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Arts & Culture

Selections from ‘The A-Bomb and Humanity’ to Be Exhibited Aug. 10-19

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, By Erica Blust

“Present Tense,” selections from “The A-Bomb and Humanity,” a set of 40 panels that depict photographs and drawings of the human suffering created when Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were destroyed by atomic bombs, will be on view Aug. 10-19 at…

STEM

Alumnus Launches DataCuse, Providing Public Access to City Data

Thursday, August 3, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Recently, the City of Syracuse announced the launch of a public data portal, DataCuse, that provides open access to batches of city data. The new tool is part of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s open data policy, to make more data about city…

Business & Economy

Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…

Campus & Community

Students Awarded Top Prizes for Honors Capstone Projects

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

For students in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, the honors capstone project can be a challenge to complete. The project typically requires intensive research, writing, professional or creative work over the course of already busy junior and senior years….

Campus & Community

Two Outstanding Alumni to Receive 2017 Eggers, Generation Orange Awards During Orange Central

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, By John Boccacino

America’s best-known contemporary folk artist and a young alumna dedicated to engaging Syracuse University alumni in Philadelphia will receive alumni awards recognizing their contributions during Orange Central homecoming weekend Oct. 5-8. The Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award will be…

STEM

High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn’t just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school—she was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll’s environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…

STEM

Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Rob Enslin

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”

Veterans

IVMF Awarded Nearly a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Help Advance Government Support of Veterans and Families

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Stephanie Salanger

In separate grants, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) and IBM Center for the Business of Government awarded the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) research and evaluation division over $235,000 to study strategies and approaches to reinvent traditional federal…

STEM

Biochemists Link Synthetic Compound to Hunger-Hormone Production

Thursday, July 27, 2017, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new target by screening a library of roughly 1,600 small molecules for potential disruptors. Because the…

Campus & Community

Message from Chancellor Kent Syverud

Wednesday, July 26, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Today, the federal government announced that the Department of Defense will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military. This decision is inconsistent with Syracuse University’s values of access, and of…