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STEM

Air Travel Stinks: Improving Air Quality on Planes

Monday, November 24, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

As most people know all too well, you often can’t pick the person sitting next to you on an airplane. Sometimes that can make for an unpleasant flight, especially if your neighbor had a plate of garlic fries in the…

Fast Forward Syracuse November Update

Friday, November 21, 2014, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Fast Forward Syracuse is a roadmap for the future and a guide to help ensure the success of the University in the context of a changing and challenging higher education environment. It’s a way to increase the value of the…

Veterans

Research to Assess How Tech May Aid Refugees, Veterans in Transitions

Thursday, November 20, 2014, By Diane Stirling

How do people get back to normal life when adjusting their perspectives, social relationships, identities and other everyday facets after experiencing major cultural and environmental disruptions? Could specific technologies be designed to help them? Those are questions School of Information…

Whitman ‘Team Dream’ Seeks Votes in Price Waterhouse Coopers Challenge

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, By Keith Kobland

They call themselves Team Dream, a formidable group of four students from the Whitman School of Management who have accepted the challenge. It’s a challenge that tests their communication and critical thinking skills. They’re quite capable. But they could use…

Democratizing Knowledge Collective Receives Mellon Grant

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, By Rob Enslin

“Just Academic Spaces” is the theme of a three-year, $500,000 project, organized and presented by the Democratizing Knowledge (DK) Collective in the College of Arts and Sciences and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-directed by professors Linda Carty…

Geologists Shed Light on Formation of Alaska Range

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Geologists in the College of Arts and Sciences have recently figured out what has caused the Alaska Range to form the way it has and why the range boasts such an enigmatic topographic signature.

New Exhibition Combines Two Series to Give New Look at New Orleans

Tuesday, November 18, 2014, By Erica Blust

“Elysian Fields,” a two-person show featuring the work of Tammy Mercure and Courtney Asztalos G’17, is now on exhibit at the J&J Smith Gallery, located on the first floor of Smith Hall, through Wednesday, Dec. 10. The show combines photographs…

Students Establish Art Bench to Connect Communities

Monday, November 17, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

On the edge of campus, the Syracuse University campus and the east University neighborhood meet up at Comstock and Euclid avenues. Bikers, drivers and pedestrians move quickly through this bustling intersection every day. Now they have a reason to linger.

Campus & Community

Message from Provost Spina to Faculty and University Colleagues

Sunday, November 16, 2014, By News Staff

Over the past 24 hours, there have been significant and unfortunate misunderstandings regarding the current situation in Crouse-Hinds Hall. I want to take this opportunity to reach out to you directly and provide the following facts and perspectives: Tomorrow, Monday,…

Chancellor Syverud Visits Syracuse University Hillel

Friday, November 14, 2014, By News Staff

When Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud recently sat down in the conference room in the Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life, he looked out the window to see his own house across Walnut Park. “Seriously,” he said. “I am your…