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Student Offers Free Film Workshop for Youth on the South Side

Monday, April 29, 2019, By Joyce LaLonde

A young woman sits in an office chair with her laptop on her lap. She opens the laptop. The camera pans across the back of the laptop, then zooms in on the woman’s eyes. Her eyes are wide open; she…

Media, Law & Policy

INSCT Welcomes Five National Security Experts as Distinguished Fellows

Monday, April 29, 2019, By Martin Walls

The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT)—a collaboration between the College of Law and the Maxwell School—has added five senior national security experts to its academic and advisory leadership team. These distinguished fellows—drawn from the upper echelons of the…

Arts & Culture

Conversations About Beauty: New Book by Dean’s Professor Harvey Teres Probes ‘Unseen Power of Aesthetic Experience’

Sunday, April 28, 2019, By Rob Enslin

People’s encounters with beauty is the subject of a new book by Harvey Teres, Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). “Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: Somebody Loves Us All” (Common Ground…

STEM

BioInspired Institute Brings Together Faculty with Related Research Interests from Across the University

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Eileen Korey

Hiring of faculty is underway for the newly named BioInspired Syracuse: Institute for Material and Living Systems. BioInspired Syracuse (previously referred to as Bio-enabled Science and Technology) is one of the previously announced seven multidisciplinary research clusters that will bring…

STEM

Yona Lei Named Recipient of the 2019 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By News Staff

Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) has announced that Yongna (Yona) Lei, a senior majoring in biochemistry and minoring in philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the 2019 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize. Norma…

Campus & Community

Academic Strategic Plan: Creating an Unsurpassed Student Experience

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Shannon Andre

A core theme of the Academic Strategic Plan (ASP), creating an unsurpassed student experience is a priority for Syracuse University as we aim to prepare students for future success. The efforts to support this component of the ASP are well…

Campus & Community

University College Announces Student HEOP Honors

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Eileen Jevis

Syracuse University’s Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) presented its annual academic awards on April 19 in the Schine Student Center. HEOP is a special admission program for part-time students whose financial and educational backgrounds would prohibit them from regular admission…

Media Tip Sheets

LIGO Livingston Detector Catches Binary Neutron Star Merger, Says Physics Professor

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the LIGO Livingston detector and VIRGO detector captured another binary neutron star merger Stefan Ballmer is an associate professor of physics at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Below, he answers four key questions about the LIGO/VIRGO detection,…

Media, Law & Policy

Bergman, Rutledge to Co-chair 2019 Mirror Awards Ceremony

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Nomi M. Bergman, president of Advance/Newhouse, and Thomas M. Rutledge, chairman and CEO of Charter Communications, will serve as co-chairs for the 2019 Mirror Awards ceremony, to be held June 13 in New York City. The awards, sponsored by the Newhouse…

Campus & Community

Celebrate the Earth at Earthfest

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By News Staff

Earthfest is Sunday, April 28, from noon to 4 p.m. in the Thornden Park Amphitheater. The sustainability-themed music and arts festival celebrates Earth Day, sustainability on the Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) campuses, and…