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Politico

Maxwell Dean and Professor Write Op-Ed on Icebreaker Plan

Tuesday, August 23, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

David Van Slyke, Maxwell School Dean and Professor, Sean O’Keefe, University Professor, and Zachary Huitink, a doctoral candidate, co-authored a piece for Politico “The Coast Guard’s flawed icebreaker plan.”

STEM

Syracuse, Cal State Fullerton Awarded Grant to Enhance Diversity in Astrophysics

Tuesday, August 23, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences are sharing a grant award with their colleagues at California State University, Fullerton, (CSUF) to recruit and expand the number of underrepresented students in gravitational-wave astronomy. Syracuse University professors Duncan Brown and…

STEM

Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Study Collective Behavior of Active Matter

Wednesday, August 17, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to support her ongoing study of active matter—collections of self-driven entities that take energy from the environment to produce coordinated motion. Syracuse’s newest Distinguished Professor,…

Campus & Community

Summer Snaps 2016

Monday, August 15, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

What are you doing on your summer vacation? See how members of the University community are having fun as the summer kicks into gear.

Arts & Culture

Point of Contact Gallery Announces Opening Reception of ‘WOE: Globalized Sadness’

Friday, August 12, 2016, By News Staff

Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month 2016, Point of Contact Gallery is hosting an opening reception for “WOE: Globalized Sadness,” an exhibition by Argentine artist Juan Cavallero on Friday, Sept. 16. The reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. and is…

Campus & Community

McNair Scholars Present Research at Two-Day Symposium

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By Sean Kirst

Roshad Meeks is a self-described “military brat.” His father served in the U.S. Army, and Meeks spent much of his childhood in Germany. He was 11 or 12 when his family returned to Columbus, a little Mississippi city of about…

STEM

M. Cristina Marchetti Named Distinguished Professor

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By Carol Boll

M. Cristina Marchetti, the William R. Kenan Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Distinguished Professor by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly. The distinction is one of the University’s highest honors for…

STEM

Physicists Awarded NSF Grant to Study Cancer-Cell Behavior

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Rob Enslin

M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti and Jennifer Schwarz have been awarded a three-year, $686,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply principles of soft-matter physics to cancer therapy.

Campus & Community

Four Distinguished Alumni to Be Honored at 2016 Arents Ceremony

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By News Staff

The recipients are Jim Brown ’57, James Cunningham ’74, Dr. Robert Jarvik ’68, H’83 and Arielle Tepper Madover ’94.

STEM

Researchers Confirm Marine Animals Live Longer at High Latitudes

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that high-latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics. Their findings are the subject of an article in the “Proceedings of the Royal Society B” (The Royal…