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Campus & Community

Recent Coronavirus Events Prompt Additional Action, Coordination and Planning

Monday, March 2, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: The first case of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in New York state and the second death in the United States caused by the virus were confirmed yesterday. These developments, combined with news over the weekend of…

Campus & Community

Zell Lecture with Magda Matache Examines Centuries of Roma Enslavement and Road to Healing

Monday, March 2, 2020, By Jennifer Russo

Romani justice scholar and activist Margareta (Magda) Matache, director of the Roma program at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, will present the School of Education’s annual Zell Lecture on Tuesday, March 3, at 6 p.m. in…

Business & Economy

Shumer Wins Campuswide InVenture Prize

Thursday, February 27, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Matthew Shumer ’22, founder of Visos, the first virtual reality (VR) headset specifically designed for health care applications, has won Syracuse University’s InVenture Prize campus qualifier competition, sponsored by the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries. He received…

STEM

Two College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Members Earn NSF CAREER Awards

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Denver Whittington, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, and Weiwei Zheng, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, are principal investigators for separate five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a…

STEM

M. Lisa Manning Named William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

M. Lisa Manning, professor of physics and founding director of BioInspired Syracuse: Institute for Material and Living Systems, has been named the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics. This highly selective professorship was established in 1971 by a grant from…

Health & Society

Falk College and Syracuse University Career Services Host Community Health and Wellness Alumni Speaker Series

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By News Staff

The Falk College and Syracuse University Career Services present The Alumni Speaker Series: Community Health and Wellness on March 3, 2020, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Grant Auditorium, followed by a networking reception with refreshments from 5 to 7 p.m….

Health & Society

Syracuse University, CNY Care Collaborative Inc. Launch Care Coordination Certificate Program

Monday, February 24, 2020, By Michele Barrett

An enhanced training program, funded by the Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) and developed by Falk College’s School of Social Work in partnership with the CNY Regional Planning Consortium (RPC), and other state and local stakeholders, will benefit frontline…

Campus & Community

Best Local Places to Find a Good Book

Monday, February 24, 2020, By Kevin Morrow

March is National Reading Month. But, of course, you knew that. You like to read books. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have opened this article about where to find good books. So, where do you find them? We have a few ideas,…

STEM

SyracuseCoE Awards Funding for Eight Research and Innovation Projects Led by Faculty Fellows

Friday, February 21, 2020, By Kerrie Marshall

SyracuseCoE announced that eight research and innovations projects led by its faculty fellows were competitively selected to receive awards totaling $109,368. The new projects engage 15 cross-disciplinary faculty members from Syracuse University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF),…

Business & Economy

Maxwell School Faculty Publish Study on Transnational Crime

Wednesday, February 19, 2020, By News Staff

In their new book, “Transnational Crime and Black Spots: Rethinking Sovereignty and the Global Economy,” published by Palgrave MacMillan, Maxwell School faculty members Stuart Brown and Margaret Hermann examine 80 safe havens across the globe from which transnational criminal, insurgent…