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Arts & Culture

Urban Video Project, Light Work Announce Urban Cinematheque 2016

Monday, August 29, 2016, By Anneka Herre

Urban Video Project (UVP) and Light Work will present Urban Cinematheque 2016 on Friday, Sept. 2, from 7-11 p.m. at the Everson Plaza. It will be the fifth installment of this wildly successful end-of-summer event pairing a free outdoor film…

Campus & Community

Researchers Recruiting Middle-Aged Adults for Study on How Exercise Affects Brain, Blood Vessels

Monday, August 29, 2016, By News Staff

The Human Performance Laboratory within the Department of Exercise Science is currently seeking volunteers for a research project investigating how exercise affects the brain and blood vessels of middle-aged adults. Who can volunteer? We are looking for adults 45-64 years…

Campus & Community

Professor Bybee Named Syracuse University’s ACC Distinguished Lecturer for 2016-17

Monday, August 29, 2016, By Robert Conrad

Keith J. Bybee, the Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor, professor of political science and director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media, has been designated Syracuse University’s Atlantic…

Campus & Community

University to Protect and Extend Current Benefit Status to Employees Affected by New Federal Labor Standards Act

Monday, August 22, 2016, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

In May, the U.S. Department of Labor released new regulations that employers, including academic institutions like Syracuse University, must adopt to comply with the updated Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The intent of the revised federal law is to provide greater clarity for…

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Warren Named New York Choral Director of the Year

Thursday, August 18, 2016, By Erica Blust

The New York chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (NYACDA) has named John Warren, associate professor and director of choral activities in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music,…

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,…

Media, Law & Policy

Burdick Leads Study on Social Housing Projects in Brazil

Tuesday, August 16, 2016, By News Staff

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…

Arts & Culture

Call for Poetry for Syracuse Poster Project

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, By News Staff

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…

Campus & Community

Olympic Reflections from Gold and Bronze Medalist Herman Frazier

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Keith Kobland

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…

STEM

Liddy Elected Vice Chair of Deans for Computing Research Association

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, By J.D. Ross

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…