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Rob’s Run: SU Junior Plans 54-Mile Jog to Help Make-A-Wish

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, By Keith Kobland

A Syracuse University junior is lacing up his running shoes for a 54-mile jog, in the name of his sister and an organization that grants wishes to sick children. Rob Faugno will depart before sunrise on April 11, which is…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, March 25

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, By Keith Kobland

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Getting to Know: Astrophysicist Jedidah Isler

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

Jedidah Isler was interested in the heavens from the time she was 11 or 12. She had a telescope as a kid, which her sister bought her for her birthday one year. But she didn’t get a chance to pursue…

STEM

SU Biologists Use Sound to Identify Breeding Grounds of Endangered Whales

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Remote acoustic monitoring among endangered whales is the subject of a major article by two doctoral students in The College of Arts and Sciences. Leanna Matthews and Jessica McCordic, members of the Parks Lab in the Department of Biology, have…

DPS Employees Inducted into Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By News Staff

Department of Public Safety commander Andrew Mrozienski and training coordinator Daniel Lebron have been inducted into the Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society. During a ceremony at Hendricks Chapel on March 21, Pat Burak, chapter…

STEM

Faculty Member a Judge for IBM’s Master the Mainframe Competition

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will be involved in an innovative IBM academic initiative, as one of its faculty members participates as a judge for the technology firm’s “Master the Mainframe World Championship” programming competition for young innovators. One…

Media, Law & Policy

Toner Prize Goes to Tumulty of Washington Post

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post is the winner of the 2013 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. The $5,000 Toner Prize honors the late Robin Toner, a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University with dual degrees in…

SU Campus and Community Invited to Play Accessible Athletics March 30

Monday, March 24, 2014, By News Staff

Members of the campus and Central New York communities are invited to participate in Syracuse University’s third annual Accessible Athletics Expo, “OrangeAbility.” This student-led initiative, sponsored by the OrangeAbility committee of the SU Disability Cultural Center (DCC) and the community…

Campus & Community

SU Pride on Display for National Orange Day

Monday, March 24, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Cake and ice cream, Orange-themed trinkets and a lot of Syracuse University pride. All of it is on display for National Orange Day, a celebration of SU’s 144th birthday. Happy 144th Syracuse University from Syracuse University News on Vimeo.

Veterans

Gump to Continue Leading Undergraduate Program for Trauma Research with Veterans

Monday, March 24, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Falk Family Professor of Public Health Brooks Gump will continue leading a program this summer for undergraduate veterans and non-veterans (five openings for each) interested in becoming trauma researchers. Gump was one of six faculty from three upstate New York…