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Professors Test Boundaries of ‘New Physics’ with Discovery of Four-Quark Hadron

Monday, April 14, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in The College of Arts and Sciences have helped confirm the existence of exotic hadrons—a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. Their finding is the subject of a forthcoming article, prepared by the…

STEM

Biologist Awarded Prestigious Research Grant

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

To say the competition for the 2014 International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants was fierce would be a massive understatement. In fact, when the process began more than a year ago, 844 letters of intent were submitted…

VPA, Emme ’85 Launch ‘Fashion Without Limits’ Design Initiative

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By Erica Blust

The fashion design program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has joined with iconic supermodel and entrepreneur Emme ’85 to launch “Fashion Without Limits,” a design initiative that promotes the creation of size 12+ designs in the junior year through a special competition.

Veterans

Haynie Named Chairman of Labor Department Advisory Committee

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, the executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has been named by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to serve as the chairman of the department’s Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Employment, Training, and Employer…

Deep Findings

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Rob Enslin

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…

Campus & Community

Fast Forward Winners Give Voice to Inspired Ideas

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

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…

Health & Society

Goode’s Book on Modern Historical Thought Reissued in Paperback

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Syracuse University Associate Professor of English Mike Goode challenges the conventional accounts of the development of modern historical thought in his book “Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890” (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was reissued as a paperback…

Campus & Community

Philanthropy Week Kicks off Monday

Friday, March 28, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s annual Philanthropy Week will kick off on Monday, March 31, beginning a weeklong series of special events planned to raise awareness about the critical role that philanthropy plays at the University—and in society as a whole—and to recognize…

Campus & Community

‘Tomorrow Happens Here’: The Experience of SXSW

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive is the place to be to find out “what’s next” in creative content and digital technologies. “I always loved the old SXSW tagline: ‘Tomorrow Happens Here,’ and it still feels true,” says Sean Branagan, director…

British Government Announces Funding for Lockerbie Trust

Thursday, March 20, 2014, By News Staff

The United Kingdom will give £100,000 in funding to the Lockerbie Trust, a Scottish charity that supports the Lockerbie Scholars chosen annually to study at Syracuse University. The funds add to the £60,000 pledged by Scotland’s government to the charity in December 2013.