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Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Closes Out Month with High-Profile Events

Thursday, February 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, wraps up February with a quartet of high-profile events. It features visits by Jonathan Dueck, an award-winning ethnomusicologist at George Washington University (GW); Alicia Garza, founder of the Black…

Campus & Community

Middle Eastern Studies Program CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Wednesday, February 17, 2016, By News Staff

Attention Syracuse University Graduate Students MESP Graduate Student Summer Research Grants This year the Middle Eastern Studies Program (MESP) will grant up to 3 awards (in the range of $1,000 each) to Ph.D. and M.A. candidates from any discipline to…

Arts & Culture

A Rembrandt ‘Selfie’ among Dutch Master Works at SU Art Gallery

Tuesday, February 16, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Irene Garcia G’17 got a few extra lessons from last semester’s art history seminar, “Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing.” In addition to classroom lectures and writing assignments, she worked with Wayne Franits, professor of art history, curating “Dutch Master…

Campus & Community

Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship Nominations Sought

Tuesday, February 16, 2016, By News Staff

Nominations are currently being sought for the 2015-16 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship. Every year, Syracuse University recognizes students, faculty, staff and organizations that have a profound impact on the University and the surrounding community through engagement and…

STEM

University Hosts Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

Friday, February 12, 2016, By Rob Enslin

More than 100 undergraduate women in physics—some from as far away as the University of Maine and Rutgers University—recently converged on campus to discuss their changing role in the field. In January, Syracuse University was one of nine institutions to…

STEM

Gravitational Waves Discovery, New Carnegie Classification Underscore Research Excellence at Syracuse

Friday, February 12, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

From all over campus to all around the world, a momentous discovery in the world of physics was made known Thursday.

“We have just taken our first look at the Universe in a completely new way”

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse, NY… Scientists in the Department of Physics at Syracuse University have been instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves, confirming a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity. They include Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…

Media, Law & Policy

IJPM Speaker Series to Start Feb. 17

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Robert Conrad

The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics & the Media (IJPM) will kick off its eighth annual Law, Politics & the Media Speaker Series on Feb. 17. The speaker series, co-sponsored by IJPM and the Tully Center for…

STEM

Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Rob Enslin

LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes