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The Science of Shipwrecks
On New Year’s Eve in 1862, the USS Monitor sank in a violent storm at Cape Hatteras, off North Carolina’s windswept coast. Sixteen of her 62 sailors perished. One survivor, a surgeon named Grenville Weeks, lost three fingers and the…
Physicist to be Recognized by National Academy of Sciences
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is being recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his “outstanding leadership” of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration. Peter R. Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…
Awful Day Lives in Alumnus’ Memory
Andrew Cisternino happened to be on watch that morning, in the tower of the Coast Guard station in Oswego. Typically, he would have joined the crew on the picket boat that was being sent to the lighthouse in the Oswego harbor. But nothing was typical about Dec. 4, 1942.
Thousands of Area Students to Attend First School Day at Carrier Dome Wednesday
Thousands of local elementary and middle school students are in for quite a field trip Wednesday, Dec. 7, as they take part in a day filled with education and entertainment. The School Day event is a first for the Syracuse…
Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series Continues Wednesday
The University’s Fall 2016 Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the “Hidden” Things that Divide Us, will continue on Wednesday, Nov. 16. The dialogue, on “Beyond Inclusion and Accessibility,” will be held from 6:30-8:30…
ROTC Cadet Reflects, Looks Forward
Adam Westervelt couldn’t believe how fortunate he was. In fact, as he looked around a classroom full of students, he couldn’t even fathom that he was in the African nation of Senegal. Westervelt, as a member of the Reserve Officer…
Director of Tully Center Calls ‘Ballot Selfie’ a Test of Competing First Amendment Issues
Courts around the country are deciding an issue involving a timeless expression of democracy and a newer form expression of self-absorption: the so called “selfie” photograph taken inside a polling place. It’s a fairly new phenonenon, and getting plenty of…
Heart of a Lion
When Marilyn Kerr arrived at Syracuse in 1970, science was a male-dominated profession. The idea of a woman donning a white lab coat and waxing rhapsodic about biology or chemistry seemed, in those days, about as likely as someone synthesizing…
Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series Continues Wednesday
The University’s Fall 2016 Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the “Hidden” Things that Divide Us, will continue on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The dialogue, on Islamophobia on Campus, will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m….