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![Ballmer portrait](/media/images/stefan-ballmer-portrait-original.59914ec5.fill-150x150.jpg)
(Oct. 14, 2021)
A&S Physicist Stefan Ballmer Named APS FellowThe APS recognized Ballmer for his role in designing gravitational-wave detectors and interpreting their observations.
![The protein vimentin, pictured in green, helps protect a cell’s nucleus and DNA during migration.](/media/images/Picture-vimentin.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.png)
(Oct. 12, 2021)
Modeling Cellular MigrationA team of A&S physicists develop one of the first 3D simulations capturing how cells containing the protein vimentin move through body tissue.
![Jennifer Ross](/media/images/Ross-Jennifer.af97d1df.fill-150x150.jpg)
(Oct. 1, 2021)
A&S Physicist Part of a Five-University Team Programming Biological Cells to Design Futuristic MaterialsThe group’s NSF-funded project will provide a framework for the design of synthetic materials that accomplish biological functions.
![Portrait of Kameshwar Wali.](/media/images/1280px-Kameshwar_C._Wali_New_York_.5fadf49d.fill-150x150.jpg)
(Sept. 22, 2021)
The Kashi and Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture Presents Wildlife Conservation Scientist Krithi K. Karanth September 27The annual lecture was renamed this year to honor Kameshwar C. Wali's late wife, Kashi.
![Jennifer Ross](/media/images/Ross-Jennifer.af97d1df.fill-150x150.jpg)
(Aug. 9, 2021)
A&S Physicist Awarded NIH Grant to Explore the Enzyme KataninJennifer Ross, professor and department chair of physics, has been awarded a three-year R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the regulation of a key enzyme called katanin.
![Paul Souder portrait.](/media/images/paul-souder_YTZiTD5.538bd6ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
(Aug. 9, 2021)
Physicist Paul Souder Awarded Grant for MOLLER Experiment ResearchSouder’s funding will contribute to his collaborative work on the Measurement of a Lepton-Lepton Electroweak Reaction experiment, or MOLLER experiment.
![Artist rendering of neutron star merger](/media/images/Artist_rendering_of_neutron_star_m.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.jpg)
(Aug. 3, 2021)
Syracuse University Part of Elite Multi-Institutional Physics Research HubDuncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics, is among a group of physicists who received a $3.25M NSF grant to study the properties of neutron stars.
(July 15, 2021)
Faculty and Staff Highlights Summer 2021Highlighting faculty and staff professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.