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Campus & Community

Call for Applications: Lender Center Student Research Fellowship Program

Tuesday, August 27, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Students interested in researching how social justice issues and historic racism practices impact public health are invited to apply for the 2024-26 Lender Center for Social Justice Student Fellowship Program. Their project will explore the historic legacy of “redlining,” a discriminatory…

Campus & Community

Remembering Arts and Sciences Emeritus Professor John Baldwin

Tuesday, August 27, 2024, By News Staff

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) mourns the passing of John Baldwin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of chemistry. Remembered as a dynamic scholar of physical organic chemistry, Baldwin was a pioneer in utilizing density functional theory to gain insight into…

STEM

Innovator From the Mathematics Department Receives the Abraham Wald Prize

Tuesday, August 27, 2024, By Kerrie Marshall

Professor Pinyuen Chen from the Department of Mathematics has received an award that honors the best publication each year from the Journal of Sequential Analysis. The Abraham Wald Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of sequential…

Campus & Community

Orange Connections Run Deep in the Kehr/Hirsh Family Tree

Friday, August 23, 2024, By John Boccacino

On an overcast Mother’s Day in 2018, a photo was taken outside of the Hall of Languages depicting a proud Syracuse University graduate, Ryan Kehr ’18, surrounded by happy family members. It’s the kind of photo that gets taken repeatedly…

Media Tip Sheets

The Misinformation Threatening the Pro-Democracy Movement of Bangladesh

Friday, August 16, 2024, By Ellen Mbuqe

Reporters covering the ongoing issues in Bangladesh after a pro-democracy protest overthrew the government of Sheikh Hasina, please see comments from Syracuse University Professor Farhana Sultana. Professor Sultana wrote an op-ed in The Diplomat about the misinformation targeting the democratic….

Media, Law & Policy

‘I Can’t Wait to Get Started’: Q&A With New College of Law Dean Terence Lau

Monday, August 5, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

After graduating from the College of Law in 1998, Terence Lau embarked on a legal career that took him from Detroit to France to Thailand to the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked in the Office of the General Counsel at…

Campus & Community

Collin Capano ’05, G’11 Breaking New Ground With Open Source Program Office and Astrophysics Research

Friday, July 19, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Collin Capano ’05, G’11, director of the University’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO), has been in the right place at the right time for breakthrough discoveries and innovative programming several times in his career. His latest role is another…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s First Female Full-Time Professor Was an ‘Indomitable Presence’

Friday, July 5, 2024, By News Staff

Marguerite J. Fisher G’42  joined the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs faculty in August 1943, as war raged across the globe. While the war necessitated women’s entry into the workforce, roles remained limited. Fisher, the first female promoted…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Names Inaugural Albert and Betty Hill Professor

Tuesday, July 2, 2024, By Dawn McWilliams

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management has recently named Professor Natarajan Balasubramanian the inaugural Albert & Betty Hill Professor, effective July 1. With a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, Balasubramanian joined the Whitman School in 2009….

STEM

Biology Professor Receives NSF Grant to Study ‘Community Coalescence’

Tuesday, July 2, 2024, By News Staff

Each fermented food—kombucha, sauerkraut or sourdough bread—is the result of an active, unique microbiome, which is the microbial community in a particular environment. A sourdough starter, for instance, is a distinctive community of yeasts and bacteria that ferments carbohydrates in…