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“The nation has lost a great jurist”

Saturday, February 13, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Legal scholars at Syracuse University offer insight on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. All faculty members are available to comment further. Please contact Robert L. Conrad, Director of Communications at Syracuse University College of Law at 315-443-9536…

Campus & Community

Message to Campus Community Regarding Death of a Student

Saturday, February 13, 2016, By News Staff

The following message was sent to our campus community Saturday.

Campus & Community

Author-Scholar to Explore Wisdom of Private Sector Models in Higher Education

Friday, February 12, 2016, By Carol Boll

Christopher Newfield, professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk titled “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Damage Universities, and How They Can Recover” on Friday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m….

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College of Visual and Performing Arts

Friday, February 12, 2016, By News Staff

The following students enrolled in the College of Visual and Performing Arts were among those named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2015 semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must complete a minimum of 12 credit hours…

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…

Campus & Community

Abolition and the Origins of Sharecropping

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By News Staff

Guest speaker is Melanie Dupuis from the Pace University Department of Environmental Studies and Science will speak on Friday, Feb. 12 at 3 p.m. This free lecture, to be held in Eggers Hall, Room 018,  is a joint event with…

“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…

STEM

Entrepreneurial Engineering Students Improve Ambiance on Huckster Hill

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

What if engineering students from different majors had an opportunity to develop a solution for an actual company in a single semester? That is exactly what students in Professor of Practice Mark Povinelli’s “Introduction to Entrepreneurial Engineering” did last fall….

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Call for Poets for Cruel April Poetry Book Fair 2016

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By News Staff

The Point of Contact Gallery is seeking published poets to display and sell their poetry collections at its annual poetry book fair. Poets’ works will be available for purchase throughout the month of April for Point of Contact’s series Cruel…