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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…

Safer People, Safer Spaces Deepens Sense of Allyship

Monday, September 22, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Creating a more caring community starts with understanding. At the LGBT Resource Center, staff members are helping members of the University community on a path to greater understanding of what it means to be an ally during its sessions on Safer People, Safer Spaces.

STEM

Mueller’s Border Gateway Protocol Internet Research Funded by NSF

Friday, September 19, 2014, By Diane Stirling

Research on vulnerabilities in the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol in a study planned by School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Milton Mueller and postdoctoral researcher Brenden Kuerbis has received a National Science Foundation-funded award. The $338,664 grant is supporting the…

Style Lottery Makes Fashion Sense

Tuesday, September 16, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Timi Komonibo G’15 has been organizing clothing swaps for several years—events in which participants bring gently used garments to trade. It’s a fun, social experience, but the value in the Style Lottery comes in many layers for Komonibo.

TED Talk Sensation and Thought Leader to Hold Dialogue with Students

Monday, September 15, 2014, By Katelyn Cowen

Jill Bolte Taylor, a world-renowned neuron-anatomist and New York Times bestselling author, will be joining Soulful Sit-Downs, the student-run discussion series about life’s big questions, via Skype on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. Sean Martinelli ’15, a Newhouse broadcast…

Health & Society

Psychologist to Study Smoking, Painkiller Misuse Among Older Adults with HIV, Chronic Pain

Monday, September 15, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Joseph Ditre, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is readying a significant study that may help older adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and chronic pain quit tobacco smoking and reduce their misuse of prescription…