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STEM

Math Department Sees Significant Grant Support for 2022-23

Monday, November 28, 2022, By News Staff

Joining Minghao Rostami’s prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant, which started this August and runs for five years, three other professors in the Department of Mathematics—Jani Onninen, Dan Coman and Lixin Shen—were awarded NSF grants for their ongoing work, and two…

Campus & Community

Helping Ranchers Learn From the Wild

Monday, November 28, 2022, By News Staff

Tropical forests garner headlines as greenhouse gas storehouses. But wild grasslands are crucial, lesser-known candidates as climate heroes. Wild grasslands—from the African savanna to the North American prairie—have the potential to soak up vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the…

STEM

A&S Biology Professor Helping to Shape National Science Foundation Funding

Monday, November 28, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

Across laboratories in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), the cutting-edge research taking place is made possible with support from federally funded grants. In the last year alone, A&S researchers have received nearly $24 million in support from institutions…

STEM

Researcher Awarded NSF Future Manufacturing Seed Grant for Scale-Up Manufacturing of Therapeutic Cell Products

Thursday, November 17, 2022, By Diane Stirling

More new therapeutic treatments for various diseases could be moved into clinical trials—and potentially faster into mainstream medical use—if scientists could find ways to manufacture exponentially higher quantities of the stem cell components needed for medical testing. Spearheading work to…

Campus & Community

Women in Leadership Initiative Hosts Book Talk With Daphne E. Jones on Friday, Dec. 2

Tuesday, November 15, 2022, By News Staff

Continuing its mission to promote women leaders, the Women in Leadership Initiative (WiL), in partnership with the Whitman School of Management and School of Information Studies, is pleased to invite staff and faculty members to a book talk and reception…

Health & Society

Food Studies Graduate Students Getting Their Hands Dirty at a ‘Living Agroecological Lab’

Tuesday, November 15, 2022, By Matt Michael

On a cool but sunny early October morning on Syracuse University’s South Campus, eight graduate students from the Food Studies program in the Falk College sat in a circle at Pete’s Giving Garden and talked dirt. No, not gossip about…

Arts & Culture

Students Experience Indian Art, Architecture Through Annual Diwali Festival on Campus

Monday, November 14, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

In 2015, College of Arts and Sciences art history Professor Romita Ray organized the University’s first public Diwali celebration on campus. Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a Hindu festival held each October or November in India where…

Campus & Community

Using Monsoons of the Past to Predict Climate Conditions of the Future

Monday, November 14, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

The North American southwest has been suffering through weather extremes in recent years ranging from searing heatwaves and scorching wildfires to monsoon rainfalls that cause flash floods and mudslides. As temperatures around the world continue to rise because of global…

Campus & Community

Announcing New Acquisitions at the Special Collections Research Center

Monday, November 14, 2022, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) announces the following recent and notable acquisitions to its collections. SCRC is a vibrant research and learning environment for students, staff, faculty and the local and global communities. When adding new collection…

Media, Law & Policy

DC Attorney Credits Her Maxwell Mentor for Successful Career in International Human Rights

Sunday, November 13, 2022, By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

In 2011, when Zuleika Rivera came to Syracuse from Puerto Rico for her undergraduate studies, she planned to pursue political science as a step toward the law career and social justice work she’d long envisioned, and she also hoped to…