A team of Clarkson University scientists are using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to record sounds emanating from inside living insects like flies, mosquitoes and ladybugs. The research may help in finding solutions to the problems caused by insect pests.
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer; Martin J. Fisher, the co-founder and CEO of KickStart International; Carl B. Mack, the executive director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE); and J. Craig Venter, founder, chairman, and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, and founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc. addressed Clarkson University graduates in Potsdam, N.Y., Saturday.
A computer model developed by a Clarkson University professor is being used to help federal officials predict the flow of oil and natural gas released by the recent oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
Clarkson University honors student Emily Stefano hopes to advance skateboarding by redesigning one of its biggest and most challenging competitive structures: the MegaRamp.
More than half a century after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, Clarkson University biologist Michael R. Twiss is among a corps of scientists charting the environmental change the Seaway and hydroelectric power projects have wrought.
A Clarkson University professor is developing software programs that will test cybersecurity systems for flaws before they become operational. The National Science Foundation is funding the $1.2 million project, which also involves four other research centers.
Clarkson University researchers are helping the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health study the link between air pollutants and health problems in children in Detroit. The project is examining the relationship between asthma in children and exposures within 150 yards of major highways.
A Clarkson University professor has completed a book on one of the most noted philosophers of the 20th century. Christopher C. Robinson recently published “Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere” with Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press.
When a new student center opens its doors at Clarkson University, it will utilize locally produced concrete blocks more economical, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly than traditional ones. Twenty percent of the Portland cement has been replaced with recycled industrial glass powder.
Toys colored with poisonous lead paint. Hamburger and spinach teeming with salmonella or e-coli. High-profile product recalls have underscored a growing problem for U.S. manufacturers with global supply chains. As supply chains have linked more partners from far-flung locales, corporations have found it more difficult to assure quality. Clarkson University economist Luciana Echazu has developed a promising new theoretical approach in writing contracts to solve that problem.
Partnership awards Conrad Foundation Spirit of Innovation Awards Participants with scholarships to attend Clarkson University and continue learning innovation and entrepreneurship.
Clarkson University President Tony Collins was recently named an honorary senator of the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Clarkson University researchers have developed a novel method of detection of cervical cancer cells using nonspecific adhesion of silica beads to cells.
A Clarkson University professor has received a $277K NSF grant to write the biography of Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896-1969), a controversial human geneticist who worked during Germany's Nazi era. von Verschuer was arguably Germany’s most controversial 20th century human geneticist.
A group of Clarkson University researchers has discovered a previously unknown feature that distinguishes cancer from normal cells. They have identified a critical difference between the surface properties of normal and cancer cells: variation in brushes or tiny "hairs" that cover the cell surface.
The Clarkson University School of Business has a new online MBA program in supply chain management, its signature field of study. U.S. News and World Report has ranked Clarkson's undergrad supply chain management program in the top-20 annually since 2003.
Clarkson University researchers have discovered a new method of protecting teeth from cavities by ultrafine polishing with silica nanoparticles.
The battlefield of the future may react differently to combat injuries, providing instant treatment to wounded soldiers even before a medic reaches their side. Researchers have received funding to create a "field hospital on a chip" "“ a system worn by every soldier that would detect an injury and automatically administer the right medication.
Comedians have made good use of "road kill" in their routines, but a Clarkson University professor began focusing attention on the problem after finding roads in northern New York covered in green sheen from frogs who had been flattened by traffic.
Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and Clarkson University have been awarded $1.4 million from the NSF to expand a program that will teach 9,000 New York high schoolers to design, build, test, deploy and interpret environmental sensors to monitor water quality in the Hudson and St. Lawrence.
Clarkson University's interdisciplinary engineering and management program is breaking new ground by preparing tomorrow's business and technical leaders to incorporate environmental considerations into decision-making.
Students at Clarkson University's School of Business will get a close-up look at the global economy in action, thanks to a new global study requirement implemented this past year.
Clarkson University Economics Prof. Sonmez Atesoglu is available for expert comment on today's Fed rate cut.
A Clarkson University economics professor says that the new benchmark federal funds rate of 4.25% is much too high to get the optimum levels of employment and gross domestic product that the Federal Reserve is looking for.
Nicholas J. Vaugh believes he can successfully integrate his duties as college student by day and city council member by night. The 20-year-old Clarkson University sophomore, who made Ogdensburg, N.Y., history November 6 as the youngest elected city official, will literally be learning on the job.
Clarkson University researchers have developed technology that uses vibrations caused by traffic to power wireless bridge monitor sensors. It is unwieldy to provide batteries for normal wireless sensors that monitor bridges for failure. The Clarkson researchers have found a way around this problem.
A Clarkson University professor, operating under a state-funded research grant, has developed a system that allows for remote monitoring of bridges using a dense network of wireless sensors. The work is part of an effort to increase the way state and county departments of transportation in New York State keep track of its bridge inventory.
A Clarkson University prof has received a $238,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the development of neurons that populate the digestive system. Many digestive diseases, like Hirschsprung's, can develop as a result of abnormalities in digestive neurons and are due to mutations in genes involved in development of neurons.
Santokh S. Badesha, Xerox fellow at the Xerox Corporation; Sandy S. Ginsberg, engineer and construction executive; and Andrew C. Palmer, the Jafar Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Cambridge University, will speak and receive honorary degrees at Clarkson University's 114th commencement on Sunday, May 13.
Clarkson University Physics Professor Igor Sokolov and his team have discovered a method of making the brightest ever synthesized fluorescent silica particles. These nanostructured macroscopic silica particles have potential applications in medicine, forensic science and environmental protection, among many other uses. Sokolov's research is published in the March 5 issue of the scientific journal Small.
Clarkson University researcher and team study microbial ecology of Lake Erie during winter months.
Clarkson University researchers are completing a pilot study on the effects of diesel exposure to students who ride these buses. Their pilot study will characterize diesel exposure in school buses and develop methods for measuring lung function and cardiopulmonary effects in children.
Clarkson University student chapter of Engineers Without Borders is helping St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in Northern New York design and build biodiesel plant to process fuel from used cooking oil generated by Akwesasne Mohawk Casino restaurants. Fuel will operate waste disposal generators and collection vehicles.
Nightly aerial fireworks at Hong Kong Disney may cause problems from asthma sufferers and those with other breathing, health problems.
Cow manure and waste silage are waste products to some, but viable energy sources to Clarkson U. researchers helping farmers meet energy needs. Last year's N.Y. State budget included $1-million for Clarkson to investigate ways that dairy waste from cheese manufacturing and dairy farms can be used as feedstock to produce biogas to generate heat and power.
Scientists are collaborating to provide a chemical analysis of Great Lakes fish tissue. The five-year project will assess levels of mercury, PCBs, dioxin and other harmful chemicals in lake fish. A 1997 report says that 1-3% of women of childbearing age in the U.S. eat fish in quantities sufficient to place their fetuses at risk from mercury exposure.
Clarkson researcher monitors airborne pollutant particles for link between airborne pollution and respiratory ills.
Clarkson researchers will help analyze will provide life cycle analysis (LCA) tools to new cellulosic ethanol plant being built by Mascoma Corp. in Greece, New York. Mascoma received a $14 million grant from New York State.
A board game designed by Clarkson University engineers teaches middle school children about the energy situation in the U. S and how their energy choices directly impact energy conservation measures.
PC Magazine and Princeton Review's 2007 Top 20 Wired Colleges ranks Clarkson #14.
Clarkson scientists will study how Antarctic sea ice cover responds to stresses from wind, ocean waves and temperature-- important info to climatologists and other scientists preparing global climate models. Jr. high students will keep up with the team via a blog with interviews, video and photos.
Clarkson UNiversity collobarates with MHEDA, part of Global Supply Chain Management Education for Interdisciplinary Engineering & Management students.
Evgeny Katz, renowned colloid scientist has become the Milton Kerker Endowed Chair of Colloid Chemistry at Clarkson University. Katz has taught and conducted research in Russia, Spain, Germany and Jerusalem.
Distinguished Chemistry Professor Emeritus Petr Zuman is an incredible person. The popular Web site, a repository for information chronicling the accomplishments of the world's most famous personalities, scientists, leaders, entrepreneurs, rulers, athletes, saints & sages and more, includes the biography of the 80-year-old chemist.
Researchers, academics and high tech companies gather in Lake Placid for annual Chemical-Mechanical Planarization Symposium.
Clarkson University, ranked in top 20 B schools for its Supply Chain Management Program will conduct a Supply Chain Management Seminar for Bus. Execs.
Associate Professor of History Laura Ettinger has published a book titled Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession. The book describes the occupation of the nurse-midwife beginning with its development in the 1920s and through the last century to the role it plays in health care today.
A research team working on the loss of elasticity of skin tissue as we age observed the increasing density of filamentous fibers, known as f-actin, is a major source of the increasing skin rigidity as we grow older. The team has developed a skin cream containing compounds known to interfere with f-actin polymerization, helping skin become softer and look younger.
Clarkson received its 1st ever NEA Grant to preserve the music of Juma Sultan, percussionist for Jimi Hendrix and many jazz greats. Sultan played with Hendrix at Woodstock.
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY will host the 2006 Bioenergy and Rural Economic Development Conference June 21 "“ 23.
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