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Lender Center Student Fellows Researching Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry

Monday, February 13, 2023, By John Boccacino

These days, it’s hard to go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI). Predictive text offers to finish our web searches and our text messages. AI learning-based software can produce everything from research papers to poetry, solving complex math equations to…

STEM

ECS Students Invited to Study Abroad at the Crossroads of Europe

Tuesday, February 7, 2023, By Alex Dunbar

The Syracuse University center in Strasbourg, France, offers an incredible study abroad experience for College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) students. Located in western France on the border of Germany, Strasbourg is centrally located with easy access to Switzerland,…

Campus & Community

SOURCE Opens New Round of Applications for Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Thursday, January 26, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Undergraduate students seeking funding to work with faculty mentors on research and creative projects can apply for those opportunities in February and March. Students interested in funding for summer 2023 and/or academic year 2023-24 should submit an Intent to Apply…

Campus & Community

Lifetime Achievement Honor for Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment

Thursday, January 19, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment in the Maxwell School, has received the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Lifetime Achievement Honor. Monmonier has made “outstanding contributions to geographic research, most notably in the fields of cartography…

Health & Society

Can Kelp Help? Research Examines Dairy Farmer, Dairy Nutritionist Attitudes on Adding Feed Additive to Cut Methane Emissions

Thursday, December 22, 2022, By Diane Stirling

While the majority of climate change research focuses on reducing and capturing carbon dioxide, less attention has been paid to methane emissions, despite the gas having 30 times the warming effect. Over a quarter of the United States’ total methane…

Campus & Community

EES Professor Recognized by the Geological Society of America

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

Christopher Scholz, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), is the recipient of the 2022 Israel C. Russell Award from the Geological Society of America’s (GSA’s) Limnogeology Division. Presented to only one researcher each year, the award recognizes outstanding research,…

STEM

Math Department Sees Significant Grant Support for 2022-23

Monday, November 28, 2022, By News Staff

Joining Minghao Rostami’s prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant, which started this August and runs for five years, three other professors in the Department of Mathematics—Jani Onninen, Dan Coman and Lixin Shen—were awarded NSF grants for their ongoing work, and two…

Arts & Culture

A Passion for Classic Hollywood Cinema

Monday, November 28, 2022, By Caroline K. Reff

Growing up in Peoria, Illinois, Associate Professor Will Scheibel didn’t have access to many foreign or indie films found in art houses. But, as a teenager working at a library and video store, what he did have available to him was a…

After the opioid settlement, what to do with the money?

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

The two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, CVS Health and Walgreens, plan to pay $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the destructive impact opioids have had on communities. Additionally, the New York attorney general announced that the state will…

Campus & Community

Update on 2023 Health Plan Contributions

Thursday, October 27, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Colleagues: Next Monday, we will begin the annual open enrollment process for employee benefit selections for 2023. Ahead of that, I am writing today to provide an update on how the University plans to address rising health care costs,…