Matt Gervais is unavoidably attuned to laughter. “I sometimes hear my own laughter and have to ask myself, ‘Why?’ That wasn’t even funny,” he said.

A three-year, $530,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will give Binghamton University researchers better access to technology that
will help in solving computationally demanding problems. The grant, combined with approximately $100,000 from the Binghamton University Research Foundation, will be used to purchase a 64-node high-performance cluster - basically a group of computer processors that can work together -- for the Computer Science Department’s Grid Computing Research Laboratory.

Researchers at Binghamton University have a first-ever opportunity to determine if Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer can be spread to humans who ingest “infected” meat.

Binghamton University today joined with Congressman Sherwood L. Boehlert (R - NY) to announce a second grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support the University’s Center City Coordination (C3) Project that focuses on a variety of efforts to revitalize the center city of Binghamton.

If you don't exercise, you increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, an ailment that health officials say has reached epidemic levels. Leann Lesperance is looking for ways to improve the odds against that without anyone breaking a sweat. An assistant research professor of bioengineering in Binghamton University's Watson School of Engineering and a pediatrician with Binghamton Pediatric Center, Lesperance is leading a team that's exploring whether micromechanical stimulation to the feet can help improve the way the body uses glucose.