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LGBTQ History Month: A Milestone to Reflect, Celebrate and Grow Community

Friday, September 29, 2023, By News Staff

Each October, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Resource Center unveils a calendar that through the lenses of intersectionality, LGBTQ and global communities reflects on their history and contributions while looking to the future. The University’s official kickoff…

STEM

Setting the Agenda in Biology Research: 2 Professors Join NIH Peer Review Committees

Wednesday, September 27, 2023, By News Staff

The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is known as the “gateway” for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant applications. Expert peer review groups—also called study sections—formed by the CSR assess more than 75% of the thousands of research grant applications…

STEM

Exploring the Existence of Life at 125 Degrees Fahrenheit

Tuesday, September 26, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

There are an estimated 8.7 million eukaryotic species on the planet. These are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. Although eukaryotes include the familiar animals and plants, these only represent two of the more than six…

STEM

How Climate Warming Could Disrupt a Deep-Rooted Relationship

Tuesday, September 26, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Children are taught to leave wild mushrooms alone because of their potential to be poisonous. But trees on the other hand depend on fungi for their well-being. Look no further than ectomycorrhizal fungi, which are organisms that colonize the roots…

Campus & Community

A Commitment to Arts and Sciences Excellence

Thursday, September 21, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

A welcoming community where students of varying backgrounds thrive. An infrastructure that nurtures top-tier research and academics. These are two cornerstones of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) experience. Over the past six years, A&S has shown important strides…

Campus & Community

7 New Representatives Added to the Board of Trustees

Monday, September 18, 2023, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed Dean Michael Speaks and Kathleen (Kati) Foley as representatives to the Board of Trustees. Speaks, dean of the School of Architecture, has been named the academic dean representative to the board, and Foley, project director…

Health & Society

Hendricks Chapel Dean, Chaplains and Students Attend Parliament of the World’s Religions

Monday, September 18, 2023, By News Staff

Representatives from Hendricks Chapel recently attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in August in Chicago. This year’s theme was “A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom and Human Rights.” More than 7,000 participants from more than 95 countries, representing…

Health & Society

Roundtable: 3 School of Education Alumni Define ‘Human Thriving’ in the Context of Global Diversity

Friday, September 15, 2023, By Martin Walls

“Human thriving” is among the areas of distinctive excellence enumerated in the University’s 2023 Academic Strategic Plan. This concept is inspired by the words of Chancellor Erastus Haven. In 1871, he charged Syracuse students “to thrive here, to learn here,…

STEM

Experts Say Federal Agency or Global Organization Should Govern AI, New Survey Co-sponsored by Two University Institutes Finds

Wednesday, September 6, 2023, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A new survey co-sponsored by two Syracuse University institutes finds that a majority of computer science experts at top U.S research universities want to see the creation of a new federal agency or global organization to govern artificial intelligence (AI)….

Campus & Community

Shana Kushner Gadarian Named Maxwell School’s Associate Dean for Research

Wednesday, August 30, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

Shana Kushner Gadarian has been appointed the incoming associate dean for research at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. A member of the school’s faculty since 2011, she is professor and chair of political science and the Merle…