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Microfossils Reveal Warm Oceans Had Less Oxygen, Syracuse Geologists Say

Wednesday, October 15, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences are pairing chemical analyses with micropaleontology—the study of tiny fossilized organisms—to better understand how global marine life was affected by a rapid warming event more than 55 million years ago.

Dance Classes Offered for People with Parkinson’s

Wednesday, October 15, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Neuroscientists Donna Korol and Tumay Tunur in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences are partnering with the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute, the Dance Theater of Syracuse and Cynthia Stevenson, director of caregiver services at…

Women’s and Gender Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs to Host Prominent Chicana Scholar

Monday, October 6, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Laura Elisa Pérez, associate professor of ethnic studies, author, and the only Chicana scholar tenured in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a lecture titled, “Undocumented Flower Crossings, Walking Altars, and Latina/o…

STEM

Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

Monday, October 6, 2014, By News Staff

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…

Health & Society

Psychologist Awarded $400,000 Grant to Study Health Behaviors among African American High School Students

Wednesday, October 1, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Aesoon Park, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a three-year, $400,000 grant award from the National Institute of Health. A clinical psychologist and member of Syracuse’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, she will…

Arts & Culture

Religion Professors Publish New Books

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The Department of Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating new books by two of its professors. Gustav Niebuhr is the author of “Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors”…

Syracuse Hosts U.S. Hispanic Literary Recovery Conference Oct. 9-11

Thursday, September 25, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University is observing National Hispanic American Heritage Month with a major conference on U.S. Hispanic literary culture.

African American Studies to Commemorate 50th Year of Chinua Achebe’s ‘Arrow of God’

Wednesday, September 24, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The Department of African American Studies (AAS) in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a symposium in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s landmark book “Arrow of God.” The event, which is free and open to…

STEM

New Cooling System Heats up Physics Research

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to support ongoing work in quantum information science. Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, is the recipient of a $230,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award…

Philosopher to Deliver Anbar Lectures at Syracuse University, Temple Adath Yeshurun

Thursday, September 18, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Thomas Hurka, the Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto, will deliver the seventh annual Anbar Family Lecture at Syracuse University and Temple Adath Yeshurun. Hurka’s Syracuse lecture, “More Seriously Wrong,” is Monday,…