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Campus & Community

Remembrance Week Begins Sunday with Candlelight Vigil

Friday, October 20, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Arts & Culture

Backstage Names VPA’s Musical Theater Program One of 10 ‘You Should Know’

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Erica Blust

Backstage has listed the musical theater program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama as one of “Ten Musical Theater College Programs You Should Know.” According to Backstage, the list, which does not numerically rank the…

STEM

Yale Physicist to Deliver 10th Annual Wali Lecture Oct. 26

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) will celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of its premier lecture series with a program by a renowned theoretical astrophysicist. Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, will deliver this…

Health & Society

Power and Responsibility—Ethics In Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert Professor Dana Radcliffe says it is also a fitting principle…

STEM

Air Orange Team Competing to Reinvent How We Transmit Wireless Data

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Countless devices are connected through wireless media  and all of those phones, sensors and smart home networks are putting increasing pressure on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Right now, the spectrum is divided into exclusively licensed bands, thus creating enormous…

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel Dean’s Convocation Brings Campus Together in Spirit and Song on Sunday Evenings

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Every Sunday evening at 7 p.m., Hendricks Chapel comes alive. Members of the Syracuse University community come together for the Dean’s Convocation, a spirited gathering featuring music and reflection. The idea of a weekly convocation emerged from the Syracuse campus…

Business & Economy

Sport Management Professor Receives Grants to Study 2018 Winter Olympics Youth Viewership

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

With final preparations underway for the 2018 Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin Feb. 9  in PyeongChang, South Korea, Falk College Assistant Professor of Sport Management Jamie Jeeyoon Kim is researching the negotiation of motivation and constraints in young people’s decision making…

STEM

Falk Professor Receives Grant to Investigate Anaerobic Digestion

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

Despite a significant number of animals on smaller dairy farms in New York State and the northeastern United States, the vast majority of research on the benefits of anaerobic digester (AD) technologies only relates to larger livestock farms. That is…

Health & Society

Join the Be Wise Peer Educator Team

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Joyce LaLonde

The Be Wise peer education team within the Office of Health Promotion in the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience is recruiting new peer educators for the 2017-2018 academic year. As peer educators, students work with the Office of…

PBS NewsHour

Neutron Collision Discovery a “Textbook Changer” says PBS NewsHour

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently spoke with PBS NewsHour about the  discoveries that came from the detection of two neutron stars colliding. The event gave researchers new information regarding…