A new National Science Foundation grant will bring national attention to Binghamton University’s evolutionary studies program. EvoS will serve as a model for a national consortium that will link institutions ranging from major research universities to community colleges in a partnership of programs. The two-year, $300,000 NSF grant is titled “Expanding Evolutionary Studies in American Higher Education.”
Martin J. Murray believes cities in Africa and Asia are creating a new template for urban development. Though some may see them as backward, these are the cities of the future, he argues, with an entrepreneurial spirit and ever-shrinking public spaces. Murray, a professor of sociology at Binghamton University, is the author of a new book, Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid, published by Cornell University Press. The volume will be part of a trilogy of books about Johannesburg, a project that Murray conceived in the mid-1990s after the end of South Africa’s formal system of racial segregation.
Binghamton University will offer two summer programs designed to excite students and teachers about science, math and engineering. The Go Green Institute will offer 50 seventh-graders an intensive hands-on learning experience centered on the theme of a greener living environment, while the Big Ideas in Science Institute will focus on professional development for science teachers.
Movie sequels don’t always do as well at the box office as the original, but they tend to do much better than non-sequels, according to a new study in the July Journal of Business Research. And timing is everything, according to the experts at Binghamton University and Florida Atlantic University: The shorter the period between releases, the better.
Binghamton’s Francis Wu is leading a project that could help scientists around the globe find subsurface faults and better understand how tectonic forces act to build mountains. This knowledge may ultimately enable scientists to predict earthquakes more reliably.
