is one of our WiSE Women of Color in STEM Graduate Mentor on the Lightning Talk Award!

Mathematics Professor, Claudia Miller, Received NSF Grants to Study Algebra
Congrats to Professor Miller on her homological algebra work – WiSE Faculty member!

4 STEM Faculty Presented NSF Early-Career Research Awards
Congrats to Dr. Rachel Steinhardt, Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya, Dr. Olga Makhlynets and Dr. Alison Patteson for early career awards!

Qinru Qiu Named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Congrats to Dr. Qinru Qiu, WiSE Faculty Advisor!

A&S Biology Professor Helping to Shape NSF Funding
Congrats to Dr. Kari Segraves!

University Announces Inaugural Renée Crown Honors Professorships
Congrats to Dr. Heidi Hehnly, WiSE Faculty Advisor!

Yousr Dhaouadi: Ph.D. Candidate, GSO President Willing to ‘Follow Every Opportunity’
This interview features former WiSE-FPP Associate Yousr Dhaouadi.

NIH ESTEEMED Grant to Enhance Diversity and Elevate Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering
Congrats to Drs. Shikha Nangia and Julie Hasenwinkel, both WiSE Faculty Advisors! The grant will help fund a program to recruit and train undergraduates from diverse racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Lab Focuses on Curing Brain-Related Diseases
Read about WiSE Faculty Advisor, Dr. Shikha Nangia, and her research. The article also features WiSE-FPP Associate Jingjing Ji.

The Art of Science: Students Participate in University’s First-Ever Bio-Art Class
Read about WiSE Faculty Advisor, Dr. Heidi Hehnly, and her new class offering (along with Dr. Boryana Rossa). The article also features WiSE-FPP Associate Renita Saldanha.

Podcast and Q&A With Speech Language Pathologist Alex Middleton ’22: Providing a Voice to Help People Advocate for Themselves
This interview features WiSE Summer Research participant Alex Middleton.

Eleanor Maine Receives Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Congrats to Dr. Eleanor Maine, WiSE Faculty Advisor!

Lab’s Synthetic Materials Repair Damaged Tissues and Organs
Read about WiSE Faculty member, Dr. Mary Beth Monroe, and her research and how she fosters community and equity in STEM.