Binghamton's Santos looking for ways to shield components in lead-free electronics manufacturing
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2004
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," says the old adage. But in a manufacturing process, when temperatures climb higher than certain components can withstand, the solution isn't as simple as decamping for a cooler room.
Hiring initiative unveiled
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2004
A major faculty hiring initiative, allocating $3 million dollars over three years for hiring new faculty, is expected to help ramp up research, scholarship and creative activity across and at the intersections of the disciplines.
History in the making: BU scholars aim to improve U.S. history education in public schools
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2004
Three years ago, Thomas Dublin, professor of history, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, distinguished professor of history, began an ambitious project to improve the way American history is taught in area schools. This year, the co-directors of the Center for Teaching of American History have been awarded a follow-up grant of $983,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to expand their efforts.
Lenzenweger study: Personality disorders may change
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2004
Personality disorder symptoms are supposed to be stable, enduring and persistent across the life span. However, the work of Mark Lenzenweger, Binghamton University professor of psychology, as well as research performed at Harvard University, shows evidence that such disabling psychiatric conditions are flexible and appreciable change is possible over time.
Mazrui traveled the globe for latest honors
Every year as fall approaches, small talk seems to revolve around the question of "Where did the summer go?" Some years it's been too dry, others, as in this year, too wet. Yet it always seems to fly by. And fly, it did, for Ali Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities and director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies.