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Arts & Culture

George Saunders Wins Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

Saunders’ win was announced by Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, at a dinner Tuesday evening at London’s Guildhall. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall presented a trophy to Saunders.

Vox

Physics Professors Brown and Saulson Make Breakthrough in Neutron Star Discovery

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

College of Arts and Sciences faculty members, Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics,  commented on the recent neutron star collision that is helping researchers discover the origins of precious…

Campus & Community

Snapshot of Family Weekend 2017

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Family and friends gathered over the weekend at Syracuse University for Family Weekend 2017. Over 1,800 families, totaling over 5,100 people, registered to attend, making it one of the largest Family Weekend celebrations in recent years. Families traveled from across…

Campus & Community

Today Is the Day to Boost the ’Cuse!

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By John Boccacino

Boost the ’Cuse, Syracuse University’s first-ever 24-hour giving day, takes place all day today. Alumni and friends of SU around the world are encouraged to make a gift to support the part of SU they love most.

Arts & Culture

Hiroshima Survivor to Share Her Experience during University Events

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

School of Architecture Associate Professor Yutaka Sho first met Keiko Ogura in the summer of 2016 in Japan during the SU Abroad travel seminar Design Through a Tourist’s Eye. The seminar focused in part on the way communities remember and…

STEM

Syracuse Architecture, iSchool Faculty Receive NSF Grant for Joint Research on Smart Energy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Elaine Wackerow

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) grant of $99,965 to three Syracuse University faculty/Center of Excellence fellows: iSchool professor Jason Dedrick, principal investigator, and Syracuse Architecture assistant professors Elizabeth Krietemeyer and Tarek Rakha, co-investigators. They…

Washington Examiner

Much is at Stake as Trump Travels to Asia

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

President Trump has a lot on the line as a scheduled trip to Asia draws closer, and tensions with North Korea increase. The week-long trip across the globe could result in many ways, and as Grant Reeher, professor of political…

STEM

Syracuse Physicists Usher in a New Golden Age of Astronomy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University physicists are among a global team of scientists to make a revolutionary discovery confirming the origins of gold and other heavy metals whose presence in the universe has been a long-standing mystery.

Health & Society

Bridges to Food Quality

Thursday, October 12, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

As a young man, Minhao Chen G’12 began to notice that something wasn’t right. One by one, family friends in Shanghai were being diagnosed with cancer. By the time he had completed his undergraduate degree in China, five people he knew had…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Hosts World Englishes Conference

Thursday, October 12, 2017, By Rob Enslin

It is a little-known fact that Braj Kachru, a renowned authority on the English language, spoke only Hindi and his mother tongue, Kashmiri, until he was 16. Nevertheless, his upbringing in a Kashmiri Pundit family, which valued education above almost…