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STEM

A Moral Vision of Science: Physicist Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 Believes Science and Morality are Inextricably Linked

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 credits his longevity to luck and good genes. “I’ve always had a healthy constitution,” says the 88-year-old scientist and Holocaust survivor, who is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers…

Campus & Community

Dissertation, Public Humanities Fellows Advance Student-Centered Research

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Cognitive experience. Romantic legalism. Educational equality. Authentic writing. These are some of the themes of this year’s research by Dissertation and Public Humanities Fellows in the Syracuse University Humanities Center. Based in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), the…

Arts & Culture

Museum Studies Students, Faculty Bring 238-Piece ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Exhibition to Life

Tuesday, November 27, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

Hannah Barber hopes to be a collections manager after her December 2018 graduation from the Graduate Program in Museum Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Design. Thanks to the University’s Robert Shetterly exhibition, she…

STEM

Ph.D. Student Earns American Heart Association Fellowship for Stem Cell Research

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

Plansky Hoang ’15, a graduate research assistant in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), has been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. Hoang is a researcher in the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute—working…

STEM

Tavlarides Awarded DOE Grant for Nuclear Research on Capturing Radioactive Gases

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

Nuclear power plants supply more than 30 percent of the world’s electricity, helping reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. However, with nuclear reactors operating around the globe, treating the waste they generate is an ongoing concern. For the past six…

Arts & Culture

University Set to Open Massive 238-Painting Exhibition, ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth,’ with Accompanying Public Discussion Hosted by Tanner Lecture Series, University Lectures

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

All 238 paintings in Robert Shetterly’s masterwork portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship” will be on public display for the first time en masse Nov. 29-Dec. 14 at Syracuse University. And the artist himself will…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School Among the First to Offer Pilot Program in Concussion Reporting Training

Tuesday, November 20, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Alumnus Bob Costas ’74 and professor of practice Olivia Stomski helped develop the program in partnership with the Concussion Legacy Foundation The first-ever concussion reporting training program was piloted at the Newhouse School this fall. The three-hour Concussion Reporting Workshop,…

STEM

iSchool Researchers to Study Election-Related Misinformation on WhatsApp

Monday, November 19, 2018, By J.D. Ross

A pair of researchers from the Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have received a research award from the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging service to study the issues of misinformation transmitted over the…

Campus & Community

TEDx Syracuse University Issues Call for Speakers

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, By News Staff

Are you exploring an innovative idea or concept that has yet to reach its full potential? Are you pursuing interesting projects in your local community? Do you want to spark change in the lives of people? The student organizers at TEDx…

Veterans

Meet the 2018 Syracuse University Tillman Scholars

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

Established following his death in April 2004 while he was serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan, the Pat Tillman Foundation invests in the future of military veterans and their spouses through academic scholarships at select universities. One of…