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Syracuse Alumnus Instrumental in LIGO’s Third Detection of Gravitational Waves
Alex Nitz G’15, who earned a Ph.D. in physics, helped detect the signal on Jan. 4, 2017, using a software package he began developing at Syracuse.
‘Koaville’ Wins Popular Vote for On My Own Time Exhibition
In 1965, Johnny Yinger spent a summer in Hawaii and brought home a piece of Koa wood, a relatively rare tropical wood. He kept it in various basements over the decades, waiting for inspiration to strike. Then, thanks to an…
Musicologist Goes ‘Beyond Boundaries’ with New Book, Trans-Atlantic Research
Amanda Eubanks Winkler knows a thing or two about pushing boundaries. Still basking in the success of her latest edited book, “Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England” (Indiana University Press, 2017), the musicologist is preparing for a…
Monmonier Explores Advances in Mapping under U.S. Patent System
Mark Monmonier’s newest book, “Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History,” examines how developments in the U.S. patent system in the 19th and early 20th centuries have shaped innovations of map use. Monmonier reveals that devices and…
Hollywood Reporter Ranks Drama Department Among Top Five for Undergraduate Study
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has ranked the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama among the top five schools for undergraduate study in its May 24 issue. The department was ranked no. 4, jumping four spots from its…
Maxwell Professor Asks, Where Have Congressional Moderates Gone?
When journalists and pundits talk about the bitter partisanship in Congress today, they tend to point to three culprits: gerrymandering, the influence of big money and primary systems that favor more ideologically pure candidates. But when scholars have tested these…
University of Naples Confers Honorary Degree on Syracuse Mathematician
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is the recipient of an honorary degree from the Federico II University of Naples. Tadeusz Iwaniec, the John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics, received the “Doctor Honoris Causa in Mathematical Engineering”…
Combating Graduate School Stress, One Click at a Time
Like all of Luka Negoita’s Ph.D. work on plant biology, his latest venture began with an experiment. But this time he didn’t investigate the vegetation of central New York, he turned the microscope on the Ph.D. process. “Grad school is…
Summer Course Will Help Participants Develop Mindfulness Practice
In one Syracuse University course this summer, students will engage in creative ways to learn about and incorporate the practice of mindfulness into their lives. “Mindful Communication Skills,” CRS 347, will be offered for six weeks in Summer Session II,…
Students Present on Variety of Topics at ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference
Six students with a variety of research projects—such as community attachment resilience in a deindustrialized city, the effects of using different basketballs in NCAA play and 3D flow visualization in virtual reality—represented Syracuse University at this year’s ACC Meeting of…