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Health & Society

Low-Cost Tool in Fight Against Childhood Obesity: Water Dispensers in Schools

Wednesday, January 20, 2016, By Jessica Smith

Making water more available in New York City public schools through self-serve water dispensers in cafeterias resulted in small—but statistically significant—declines in students’ weight, according to new findings. The study, published Jan. 19 in the online issue of JAMA Pediatrics,…

STEM

Students Can Highlight Research, Creative Work at Upcoming ACC Meeting of the Minds

Tuesday, January 19, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Biology student Alexandria Aruck ’16 engaged with students doing research outside of her field for the first time at the ACC’s Meeting of the Minds Conference last year at North Carolina State University. “It was an opportunity for me to…

Health & Society

Claire S. Rudolph, Professor Emerita of Social Work, Dies

Tuesday, January 19, 2016, By News Staff

Professor emerita Claire S. Rudolph died Jan. 5 peacefully at home. A resident of Syracuse since 1952, when she and her husband relocated to continue their graduate studies, she earned a Ph.D. in social sciences from Syracuse University and joined…

Health & Society

New Executive Chef Inspired by Travel, Street Vendors, Mom’s Home Cooking

Tuesday, January 19, 2016, By Keith Kobland

One of the newest members of the Syracuse University community is also one who will have a great impact on students, or at the very least, their appetites.

Campus & Community

Frahm-Hingtgen Named Content and Operations Manager for WAER

Thursday, January 14, 2016, By News Staff

Katherine Frahm-Hingtgen has been named as the new content and operations manager for  WAER-FM. Frahm-Hingtgen comes to WAER from KMST public radio, operated by the University of Missouri-Rolla, where she most recently served as the station’s program director. Like WAER,…

SU, ESF Announce New Academic and Research-Based Relationship

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry President Quentin Wheeler today announced the two schools will …

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Presents ‘Stupid F***ing Bird’

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, By Joseph Whelan

The play is a contemporary mash-up of Anton Chekhov’s modern classic “The Seagull.”

Campus & Community

Lockerbie Scholar Erin McLaughlin ’07 Granted Green Card

Tuesday, January 12, 2016, By Kim Infanti

In 2007, Erin McLaughlin became the first Lockerbie Scholar to earn an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University. Typically, these outstanding scholars from Lockerbie, Scotland, study in Syracuse for only a year, representing the 11 Lockerbie residents who died in the…

STEM

iSchool Ranked #11 for Online Programs by U.S. News and World Report

Tuesday, January 12, 2016, By J.D. Ross

Factors evaluated include selectivity, graduation rates and student services and technologies.

STEM

Physicist Named Brightman Endowed Professor

Monday, January 11, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is being recognized with a new endowed professorship. Duncan Brown, a world-renowned expert in gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics, has been named the inaugural Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics. Brown…