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Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences are pairing chemical analyses with micropaleontology—the study of tiny fossilized organisms—to better understand how global marine life was affected by a rapid warming event more than 55 million years ago.

Medicolegal death investigation (MDI) is the focus of a new graduate certificate program in the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Advanced Certificate in MDI is a 12-credit-hour program targeting…

Most people only think about the electricity that powers our homes and gadgets when it isn’t there. When the power is humming, we tend to take it for granted. The trouble is, the network that delivers the electricity to keep…

A Brookings Institution study released last week claimed that though student debt levels have been increasing at a fast pace for at least two decades, there is no crisis in the offing. The authors say that increases in average lifetime…

The intersection of church and cinema is the subject of a major article by a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences. Deborah Justice, the Carole and Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow in the Department of Art and…

A team from the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is conducting research analysis using big data sets from the Pecan Street Research Consortium, a global collaboration working on utility system operations, climate change, integration of distributed energy and storage, and…

Twelve graduating seniors have been named as the 2014 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. University Scholars will represent the entire graduating class at the May 11 Commencement ceremony. On Thursday, April 24, the scholars…

In the St. Lawrence River watershed, the recovery of the Blanding’s turtle and the golden-winged warbler is an important indicator for researchers assessing the viability of public-private partnerships to restore wetlands. Their work is providing answers to ensure conservation efforts in this region—and possibly beyond.

Heavy use of the Internet and digital communications technologies in recent American presidential campaigns may make it seem that the Internet Age has had a democratizing effect on those efforts. That notion is disputed by School of Information Studies Associate…

Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty was a graduate student at the University of Illinois in 1983 when she and her colleague, Ann Russo, developed the idea for an international women’s conference on feminist perspectives from the Global South and North. It marked the start of her scholarly life in social justice.