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Arts & Culture

New Biography ‘A Swoony Valentine’ to Joni Mitchell

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

A review in The Nation magazine calls David Yaffe’s new biography about the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell “a swoony valentine to Mitchell, or at least to the effect that her music can have on the spirit.” Yaffe is unapologetic about…

Arts & Culture

Shaped Clay Society to Host Holiday Mug Sale Nov. 29-Dec. 1

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Erica Blust

The Shaped Clay Society in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will host its annual holiday mug sale Nov. 29-Dec. 1 in the first-floor galleria of the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. Hours are Nov. 29 and 30, 10…

STEM

SU ADVANCE Generates Gains for Women in STEM

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Carol Boll

On Oct. 25, members of Syracuse University faculty, administrators, students and friends gathered to celebrate the progress achieved by a seven-year initiative to advance opportunity for women faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The National Science Foundation’s…

STEM

Physicist Seeks Big Answers from Tiny Particles

Monday, November 20, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

A large National Science Foundation (NSF) grant allows Mitchell Soderberg, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, to lead a team researching particle physics in the ongoing quest to explain how the universe works. Soderberg’s research involves measuring how…

BBC Earth

Biology Expert Details Whale Research

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Susan Parks, an Associate Professor in the Biology department of the College of Arts and Sciences, does unique research with some of the biggest animals on Earth, whales that roam beneath the ocean’s surface. She was featured in a BBC…

Business & Economy

Impact Prize Winners Announced

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A panel of area civic leaders this week announced the winners of the first Impact Prize competition at Syracuse University. Winners were selected for the most innovative and implementable ideas to help solve civic, environmental, economic or other public challenges,…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell X Lab Innovates Policymaking through Behavioral Science

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Kimberly Bliss

How can behavioral science help high school students increase their chances of going to college? How can an underutilized healthcare program for low-income people better target its communications so that people who need it know of its availability and use…

STEM

Professor Zhen Ma Receives 2017 Lush Prize for Young Researcher (Americas)

Thursday, November 16, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Zhen Ma, biomedical and chemical engineering professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was selected as the winner of the 2017 Lush Prize for Young Researcher (Americas). The Lush Prize, now in its sixth year, is a collaboration between cosmetics…

Health & Society

Black Feminist Trio to Headline Syracuse Symposium Keynote Event Nov. 27

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong look at “Belonging” with a keynote event featuring a trio of acclaimed Black feminist scholars. On Monday, Nov. 27, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Paula J. Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall will convene a dialogue titled “Black Feminists and…

Campus & Community

Recent Progress Noted on Diversity and Inclusion Recommendations

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Progress is being made on several fronts regarding recommendations made by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion (CWDI) to enhance the campus climate for all members of the University community. University leadership and the Universitywide Council on Diversity and…