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Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Study Collective Behavior of Active Matter
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,…
Burdick Leads Study on Social Housing Projects in Brazil
The National Science Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom have awarded $597,000 to a project led by Professor John Burdick (anthropology) to observe differently organized social housing projects in downtown Rio de Janeiro, to…
Call for Poetry for Syracuse Poster Project
The Syracuse Poster Project invites Central New York writers to submit haiku poems for the 2017 poster series, the 16th annual series. Each year the project brings together artists from Syracuse University and poets from the community to create a…
Olympic Reflections from Gold and Bronze Medalist Herman Frazier
Syracuse University’s Senior Deputy Director of Athletics Herman Frazier is a man who has lived the Olympic dream. A gold and bronze medalist, Frazier has played a key role in many of the Olympic Games since 1976. Frazier talks about…
Liddy Elected Vice Chair of Deans for Computing Research Association
Elizabeth D. Liddy, dean of the School of Information Studies (iSchool) was elected to the position of vice chair of the deans group for the Computing Research Association (CRA), an organization of more than 200 North American institutions active in computing…
Exhibition in Shenzhen, China, Features Syracuse Architecture Research
The Syracuse Architecture exhibit, “From Guest to Host: Hakka Villages and the Pingdi Low Carbon City,” focuses on ways in which current efforts to transform Pingdi—a subdistrict in northeastern Shenzhen—into a “Low Carbon City” pilot zone builds on the knowledge and daily practices of traditional Hakka families.
Newhouse Students Focus on Millennial Perspective at Party Conventions
Recent Newhouse graduates are capturing the politics, personalities and controversies at the Republican and Democratic conventions through a partnership with the Newhouse School and Skype in Media.
LIS Student Selected for ALA Spectrum Scholarship
Maria Provini, a graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has been named a recipient of the 2016-17 American Library Association’s Spectrum Scholarship. Provini is one of 61 recipients of the competitive…
From Syrian Immigrant to Syracuse Grad: Hani Sulieman ’16, Electrical Engineering
As the revolution took hold in Syria, Hani Sulieman parted ways with his family and began a dangerous drive to the airport, not knowing if he would ever see them again. The roads he traveled were haunted by snipers and bore…
Connecting Women in Geotechnical Engineering
Professor Shobha K. Bhatia and Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $258,870 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to better connect women faculty in geotechnical engineering. The project, a national collaborative…