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“We have just taken our first look at the Universe in a completely new way”

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse, NY… Scientists in the Department of Physics at Syracuse University have been instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves, confirming a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity. They include Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…

STEM

Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Rob Enslin

LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes

Campus & Community

UVP Features ‘Between Species’

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Anneka Herre

Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization Light Work, in collaboration with the Everson Museum of Art, are hosting the group show “Between Species” Feb. 11-March 26. The exhibition will take place at UVP’s outdoor architectural projection venue at the…

Campus & Community

Students, Faculty, Staff Invited to Participate in Climate Assessment Survey

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

The Syracuse University Climate Assessment Survey is now under way and continues through March 11. All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to take the survey in its convenient online format or in a paper-and-pencil version available at the information…

Campus & Community

Nominees Sought for Judith Seinfeld Distinguished Fellows Faculty Award

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By News Staff

The Office of the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs has issued a call to academic deans and department heads to submit faculty nominations for the Judith Seinfeld Distinguished Fellows Award. The award, which carries a $10,000 restriction-free grant for honorees,…

Campus & Community

University Celebrates Black History Month 2016

Tuesday, February 9, 2016, By Gerard McTigue

Throughout the month of February, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), in collaboration with many University partners, will host a number of events in honor of Black History Month. “Each year we are so proud to see the involvement of…

Arts & Culture

CFAC Presents ‘As Bad as I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood’

Tuesday, February 9, 2016, By News Staff

Community Folk Art Center opens the spring 2016 exhibition season with “As Bad as I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood,” featuring the works of artists Delita Martin, Kenyatta Hinkle and Nina Buxenbaum. These emerging mixed media artists interrogate femininity, gender…

Health & Society

Marriage and Family Therapy Program Reaccredited

Tuesday, February 9, 2016, By Michele Barrett

The Ph.D. program in Falk College’s Department of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) was recently awarded reaccreditation by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s (AAMFT) Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). The COAMFTE is…

Campus & Community

Baptist Campus Ministry Team Finds Hope, Joy in Work with Earthquake Survivors

Monday, February 8, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

In the terraced landscape of Nepal, a team from the Baptist Campus Ministry worked alongside residents disassembling crumbled homes and marking plots of homes that will be rebuilt following last year’s crippling earthquake.

Arts & Culture

Feminist Scholar Awarded Guest Professorship in Germany

Monday, February 8, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has returned from a prestigious appointment at Goethe University (GU) in Frankfurt, Germany. Chandra Talpade Mohanty—Distinguished Professor and chair of women’s & gender studies (WGS), as well as Dean’s Professor of…