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Media, Law & Policy

Shubha Ghosh, TCLC Help a Scientist Bring a Diagnostic Innovation to Market

Monday, September 18, 2017, By Martin Walls

In 2000, when she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel from Colombia to study genetic engineering at the University of Arkansas, Magnolia Ariza-Nieto says she thought she had won the lottery. But with that elation came a sense of…

Campus & Community

Onondaga Citizens League Invites Public to Discuss ‘State of Community Engagement Infrastructure in CNY’

Monday, September 18, 2017, By Eileen Jevis

The Onondaga Citizens League (OCL) has announced the kick-off of its 2017/18 study, “The State of the Community Engagement Infrastructure in CNY.” Using community input, the study committee will look at the state of community engagement in the region—who is involved,…

Vox

Climate Change is Strengthening Forest Fires

Thursday, September 14, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Anastasia Selby, an MFA candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences, fought wildfires for seven years in the 2000s. She knows how a fire of massive proportions can start from a singular spark from a vehicle. Being a veteran…

Arts & Culture

OnStage Ranks Syracuse Among Top 10 for Theater Design and Technology

Thursday, September 14, 2017, By Erica Blust

The blog OnStage has ranked Syracuse No. 6 on its list of the “Top Ten BFA Theatre Design & Tech Programs in the Country for 2017-18.” The University’s theater design and technology program is located in the College of Visual…

Health & Society

Shannon Monnat Named Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion

Thursday, September 14, 2017, By Renée Gearhart Levy

Shannon Monnat, a rural demographer and sociologist whose work focuses on public health, joins the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion. Monnat studies health disparities, stratification and inequality,…

Campus & Community

Gwynne Wilcox ’74 Recalls Her SU Experience, Start of CBT (Q&A)

Wednesday, September 13, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Since its inception in 1983, the triennial Coming Back Together (CBT) reunion has far exceeded the expectations of Gwynne A. Wilcox ’74. She was one of a small group of alumni who helped plan the first reunion. “When we started,…

Arts & Culture

Actor-singer Taye Diggs ’93 Returns to Campus for Coming Back Together Book Signing

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Most people know Taye Diggs ’93 as an award-winning actor and singer, but when he participates in this week’s Coming Back Together reunion for African American and Latino alumni, he will do so as a best-selling author. Diggs is the creator of…

STEM

Curious Properties

Monday, September 11, 2017, By News Staff

Editor’s Note: The following piece was prepared for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The article highlights three members of Syracuse’s Department of Physics: Mark Bowick, the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics, as well…

Arts & Culture

‘The Three Musketeers’ Brings Fun For All to Syracuse Stage

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Joanna Penalva

Artistic director Bob Hupp makes his directorial debut as Syracuse Stage opens the 17/18 season with the swashbuckling adventure “The Three Musketeers”. This action-packed adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 classic novel opens Friday, Sept. 22, in the Archbold Theatre at…

Media, Law & Policy

Acclaimed Journalist Soledad O’Brien Headlines Coming Back Together, University Lectures series

Friday, September 8, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Tickets for Soledad O’Brien (available at boxoffice.syr.edu) are free for CBT registrants, $5 for SU/SUNY-ESF students with I.D. and $10 for the public. When Soledad O’Brien was working on the acclaimed CNN series “Black in America,” someone asked her what she had…