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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…

Campus & Community

Annual Clements Internship Award Application Now Open

Monday, December 7, 2015, By Gerard McTigue

Career Services has announced that the application for the annual Mark and Pearle Clements Internship Award has now opened. This award enables students to undertake unique, self-cultivated internships that may otherwise be financially impossible. Clements interns usually spend the summer…

Campus & Community

Information on Winter Break/Green Days Operating Schedule

Saturday, December 5, 2015, By News Staff

The University will be operating under its Green Days format for the Winter Break period from 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 23,  through Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. Beginning at 5 p.m. Dec. 23, all University buildings will operate on a…

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

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…

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…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Unveils Student’s Artwork in Student Life Office

Tuesday, December 1, 2015, By Robert Conrad

The office now displays six 5’ by 4’ canvas paintings called “The Pursuit of Justice” by McKinney that depict scenes from American law and society.

STEM

Syracuse One of Six Institutions in Science Policy Exchange

Monday, November 30, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Lubin House hosted a reception recently to showcase the Science Policy Exchange (SPE) and the results from its first set of projects. SPE was established by six leading research institutions, including Syracuse University, associated with four long-term ecological…

Is the Strength of ISIS Real?

Wednesday, November 25, 2015, By Keith Kobland

Secretary of State John Kerry has vowed that the world will defeat ISIS, telling reporters on Monday that ISIS is “not 10 feet tall”. However, considering recent terrorist attacks in Paris France, and the bombing of a Russian commercial jetliner,…

STEM

Professor Works on Innovations in Window Efficiencies

Monday, November 23, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Professor Eric Schiff wants to see innovative ways to retrofit single-pane windows to make them more efficient. As a program director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, he is leading an effort to make that happen.