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Undergraduate Social Work Program Earns Top 10 Ranking from USA Today

Friday, October 10, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Syracuse University’s School of Social Work in the Falk College was ranked eighth out of 332 programs studied, according to recently released results published in USA Today. The rankings are based on data from College Factual’s outcome-based higher education rankings…

Deborah A. Coquillon Memorial Award Helps Seniors ‘Pay It Forward’

Thursday, October 9, 2014, By Rob Enslin

When Tesia Kim ’13 began working for Teach for America, she found herself at a medical prep school in Chicago that was so poor, some of her students couldn’t afford binders and notebooks. “Two students didn’t have $25 for scrubs,”…

Pride of the Orange, Syracuse Athletics Get Boost as Alumni Establish Twirler, Lacrosse Scholarships

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Erica Blust

Lifelong Orange supporters John H. ’59 (ESF) and Janet K. (Smith) Dean ’61 (VPA), who met and later married on the Syracuse University campus, have established two new student scholarships: the Janet Kay Smith Feature Twirler Scholarship and the John…

SU Champions National Cyber Security Month During October

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Christopher C. Finkle

National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)—observed every October—was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. Here at Syracuse University, Information Technology and…

STEM

Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

Monday, October 6, 2014, By News Staff

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…

Health & Society

R. David Lankes Writes About Being ‘The Boring Patient’

Thursday, October 2, 2014, By Diane Stirling

Professor R. David Lankes shares a personalized, humor-filled account of his experience being diagnosed with and living with cancer over the last two-plus years in his new book “The Boring Patient.”

NSF Fellows Given Creative Freedom to Explore Varied Topics

Thursday, October 2, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Ph.D. student Ariel Ash-Shakoor is helping create biomaterials that are better able to interact with human cells. She was one of three Syracuse University students in 2014 given a strong nod of encouragement to continue in their various fields through a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Health & Society

Power Plant Standards Could Save Thousands of U.S. Lives Every Year

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By News Staff

Power plant standards to cut climate-changing carbon emissions will reduce other harmful air pollution and provide substantial human health benefits, according to a new study released Sept. 30 by scientists from Syracuse, Harvard and Boston universities. The research shows that,…

University Community Engages in Q&A on Fast Forward Syracuse

Thursday, September 25, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

University community members had an opportunity to hear more about Fast Forward Syracuse and engage with Chancellor Kent Syverud and 15 committee members in the first of the initiative’s Town Hall meetings Monday at Hendricks Chapel. Chancellor Syverud set the…

STEM

New Cooling System Heats up Physics Research

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to support ongoing work in quantum information science. Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, is the recipient of a $230,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award…