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Campus & Community

Call for South Asia Center FLAS Academic Year 2016-17 Applications

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, By News Staff

Application Process Reopened Syracuse University’s South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Application Deadlines: Graduate Students: Monday, August 15, 2016 by 11:59 pm EST Undergraduate Students: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by 11:59 pm EST The…

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Sayler/Morris Receive Brower Center Art/Act Award, NYFA Fellowship

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, By Erica Blust

Artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris), faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia and co-directors of the Canary Lab, a hub for research-based, interdisciplinary art and media focused on ecology, have received…

STEM

Physicists Awarded NSF Grant to Study Cancer-Cell Behavior

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Rob Enslin

M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti and Jennifer Schwarz have been awarded a three-year, $686,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply principles of soft-matter physics to cancer therapy.

Health & Society

New Book by David B. Falk Professor Rick Burton Out This Week

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Scott McDowell

Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management, will release his newest book, “Sports Business Unplugged: Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports” (from Syracuse University Press) at a most auspicious time. The book, due in stores this…

Campus & Community

Four Distinguished Alumni to Be Honored at 2016 Arents Ceremony

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By News Staff

The recipients are Jim Brown ’57, James Cunningham ’74, Dr. Robert Jarvik ’68, H’83 and Arielle Tepper Madover ’94.

STEM

Researchers Confirm Marine Animals Live Longer at High Latitudes

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that high-latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics. Their findings are the subject of an article in the “Proceedings of the Royal Society B” (The Royal…

Arts & Culture

How Sunglasses Became Cool for the Summer

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Sunglasses—the ultimate accessory in cool—became a necessity in the early 20th century with the advent of cars and more time to spend outside. They evolved into a statement of style.

Campus & Community

Newhouse Students Interning at Summer Olympic Games

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

When the 2016 Summer Olympic Games kick off Friday in Rio de Janeiro, 23 students from the Newhouse School will be part of the team that brings coverage of the event to the world community. They are among 258 student…

Media, Law & Policy

The Olympics and Brand Management

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

As the 2016 Summer Olympics quickly approaches, media have reported that the United States Olympic Committee has informed businesses that are not official sponsors of the games, that they cannot reference any Olympic results, share or re-tweet anything from the…

Media, Law & Policy

Lerner Center Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, By Jessica Smith

As it marks its fifth anniversary, the Maxwell School’s Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion  is taking stock of its growth and accomplishments—an impressive list that includes collaboration and needs assessment in the local community, specific outreach and information projects…