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Annual Ten Tons of Love Charity Drive

Thursday, December 10, 2015, By Gerard McTigue

Through Friday, Dec. 18, donations and volunteers are needed for this year’s Ten Tons of Love winter collection, organized by the Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services (OCCS). Each winter and spring, OCCS, part of the Division of Student Affairs,…

Arts & Culture

Tom Mason ’01 Teams with Ken Burns for Short Film on Professor, Author George Saunders

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Emily Kulkus

It all came down to just seven minutes. Two hours of interviews, hours upon hours of pre- and post-production—including intricate theatrical staging, lighting and a professional puppeteer—and at least four months of editing. Then a green light from legendary documentary…

STEM

Professor Sheds New Light on Fracking Debate

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Rob Enslin

A professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is shedding new light on an old debate. Donald Siegel, an accomplished hydrologist and geochemist who chairs the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is…

An Examined Life

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Rev. Robert Grant ’39 never thought he’d go to college. After all, it was the height of the Depression, and his family barely scraped by on his father’s meager salary as a janitor. Then fate intervened, as it would…

SU-Upstate Faculty Collaborators to Pitch Research Proposals

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Carol Boll

Faculty scholars from Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University competing for funds under a new pilot grant program will pitch their research proposals before a panel of judges on Friday, Dec. 11, at the Life Sciences Complex at Syracuse University….

Arts & Culture

Light Work Receives 2016 NEA Art Works Grant

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, By News Staff

The NEA recently announced awards totaling more than $27.6 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2016, including an Art Works award of $50,000 to Light Work to support its Artist-in-Residence Program and the production of Contact Sheet:…

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…

Arts & Culture

SUArt Galleries Presents ‘Poetry Of Content’

Monday, December 7, 2015, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists,” co-curated by David L. Prince, associate director/curator at the SUArt Galleries, and internationally recognized artist and Syracuse University Professor Jerome Witkin. Featuring over 40 pieces of…