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Participate in a Hearing Research Study
The Hearing Lab at Syracuse University is looking for participants 45 – 69 years of age who are having trouble hearing and think they may have some hearing loss. You will be paid $10 per hour. The study will take…
Disability Rights Expert Earns Fulbright Research Award
Associate Professor of Law Michael Schwartz has received a Fulbright Award for study at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland for the spring 2015 semester. Schwartz, who is deaf, is an expert on disability law and international human rights, and…
Sean O’Keefe to Speak at Maxwell School’s MPA Convocation
Former administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Sean O’Keefe G’78 (M.P.A.) will address graduates and their families and friends at the Maxwell School’s M.P.A. Convocation on June 27. O’Keefe, who serves as chairman of the Maxwell School advisory…
iSchool Hosts Workshop for NSF-Funded Social Computing Researchers
Faculty members at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently hosted a one-day workshop for New York researchers doing National Science Foundation-funded work in the area of social-computational systems. Research Associate Professor Nancy McCracken and Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund organized…
Chemist Earns Humboldt Research Fellowship
A chemist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, known for promoting academic collaboration among scientists and scholars from Germany and around the world. Ivan V. Korendovych, assistant…
University Lectures Announces 2014-15 Season
Seven distinguished guests will share their experiences and perspectives with the Syracuse University and Central New York communities this fall and next spring as part of the 2014-15 University Lectures series. Guests during the fall 2014 semester include Van Jones,…
Tony Award-Winning Rock Musical ‘Spring Awakening’ Closes SU Drama Season
Winner of eight Tony Awards, “Spring Awakening” is a hard-hitting rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s expressionist play. Set in late-19th-century Germany, the story follows Wendla Bergmann, Moritz Stiefel, Melchior Gabor and their peers as they struggle to understand the…
Grad Student Aims to Find Research Answers on Alcohol for African Americans
It turns out that blacks don’t use alcohol that much compared to other groups. Previous research shows that they start drinking later, and then don’t drink as much as whites, for example.
Biologist Awarded Prestigious Research Grant
To say the competition for the 2014 International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants was fierce would be a massive understatement. In fact, when the process began more than a year ago, 844 letters of intent were submitted…
SU Plays Key Role in Search for Elusive Dark Matter
The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from The College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of…