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STEM

Professor Ian Hosein, Students Develop Technology to Increase Solar Cell Efficiency

Friday, November 11, 2016, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Solar technology—capturing the power of the sun to produce electricity—has been around in some form since the 19th century. There is currently 31.6 gigawatts (GW) of total installed solar capacity in the United States, enough to power 6.2 million American…

Veterans

‘Our Sworn Duty’

Friday, November 11, 2016, By Sean Kirst

Fred Talbot wrote the poem seven years ago. Today, it will be part of Syracuse University’s Veterans Day remembrance ceremonies, at Hendricks Chapel.

Arts & Culture

Now On View at SUArt Galleries: ‘It’s A Wrap!: West African Textiles’

Thursday, November 10, 2016, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries presents “It’s A Wrap! West African Textiles,” an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana,…

Arts & Culture

VPA Dean Michael Tick Appointed to Board of International Council of Fine Arts Deans

Thursday, November 10, 2016, By Erica Blust

Dean Michael S. Tick of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has been appointed to the board of directors of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). Tick will serve a three-year term (2016-19). ICFAD is a…

Campus & Community

Provost Wheatly Appoints Faculty Salary Review Committee

Thursday, November 10, 2016, By Carol Boll

Provost Michele Wheatly has appointed 18 members of the faculty and academic leadership to serve on a Faculty Salary Review Committee. The appointees were identified in partnership with the University Senate, whose Agenda Committee had nominated individuals from each school…

Health & Society

Health Services Earns AAAHC Accreditation

Tuesday, November 8, 2016, By Shannon Andre

Health Services has earned full accreditation and reaccreditation for another three years from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).  The AAAHC accredits more than 6,000 medical facilities with ambulatory care, and most frequently serves as the accrediting body for…

Arts & Culture

Turner Semester M.F.A. Students to Present Los Angeles Exhibition

Friday, November 4, 2016, By Erica Blust

Three master of fine arts (M.F.A.) students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Art who are currently studying and living in Los Angeles as part of the college’s Turner Semester will present the exhibition “Tumult…

Media, Law & Policy

Director of Tully Center Calls ‘Ballot Selfie’ a Test of Competing First Amendment Issues

Thursday, November 3, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Courts around the country are deciding an issue involving a timeless expression of democracy and a newer form expression of self-absorption: the so called “selfie” photograph taken inside a polling place. It’s a fairly new phenonenon, and getting plenty of…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Student Journalists Participate in Democracy in Action Project

Thursday, November 3, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Student journalists at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications are about to get a real-life taste of election coverage by taking part in a project that will place them at the center of one of our most democratic processes….

STEM

Heart of a Lion

Wednesday, November 2, 2016, By Rob Enslin

When Marilyn Kerr arrived at Syracuse in 1970, science was a male-dominated profession. The idea of a woman donning a white lab coat and waxing rhapsodic about biology or chemistry seemed, in those days, about as likely as someone synthesizing…