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Syracuse University Press Participating in Path to Open Program
Syracuse University Press is participating in Path to Open, a groundbreaking collaboration between university presses, libraries and JSTOR, to promote sustainable open-access publishing of high-quality scholarly eBooks and increase meaningful engagement with them. Through the program, Syracuse University Press will…
Syracuse University Announces the Opening of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics
As Albert Einstein predicted in his theory of relativity more than one hundred years ago, gravitational waves have been rippling through the fabric of space-time since the dawn of the cosmos. Only in the past decade have scientists observed actual…
Roundtable: 3 School of Education Alumni Define ‘Human Thriving’ in the Context of Global Diversity
“Human thriving” is among the areas of distinctive excellence enumerated in the University’s 2023 Academic Strategic Plan. This concept is inspired by the words of Chancellor Erastus Haven. In 1871, he charged Syracuse students “to thrive here, to learn here,…
5 Faculty Presented NSF Early-Career Research Awards
Five faculty members have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Early Career Awards from the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program in support of their innovative research. The program supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as…
New Research Examines Echo Chambers and Political Attitudes on Social Media
What is the role of social media in shaping our political attitudes? New research published in Nature sets out to understand whether and how the information people see on social media shapes their political views. Entitled “Like-minded Sources on Facebook…
Maxwell’s Michael Williams Honored With NATO-Fulbright Security Studies Award
Michael Williams, associate professor of public administration and international affairs and director of the master of arts in international relations program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received a Fulbright-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Studies…
A Machine Learning Approach to Freshwater Analysis
From protecting biodiversity to ensuring the safety of drinking water, the biochemical makeup of rivers and streams around the United States is critical for human and environmental welfare. Studies have found that human activity and urbanization are driving salinization (increased…
School of Architecture Professor Awarded International Fellowships
Throughout the upcoming academic year, School of Architecture Associate Professor Lawrence Chua will embark on three international fellowships supporting the research and writing of his next single-authored scholarly monograph investigating the chronopolitics and temporal entanglements of modern architecture and the…
What’s Cooking? Culinary Creations With a Scientific Twist
By day, you can find Zunli Lu, Thonis Family Professor of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, teaching and researching about the co-evolution of life and the planet. By night, chances are you’ll find him in his kitchen…
Lori Brown, Christopher DeCorse Named Distinguished Professors
The Syracuse University Board of Trustees has approved two new Distinguished Professors. Lori Brown, professor in the School of Architecture, and Christopher DeCorse, professor and chair of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, have been recognized…