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Campus & Community

South Side Communication Center Youth Program Encourages Anything Is Possible

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Every day the young people who attend the South Side Communication Center Youth Program have something different to look forward to. That includes speakers, art class, board games, sewing or just hanging out and engaging in good conversation. During the…

Arts & Culture

Selections from ‘The A-Bomb and Humanity’ to Be Exhibited Aug. 10-19

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, By Erica Blust

“Present Tense,” selections from “The A-Bomb and Humanity,” a set of 40 panels that depict photographs and drawings of the human suffering created when Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were destroyed by atomic bombs, will be on view Aug. 10-19 at…

Arts & Culture

Book Memorializes Symposium in Tribute to Late, Great African Writer Chinua Achebe

Monday, August 7, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

In 2014, the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences held a daylong conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel “Arrow of God.” The symposium featured some of the…

Media, Law & Policy

Selfies Are Everywhere—But Why?

Thursday, August 3, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Selfies: the self-portraits of the digital age. These photos posted on social media serve as a way to document a new haircut, a vacation or a night out on the town. But researchers from the Newhouse School have taken a…

New York Times

Rick Burton: L.A. is a Winner Again With Recent Olympics Announcement

Thursday, August 3, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Rick Burton, David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management, was quoted in a New York Times story “Los Angeles Makes Deal to Host the 2028 Summer Olympics.”

Campus & Community

Students Awarded Top Prizes for Honors Capstone Projects

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

For students in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, the honors capstone project can be a challenge to complete. The project typically requires intensive research, writing, professional or creative work over the course of already busy junior and senior years….

Arts & Culture

Talent Agency Grooms Artistic Teens for Success

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

David Gebremichael is one of a group of teens who, surprisingly during the summer, get themselves out of bed early and down to the Nancy Cantor Warehouse on West Fayette Street in Syracuse by 9 a.m. four days a week….

Health & Society

Dessa Bergen-Cico: We are all ‘Same Same, but Different’

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

Since June 12, Dessa Bergen-Cico, associate professor of public health in Falk College, has been participating in a three-month Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The program covers such areas as peace, conflict prevention and resolution. For…

STEM

High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn’t just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school—she was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll’s environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…

STEM

Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Rob Enslin

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”