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Science on Mars Time: Roving the Red Planet with Curiosity
The Mars rover Curiosity is a roaming science lab on the Red Planet that is continually sending information to scientists on Earth. One of those scientists is Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),…
Science on Mars Time: Roving the Red Planet with Curiosity
The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce a lecture by Dr. Laurie Leshin, Dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Science on Mars Time: Roving the Red Planet with Curiosity Thursday, April 4, at 4pm…
Rubinstein: Anthropologists Should Contribute to National Security Discussion
Robert Rubinstein is generally known as a peaceable guy. The Maxwell School professor of anthropology and international relations is soft-spoken. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. He was a cofounder of the Commission on Peace and Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Race for the Cure! Join the SU orangeforpink Team & Fight Breast Cancer
The official SU orangeforpink team will enter the CNY Komen Race for the Cure on May 18. Sign up and become a member of the SU orangeforpink team TODAY. Make an IMPACT. What started in 1995 as a small 2,000…
‘Antarctic Circumpolar Current Evolution and its Impact on Climate and Global Ocean Circulation’
The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Miriam Katz from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “Antarctic Circumpolar Current Evolution and its Impact on Climate and Global Ocean Circulation”. The lecture will be…
Report from Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism Argues for a National Veterans Strategy
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University released a policy report Feb. 19 that details what the authors describe as a “historic opportunity” related to the potential…
SU’s new Mobile Device Security Standard
Security threats to mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, are clearly on the rise. The frequency of mobile threats doubled between 2010 and 2011, says Symantec in its recently released annual Cybercrime Report. 35 percent of online adults worldwide have…
Getting to Know: New Student Association President Allie Curtis
Student Association Vice President Allie Curtis, a junior public relations and political science dual major, was announced the winner of the 57th session SA presidential race on Nov. 16. Curtis joined the SA her first semester on campus, and says that…
Folk arts curator to discuss quilts as visual discourse of conflict, reconciliation and memory Oct. 22
Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this fall is “Memory-Media-Archive,” continues with a presentation on the social significance of traditional material culture.
Study on self-healing curved crystals published in ‘Nature Materials’
In a paper just published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers including Syracuse University physicist Mark Bowick has succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal by inserting an extra particle, and then watching as the crystal “heals” itself.