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STEM

Professor Rahman Awarded Google Grant to Engage Underrepresented Students in Computing Research

Saturday, January 23, 2021, By Alex Dunbar

Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Professor Farzana Rahman received a 2020 Google exploreCSR award to fund the development of an undergraduate student engagement workshop program, Research Exposure in Socially Relevant Computing (RESORC). The RESORC program will provide research opportunities…

Arts & Culture

Special Collections Research Center Launches Latin American 45s Digital Collection

Saturday, January 23, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), working in partnership with the Digital Library Program (DLP), recently launched the Belfer Latin American 45s Digital Collection. The digital collection will eventually provide access to over 12,000 recordings that date from…

Arts & Culture

VPA Faculty to Present World Premieres at Society for New Music Concert Jan. 31

Saturday, January 23, 2021, By News Staff

Performers affiliated with the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) are teaming up with the Society for New Music (SNM) for world premieres by two up-and-coming composers. Cellist Gregory Wood and percussionist Rob…

Media, Law & Policy

‘Democracy on Trial: Can We Save It?’

Friday, January 22, 2021, By Lily Datz

James Roger Sharp, professor emeritus of history in the Maxwell School, wrote an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “Democracy on trial: Can we save it?” Sharp is an expert in American political history, having researched and written extensively about the history…

Media, Law & Policy

Future of News Production the Focus of NSF Planning Grant

Thursday, January 21, 2021, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Two researchers from Syracuse University are part of a team that received a $130,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier. The project, “Planning to study automation and the future of news…

Media, Law & Policy

‘Confronting ‘Who We Are”

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, By Lily Datz

Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an op-ed for History News Network titled “Confronting ‘Who We Are.’” Erlenbusch-Anderson specializes in political philosophy and often teaches courses on the philosophy of law. After…

STEM

Arts and Sciences Welcomes New Director of Forensics Kathleen Corrado

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

After 25 years working in the field of forensic science and over two decades of executive experience as a laboratory director, Kathleen Corrado has been named director of the Forensic and National Security Science Institute (FNSSI) in the College of…

Arts & Culture

Sound Beat: Access Audio Offering Children’s Audiobooks about Enslaved People by Cheryl Wills ’89

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Sound Beat: Access Audio is providing two free family audiobooks written by Emmy Award-winning journalist Cheryl Wills ’89,  the great-great-great granddaughter of Emma and Sandy Wills, enslaved people from Haywood, Tennessee. The audiobooks are narrated by the author and are…

Veterans

IVMF Advisory Board Welcomes New Additions

Monday, January 18, 2021, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has announced two new members to its advisory board with the appointments of Mark Elliott, global head of military and veterans affairs for JPMorgan Chase—IVMF’s founding partner—and Ken Fisher, co-managing partner of…

STEM

Hehnly Lab Awarded $1.2M NIH Grant to Research Critical Tissue Formation

Sunday, January 17, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

A key process during the development of an embryo is tissue morphogenesis, where the number of cells in an organism increase through cell division and tissues begins to take shape. Heidi Hehnly, assistant professor of biology, has been awarded a…