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Campus & Community

Schine Renovation ‘Profound Honor and Responsibility’ for Architect John Burse ’94

Monday, October 18, 2021, By Jen Plummer

John Burse ’94 first stepped foot on the Syracuse University campus as a high school senior in the late 1980s with dreams of becoming an architect. He recalls stepping onto the Quad for the first time and knowing in that…

STEM

Professor Shikha Nangia Selected as Rising Star by American Chemical Society

Monday, October 11, 2021, By Alex Dunbar

Biomedical and chemical engineering Professor Shikha Nangia has been selected as a recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemist Committee  2022 Rising Star Award. The award recognizes nine women scientists who have demonstrated excellence in the scientific enterprise and…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Opens 2021/2022 Season for Live Performance With ‘Eureka Day’

Monday, October 11, 2021, By News Staff

Syracuse Stage is back. With the opening of Jonathan Spector’s timely play, “Eureka Day,” Syracuse Stage marks a joyous return to live performance. The first of six shows in the 2021/2022 season, “Eureka Day” runs Oct. 13 -31. Tickets on…

Media Tip Sheets

How to stop misinformation on social media

Tuesday, October 5, 2021, By Lily Datz

Syracuse University Professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley has been studying social media before it was called social media. Five years ago, she laid out a simple three-point plan to help stem the tide of misinformation on Facebook. Today, those three recommendations remain…

STEM

Biology Major Gains Hands-On Experience With Endangered Animals in Costa Rica

Tuesday, October 5, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

From an early age, Leonardo Rivera ’22 had a fondness for animals and wildlife conservation. Growing up in tropical Puerto Rico, the biology major on a pre-veterinary track remembers investigating the habits of hermit crabs in the sand, watching as…

STEM

Arts and Sciences Physicist Part of a 5-University Team Programming Biological Cells to Design Futuristic Materials

Tuesday, October 5, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

Jennifer Ross, professor and department chair of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is among a team of researchers that was recently awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and create…

Campus & Community

Summer Internships Help Humanities Scholars Explore Career Options

Monday, October 4, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

In June, the Graduate School launched a Humanities Summer Internship program, supporting two humanities Ph.D. students through paid internship opportunities at Syracuse University Press and the Syracuse University Art Museum. An outgrowth of the National Endowment for the Humanities Next-Generation…

Campus & Community

Undergraduate Research Grants Open New Opportunities for Students

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, By News Staff

Ashanti Hunter and Michelle Ho, inclusive early childhood and special education seniors in the School of Education, are engaged in research with Professor George Theoharis on the pipeline to educational leadership positions for women of color for building and school…

Media, Law & Policy

In Memoriam: Joseph Strasser, ‘Forever an Important Figure in Our History’

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, By Jessica Youngman

Joseph Strasser ’53, G’58, H’20 was just 8 years old in 1940 when he and his brother escaped Nazi persecution on a Kindertransport rescue boat. Two years earlier, the Third Reich had annexed their home country, Austria. Their father, Paul,…

Arts & Culture

Arts and Sciences Professor Instrumental in the Rediscovery of Lost Painting

Monday, September 27, 2021, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse University Distinguished Professor of Art History Wayne Franits was one of the first people in more than three centuries to see a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Hendrick ter Brugghen that was presumed to have been lost to the…