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SU’s 25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is Jan. 24

Monday, January 11, 2010, By News Staff

The annual celebration is among the largest University-sponsored events in the U.S. to honor King.

SU financial aid office promotes financial literacy through innovative grant program

Monday, January 11, 2010, By News Staff

Sara Miller(315) 443-9038 An innovative grant program developed and offered by the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs at Syracuse University is educating students to enable them to make smart decisions about money while reducing their educational loan burden….

Campus & Community

SU financial aid office promotes financial literacy through innovative grant program

Monday, January 11, 2010, By News Staff

An innovative grant program developed and offered by the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs at SU is educating students to enable them to make smart decisions about money while reducing their educational loan burden.

Health & Society

Maxwell professors receive grant to study health care costs

Friday, January 8, 2010, By News Staff

Two professors from the Maxwell School have been awarded a $278,881 grant from the New York State Health Foundation to identify small area variations in health care among the 10 Hospital Referral Regions (HRRs) within New York State.

Campus & Community

Former SU Treasurer Heiligman dies at age 81

Tuesday, December 29, 2009, By Kevin Morrow

Former Syracuse University Treasurer Richard I. Heiligman, 81, died Dec. 25 in Sarasota, Florida, following a long illness.   After working in the investment business for many years, including Bache and Co. and Bayrock Advisors, he became SU’s treasurer and…

New compounds may control deadly fungal infections

Tuesday, December 22, 2009, By News Staff

SU News Services(315) 443-3784 An estimated 25,000 Americans develop severe fungal infections each year, leading to 10,000 deaths despite the use of anti-fungal drugs. The associated cost to the U.S. health care system has been estimated at $1 billion a…

How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise

Tuesday, December 22, 2009, By News Staff

SU News Services(315) 443-3784 Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical clinics…

Efficient new wireless system developed by Syracuse University scientist can save 10 percent of bandwidth

Tuesday, December 22, 2009, By News Staff

SU News Services(315) 443-3784 Driven by fast-growing use of smart phones and Internet videos, wireless communication among Americans is expanding so rapidly that a tsunami of megabytes could soon threaten to overwhelm the bandwidth available. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has…

SU’s TRAC: Federal prosecutions sharply higher in 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009, By News Staff

The total number of federal criminal filings reached an all time high as a result of a flood of immigration prosecutions.