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Inauguration Day Press Kit: Biography of Chancellor Kent Syverud
Kent Syverud is Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. Appointed by the University’s Board of Trustees in September 2013, he assumed the leadership post in January 2014, becoming the 12th leader of the University since its founding in 1870. Chancellor…
Falk Students, Faculty Advocate for Women’s Right to Adequate Nutrition at UN Meetings
Students in the Falk College’s new graduate course, FST 700, “Gender, Food and Rights,” attended the United Nations’ annual Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings during spring break. Led by food studies Professor Anne Bellows, three students—Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo,…
‘Changing Sports, Changing Lives’ Documentary World Premiere April 28
Students enrolled in SPM 300, “The History of Sport,” have spent the 2013-14 academic year focusing their research efforts on sports that have been adapted to transform and enrich the lives of athletes with physical disabilities. In the fall semester,…
Deep Findings
When Cathryn Newton helped discover the USS Monitor in 1973, she was dealing with not just the most famous shipwreck of the Civil War (and of all U.S. naval history), but a paleontological and archaeological find of “epoch” proportions. “Shipwrecks…
Student Barter Day Along Connective Corridor
If you need it, someone has it. If you have it, someone needs it. This is the inspiration behind the first Student Barter Day on the Connective Corridor, which will take place Saturday, April 5, from 3:30-6:30 p.m. The day…
Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes
Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…
Participants Needed for Research Project on Health Behaviors Among African-American College Students
We invite you for participation in the research project “Health Behaviors among African American College Students.” This study was designed to better understand determinants of health behaviors in college students of African descent. College students of African descent have not…
Getting to Know: Assistant Professor Barbara Stripling, President of the ALA
The idea that access to libraries–and to the information, materials and guidance available therein is a right community members should be guaranteed–is a platform that has taken Barbara Stripling to all corners of the United States and around the world….
IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership
A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…
Goode’s Book on Modern Historical Thought Reissued in Paperback
Syracuse University Associate Professor of English Mike Goode challenges the conventional accounts of the development of modern historical thought in his book “Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890” (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was reissued as a paperback…