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Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

Monday, October 6, 2014, By News Staff

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…

Media, Law & Policy

Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry Receives $177,060 from NSF

Friday, October 3, 2014, By News Staff

The Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, based in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School, is the host of the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (IQMR).  IQMR has been awarded $177,060 from the National Science…

Media, Law & Policy

Bretschneider Wins NASPAA Award

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By News Staff

Professor Stuart Bretschneider has been awarded the William Duncombe Excellence in Doctoral Education Award by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) for his outstanding contribution to doctoral student success, going above and beyond expected performance….

Campus & Community

National Cancer Institute Presentation

Wednesday, September 17, 2014, By News Staff

“Advancing Convergence and Innovation in Cancer Research: National Cancer Institute Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives” is the title of this presentation for the SU community and the public. URL: http://eng-cs.syr.edu/our-departments/biomedical-and-chemical-engineering/department-news/ Contact: Jesse Bond Biomedical and Chemical Engineering 315-443-2550 jqbond@syr.edu

University College Wins UPCEA Award for Excellence in Faculty/Staff Development

Friday, September 12, 2014, By Eileen Jevis

University College of Syracuse University won the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Region UPCEA Award for Excellence in Faculty/Staff Development for its submission of the Innovative Summer Program Development Fund. The Innovative Summer Program Development Fund was created in 2011 in an effort…

STEM

Biologist Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant

Friday, September 5, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

James Hewett, an associate professor of biology and neuroscientist, was recently awarded a $440,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hewett will use this…

Arts & Culture

M.F.A. Student Wins Academy’s ‘Most Promising Young Poet’ Award

Wednesday, September 3, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Wendy Chen, a University Fellow in Syracuse’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, is the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ inaugural Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award. Chen won the award for her poem “They…

Class of 2018 Joins the Syracuse University Family

Monday, August 25, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Stephen Barton ’12 came back to campus Friday to tell incoming students about their new family. “Today, you officially enter into this amazing, inspiring Orange family that stretches all across this city, the country and even the world.”

Campus & Community

Holding Tanks Installed for Carrier Dome Rainwater Project (Video)

Monday, August 4, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Huge holding tanks are installed outside the Carrier Dome, in preparation for a project that combines an age-old method for saving water, coupled with some new-age thinking.

Arts & Culture

Richard Gluckman Creates Lecture Fund in Honor of Former Dean Robbins

Monday, August 4, 2014, By News Staff

Richard Gluckman ’70, G’71 has created the Mark Robbins Lecture Fund in honor of Mark Robbins ’82, former dean of the School of Architecture. The fund will support an annual lecture in New York City by nationally and internationally known…