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(Aug. 28, 2025)

Summer Research: Major Impact

Step into the labs where students spent their summer developing research-driven responses to global challenges, blending curiosity with impact.

microscopic view of Kupffer’s vesicle

(Aug. 18, 2025)

Forces Shape Organs

Researchers have discovered that the slow, steady physical forces of tissues pushing and pulling on developing organs are just as important as genes and biochemistry in shaping how organs form in animal embryos.

Depiction of temporary condensates under stress conditions. In magenta is one of our target proteins of interest, UBQLN2, and in green is a stress granule (condensate) marker. The bottom row is a merge containing blue for the nucl

(Aug. 7, 2025)

Protein Droplets: A New Way to Understand Disease

Syracuse University scientists are exploring how our cells use tiny, temporary droplets to gather, fix or degrade damaged proteins in a new multidisciplinary research effort that could have implications in treating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS.

Person being interviewed on a sidewalk.

(July 30, 2025)

When I Think of Freedom…

Alexis Kirkpatrick, a biology major, forensic science minor and undergraduate research assistant for Project Mend, reflects on a recent public reading and workshop highlighting the creative work of individuals impacted by the criminal legal system.

A closeup image of a sculpin.

(April 9, 2025)

Microscopic Modification, Enhanced Attachment?

Researchers from Syracuse University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette discovered tiny features on sculpins’ fins which may enable them to cling firmly in harsh underwater environments.

Eva Legge

(March 7, 2025)

Biology Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious National Honors to Study Fungi’s Role in Forest Health

Eva Legge has been named a Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award winner, a Mollie Beattie Visiting Scholar and was also awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

(Jan. 14, 2025)

Innovative Researchers Join A&S In Spring 2025

Meet the new professors joining the College of Arts and Sciences this spring.

Three people standing together outside with a building in the background.

(Oct. 15, 2024)

NSF Grant in Biology Aims to Boost STEM Student Retention through Hands-On Research

Professors in the Department of Biology have received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site grant to host students from other institutions for immersive summer research at Syracuse.