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Health & Society

Falk Students, Faculty Advocate for Women’s Right to Adequate Nutrition at UN Meetings

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By News Staff

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,…

STEM

iSchool Faculty, Students Presenting at Big Data in Libraries Conference

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Diane Stirling

School of Information Studies faculty and students are among the presenters for the Big Data in Libraries conference taking place April 11 in Syracuse. Assistant Professor Bei Yu will speak on “Managing and Curating Undergraduate-Generated Qualitative Data.” Sarah Bratt, a…

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…

Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By Rob Enslin

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…

Shark Tank Comes to Syracuse

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By News Staff

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…

Arts Engage to Present Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble April 5

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University Arts Engage will present Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble performing “The Soul’s Messenger” on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 220 E. Fayette St. in downtown Syracuse. Tickets are available through SU Arts…

Campus & Community

Participants Needed for Research Project on Health Behaviors Among African-American College Students

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By News Staff

We invite you for participation in the research project “Health Behaviors among African American College Students.” This study was designed to better understand determinants of health behaviors in college students of African descent. College students of African descent have not…

Getting to Know: Assistant Professor Barbara Stripling, President of the ALA

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The idea that access to libraries–and to the information, materials and guidance available therein is a right community members should be guaranteed–is a platform that has taken Barbara Stripling to all corners of the United States and around the world….

Campus & Community

Research Computing Renaissance at SU

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Christopher C. Finkle

Recent developments in Syracuse University’s OrangeGrid and Academic Virtual Hosting Environments (AVHE)—both centrally managed by Information Technology and Services (ITS)—increase the University’s resources for compute intensive academic research, and allow SU’s researchers to tackle new and greater computational tasks, get…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Announces 2014/15 Season

Monday, March 31, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse Stage announces its 2014/15 Season, featuring recent Broadway hits, award-winning shows, celebrated playwrights and an international exchange. Kicking things off in September is the raucous comedy and 2013 Tony winner for Best Play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and…