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Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, April 16

Wednesday, April 16, 2014, By Keith Kobland

[View the story “SU in the News: Wednesday, April 16” on Storify] SU in the News: Wednesday, April 16 The following stories mention Syracuse University or quote one of our faculty, staff, or students. Storified by SyracuseUNews· Wed, Apr 16…

Health & Society

Grad Student Aims to Find Research Answers on Alcohol for African Americans

Tuesday, April 15, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

It turns out that blacks don’t use alcohol that much compared to other groups. Previous research shows that they start drinking later, and then don’t drink as much as whites, for example.

Professors Test Boundaries of ‘New Physics’ with Discovery of Four-Quark Hadron

Monday, April 14, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in The College of Arts and Sciences have helped confirm the existence of exotic hadrons—a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. Their finding is the subject of a forthcoming article, prepared by the…

STEM

SU Plays Key Role in Search for Elusive Dark Matter

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from The College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of…

‘Changing Sports, Changing Lives’ Documentary World Premiere April 28

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Students enrolled in SPM 300, “The History of Sport,” have spent the 2013-14 academic year focusing their research efforts on sports that have been adapted to transform and enrich the lives of athletes with physical disabilities. In the fall semester,…

Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…

Campus & Community

Participants Needed for Research Project on Health Behaviors Among African-American College Students

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By News Staff

We invite you for participation in the research project “Health Behaviors among African American College Students.” This study was designed to better understand determinants of health behaviors in college students of African descent. College students of African descent have not…

IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…

11th Annual Whitman Day on April 9 to Feature Keynote by Robert Fagenson ’70

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

The Whitman School of Management will host its 11th annual Whitman Day on April 9 in honor of the school’s namesake, Martin J. Whitman ’49. Robert B. Fagenson ’70 will deliver the keynote address, “The New York Stock Exchange 222…

Campus & Community

Research Computing Renaissance at SU

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Christopher C. Finkle

Recent developments in Syracuse University’s OrangeGrid and Academic Virtual Hosting Environments (AVHE)—both centrally managed by Information Technology and Services (ITS)—increase the University’s resources for compute intensive academic research, and allow SU’s researchers to tackle new and greater computational tasks, get…