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Arts & Culture

Scholar Spotlight: Samantha Skaller ’17

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Because of her position as one of 17 students on the national “It’s On Us” student advisory committee, Samantha Skaller of Brewster, New York, introduced U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. at the organization’s recent event held in Goldstein Auditorium….

Arts & Culture

New 914Works Exhibition Features Work by VPA Graduate Students

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, By Erica Blust

Work by Stefan Marc Zoller G’16 and Brent Michael Erickson G’16, both graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art, is featured in the new exhibition “Over and Over” at 914Works, 914 E. Genesee St.,…

STEM

Eftekharnejad Secures Grant to Protect Power Systems from Cyberattacks

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Sara Eftekharnejad, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a $499,550 National Science Foundation grant to investigate securing the smart grid from cyberthreats. The findings…

STEM

Polymer Puts New Medical Solutions within Reach

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, By News Staff

Researchers, particularly those in the medical field, have been searching for a way to combine the properties of liquid crystallinity with those of hydrogels. Liquid crystals are characterized as having the fluidity of liquid but some of the order of…

Update: Power Restored to Campus

Saturday, December 5, 2015, By Keith Kobland

(Updated as of 1:45 p.m.) National Grid has now restored power to all portions of campus disrupted by an outage earlier today. (From earlier) National Grid crews are working to restore electricity in buildings hit by a power outage Saturday…

Campus & Community

Scozzafava Named VP for Information Technology, Chief Information Officer

Friday, December 4, 2015, By Carol Boll

Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy announced today that Samuel Scozzafava Jr. has been named vice president for information technology and chief information officer for the University. The appointment is effective immediately. Scozzafava has served as interim CIO since…

STEM

Engineers Take Italy

Thursday, December 3, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Few places are as suitable for higher learning as Florence, renowned as the epicenter of the Renaissance. This past spring, a group of second-year students studying aerospace, civil, environmental and mechanical engineering participated in a new study abroad opportunity at…

STEM

Varshney Receives Grant for Missile Defense Research

Thursday, December 3, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Professor Pramod K. Varshney has been awarded a $350,000 Missile Defense Agency grant through the Boston Fusion Corp. Varshney will work with Boston Fusion, a data analytics and research company, to develop a parametric framework to accurately classify targets for ballistic…

‘Holidays at Hendricks’ Heralds the Season Dec. 6

Wednesday, December 2, 2015, By News Staff

Hundreds of musicians will converge on the University for “Holidays at Hendricks,” taking place Sunday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in historic Hendricks Chapel. A campus tradition for more than a decade, the concert is free and open to the…

Campus & Community

Scholar Spotlight: Adeyemi Adediran ’16

Wednesday, December 2, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Adeyemi Adediran transferred to Syracuse University from a university in his home country of Nigeria in 2014. A philosophy major, he won that department’s Peterfreund Prize for undergraduates this past summer. He spent the summer volunteering at a community center…