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Year in Review: Our favorite things from 2024
December 12, 2024From transformative funding awards and successes in national rankings to celebrated faculty, staff and alumni awards, athletics achievements and an historic eclipse, 2024 was a remarkable year for Susquehanna University.
Neuroscience students selected for national program
October 28, 2024A team of neuroscience students has been selected to participate in a nationally competitive program that will teach them how to communicate the importance of their research to funding agencies, government officials and the media.
New SU-developed app makes water quality testing easy — and free
October 16, 2024Testing the quality of your water just got easier and less expensive thanks to a first-of-its-kind application. The free, easy-to-use app, called Turbidivision, can measure the turbidity, or cloudiness, of water through user-uploaded images.
Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation to support Freshwater Research Institute
October 2, 2024Susquehanna University has received a nearly $600,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to help the Freshwater Research Institute expand environmental education, workforce development and tools for collaborative research.
Research seeks to right American record on lynching
August 6, 2024The historic record of lynching in the United States has been hampered in its accuracy by an unreasonably limited definition of the act and a previous refusal to give credence to historic Black news sources and the work of Ida B. Wells and the NAACP lynching investigative files. Aisha Upton-Azzam, assistant professor of sociology at Susquehanna University, is trying to amend this injustice.
Shedding the light on mixoplankton
July 25, 2024In aquatic ecosystems, microscopic organisms like phytoplankton and mixoplankton form the backbone of the food web. Ecology major Michael Rose ’25 spent his summer investigating these organisms through a research collaboration with professors Sophie Charvet and Jack Holt, focusing on isolating and cultivating key mixoplankton from local water bodies.
Chemistry major interning through National Science Foundation program
July 16, 2024Christina Vo ’25 is one of only eight undergraduate students nationwide selected to participate in a research project at the University of Puerto Rico’s Crystallization Design Institute. The program is funded through the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
Could spiders solve the spotted lanternfly problem?
July 11, 2024Researchers at Susquehanna University are trying to find out if spiders will prey upon spotted lanternflies by feeding the invasive and destructive insect to various species of arachnids.
Marketing literacy: How do shoppers react when they detect deception?
June 5, 2024Hualu Zheng, assistant professor of management and marketing in Susquehanna University’s Sigmund Weis School of Business, studied sale price claims to see how customers reacted when they discovered they weren’t getting the full discount they may have expected.
Hinton presents model for the performance of African American music at predominantly white institutions
May 22, 2024New research from Eric L. Hinton, director of bands and department head and associate professor of music at Susquehanna University, presents a model for the ethical scholarship and performance of African American music in predominantly white institutions.
Exploring MLK’s true beliefs on nonviolence
April 30, 2024The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is widely recognized as a prominent advocate for nonviolence. In a recent piece published in Dialog, A Journal of Theology, Jeffrey K. Mann posits that King’s view of nonviolence was not as absolute as we might think.
Senior Scholars Day continues 50-year tradition
April 25, 2024Nearly 130 students presented research, music and artwork at Susquehanna’s Senior Scholars Day, an event where students showcase the culmination of their years of study and honor the professors who acted as their mentors. The event continues a tradition spanning more than 50 years.