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Falk Students, Faculty Advocate for Women’s Right to Adequate Nutrition at UN Meetings
Students in the Falk College’s new graduate course, FST 700, “Gender, Food and Rights,” attended the United Nations’ annual Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings during spring break. Led by food studies Professor Anne Bellows, three students—Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo,…
Deep Findings
When Cathryn Newton helped discover the USS Monitor in 1973, she was dealing with not just the most famous shipwreck of the Civil War (and of all U.S. naval history), but a paleontological and archaeological find of “epoch” proportions. “Shipwrecks…
Fast Forward Winners Give Voice to Inspired Ideas
They have an idea to make it better and the passion to make it work. Thirteen entrants—both individuals and teams—have been selected as winners in the Fast Forward competition, in which the University will fund student projects that demonstrate how…
Engineering Students Add ‘Spark’ to Advanced Manufacturing
Students from Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science recently took part in a competition that aims to add some spark to the field of advanced manufacturing. As part of the second annual ‘Spark’ Innovation Competition, the students worked…
Student Barter Day Along Connective Corridor
If you need it, someone has it. If you have it, someone needs it. This is the inspiration behind the first Student Barter Day on the Connective Corridor, which will take place Saturday, April 5, from 3:30-6:30 p.m. The day…
Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes
Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…
Take Back the Night 2014 Events Begin April 7
From April 7-9, the Advocacy Center, within the Division of Student Affairs, will host a series of Take Back the Night activities and events dedicated to raising awareness about sexual and relationship violence. Members of the campus and local community…
Shark Tank Comes to Syracuse
It takes an entrepreneurial ecosystem to help turn an idea into a venture. And plenty of students are taking on the challenge of executing on their ideas. Students need to connect with entrepreneurs, and students and the Central New York…
‘Elect Her’ Workshop Trains, Inspires College Women to Run for Political Office
Syracuse University will host an “Elect Her” training workshop on Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in 500 Hall of Languages Room 500. “Elect Her—Campus Women Win” is the only program in the country that encourages and inspires young…
IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership
A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…