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Campus & Community

COVID-19 Update: Spring 2021 Underway, Important Reminders to Stay Healthy and Safe

Wednesday, February 10, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: Welcome back to campus and to the Spring 2021 academic semester! As the new semester gets underway, I am writing to share some important information. First, however, I want to say thank you to…

Campus & Community

From the Testing Center to Your Inbox: How COVID-19 Samples Get Analyzed

Wednesday, February 10, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

As Syracuse University gears up to double or triple the number of COVID-19 screening tests in the spring semester, the University’s Public Health Team had to do more than reconfigure the Stadium Testing Center. To get results from the stadium…

Campus & Community

Ash Wednesday Schedule Announced

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, By News Staff

Ash Wednesday is Feb. 17, marking the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. Lent is a 40-day period of reflection that guides people of Christian faith to the “Triduum,” or Sacred Three Days, that begins on the evening of…

Sen. Klobuchar’s Antitrust Bill Sets Stage For Future Reform

Monday, February 8, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

This month, Sen. Amy Klobuchar unveiled an antitrust reform bill that could enhance regulations and crack down on anticompetitive practices at the nation’s largest tech operations including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Act is…

Campus & Community

Gifting Solace in Words and Images

Monday, February 8, 2021, By Paula Meseroll

Faced with creating classwork for an incoming cohort of first-year photography students and hampered by the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, Associate Professor Doug DuBois of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia came up…

STEM

What Drugs Cause Birth Defects? Search for Answers Turbocharges Zhen Ma’s Bioengineering Lab

Monday, February 8, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Zhen Ma arrived at Syracuse University in 2016, fresh from a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, to set up his own lab. Appointed assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering and the Carol and Samuel Nappi…

STEM

Syracuse Native Finds Career in Team Science

Monday, February 8, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Plansky Hoang ’15, G’20 is the youngest of seven children born to immigrant parents in Syracuse. She attended Henninger High School and came to Syracuse University as an undergraduate to major in biomedical and chemical engineering. “When I started college,…

Campus & Community

6 Things to Know About the Upgraded COVID-19 Stadium Testing Center

Friday, February 5, 2021, By Jen Plummer

The University conducted more than 100,000 COVID-19 tests in the fall semester. In the spring semester, the University’s Public Health Team expects to double, or even triple, that number. How will they do that? The team is expanding and optimizing…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Announces Spring 2021 Visiting Critics

Thursday, February 4, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Four studios will be held on campus this spring. The School of Architecture is also offering…

STEM

Syracuse University’s Beloved Stadium to Serve as Campus’ Largest Classroom This Semester

Thursday, February 4, 2021, By Keith Kobland

Syracuse University’s beloved stadium has served as home for some of the region’s greatest sporting events, concerts and Commencement, the most important rite of passage for college students. Now, it will serve another purpose: as the University’s largest classroom ever….