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NBC News

Nina Kohn’s research featured in “Britney Spears’ conservatorship can be both totally legal and quite bad for her. Many are.”

Monday, December 14, 2020, By Lily Datz

The research of Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education in the College of Law, was cited in the NBC News opinion piece “Britney Spears’ conservatorship can be both totally legal and…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Updates the University Senate on Spring Planning, Searches and Diversity Efforts

Wednesday, December 9, 2020, By News Staff

In his remarks to the University Senate, Chancellor Kent Syverud provided updates on spring planning, the search for a leader for the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, progress on the provost search and the external review of the…

Health & Society

Skepticism of Masks, Vaccinations Isn’t New: Ph.D. Candidate’s Research on 19th-Century Britain Provides Lessons for Today

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, By Brandon Dyer

Haejoo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is currently researching and writing her dissertation “Medical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” She is exploring 19th-century British anti-vaccination periodicals and pamphlets to examine the rhetoric. “When…

STEM

Dacheng Ren Named Permanent Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, November 19, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Dacheng Ren, Ph.D., has been named the permanent associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS). Ren is the Stevenson Endowed Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, and served…

Arts & Culture

Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Professor Awarded for Outstanding Research of a Medieval Monastic Text

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Few things in life excite Matthieu Herman van der Meer more than digging into a 1,000-year-old handwritten anonymous text. “I have always had a fascination for medieval manuscripts,” says van der Meer, assistant teaching professor of classics in the College…

STEM

Engineering and Chemistry Professors Receive Powe Award to Enrich Research, Growth

Wednesday, November 11, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Mechanical and aerospace engineering Professor Yeqing Wang from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and chemistry Professor Davoud Mozhdehi from the College of Arts and Sciences were selected as recipients of competitive 2020-2021 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Win International Design Workshop Grand Prize

Monday, November 9, 2020, By Julie Sharkey

A team of fifth-year School of Architecture students have won the grand prize at this year’s Busan International Architectural Design Workshop (BIADW)—an intensive academic program intended to encourage rigorous research and ideas creation of architecture major students from around the…

Campus & Community

New Special Collections Research Center Exhibit: ‘Provisions for Your Research Journey’

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) announces a new exhibition located in the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The exhibition, “Survival Kit: Provisions for Your Research Journey,” is on display now through…

STEM

Syracuse Biologists Publish Research on the Persistence of Mutualisms in ‘Science’

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

The sign of a healthy personal relationship is one that is equally mutual—where you get out just as much as you put in. Nature has its own version of a healthy relationship. Known as mutualisms, they are interactions between species…

STEM

Syracuse University Researchers Collaborate with Harvard, Georgia Tech, Resources for the Future to Give Environmental Policies Context

Friday, October 30, 2020, By Brandon Dyer

The electrical sector comprises companies that generate, transmit and distribute electric power. Every industry, business and member of the public is a customer and, therefore, a stakeholder. The electrical sector also encompasses public regulatory agencies. All combined, the sector accounts…