22 BU research projects to be featured at Upstate Medical poster session

Posted in: Top Stories, Local Spotlight, 2002
Twenty-two research projects involving BU faculty and graduate school biomedical researchers are among the 49 presentations that will be displayed at the SUNY Upstate Medical University's 10th annual Clinical Campus Research Poster Session. The session will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21, in the Keeler Building Gymnasium of the Binghamton Psychiatric Center, 425 Robinson St., Binghamton.

Bioengineering: A new program for a new millennium

Posted in: Top Stories, 2002
As engineering and biology programs across the country come under fire for educating students for a bygone era, Binghamton University is launching a bioengineering program designed to teach students to solve the complex problems of the 21st century.

New findings on early man put Rightmire in world limelight

Posted in: Top Stories, 2002
Fossil skulls found beneath a medieval village in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have raised questions about the identity of the first hominids to be intercontinental travelers and set in motion the migrations that would eventually lead to human occupation of the entire planet. And G. Philip Rightmire, a BU paleoanthropologist, has been right in the middle of the monumental event.

Partnership plugs SUNYIT students in to BU electrical engineering program

Posted in: Top Stories, 2002
Binghamton University and the SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome recently announced a jointly-registered transfer program that will allow SUNYIT students to earn a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from BU.

Poet Ruth Stone named National Book Award finalist

Posted in: Top Stories, Researchers in the News, 2002
Ruth Stone, Bartle professor emerita of English and an active poet since the early 1950s, is among five finalists for the National Book Award in poetry, one of the nation’s top literary prizes.