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Over the Summer Syracuse University Makes Substantial Investments in Accessibility Improvements, Classroom Enhancements
One of the best places to capture a Syracuse University memory is at the flagship gateway sign below the Hall of Languages and Place of Remembrance. Students, family and friends often stop to snap photos in front of the iconic…
Trial Lawyer for “Making a Murderer” Defendant to Speak at Maxwell School
The Maxwell School’s State of Democracy Lecture Series welcomes Dean Strang for a discussion on “Humility in Criminal Justice: What it Would Invite Us to Reconsider,” on Friday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m. at Hendricks Chapel. The event is free…
A Cautionary Tale about One Alumna’s Battle with Depression, Poor Body Image
When Lilly Thomann ’15, G’16 was an undergraduate at Syracuse University, she seemed to have it all: grades, talent, an appealing presence, popularity. “On the outside, I had it together,” she says. Indeed, Thomann, who hails from affluent West Caldwell,…
Syracuse, Cal State Fullerton Awarded Grant to Enhance Diversity in Astrophysics
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences are sharing a grant award with their colleagues at California State University, Fullerton, (CSUF) to recruit and expand the number of underrepresented students in gravitational-wave astronomy. Syracuse University professors Duncan Brown and…
Sociology Department Presenting at ASA Conference in Seattle
More than a dozen professors, Ph.D. students and researchers in the Department of Sociology are participating in the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Seattle Aug. 20-23. They join approximately 4,000 other sociologists for four days…
Researchers Awarded Grant to Develop, Implement Strategies for New Antibiotics
Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded a major grant to develop and implement strategies for the discovery of new antibiotics. Anthony Garza and Yan-Yeung Luk, associate professors of biology and chemistry, respectively, are recipients of…
Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Study Collective Behavior of Active Matter
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to support her ongoing study of active matter—collections of self-driven entities that take energy from the environment to produce coordinated motion. Syracuse’s newest Distinguished Professor,…
Burdick Leads Study on Social Housing Projects in Brazil
The National Science Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom have awarded $597,000 to a project led by Professor John Burdick (anthropology) to observe differently organized social housing projects in downtown Rio de Janeiro, to…
Earth Sciences Chair Pursues Sideline as Guitarist
Donald Siegel, professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is by any measure a successful scientist. He is the Jessie Page Heroy Professor and a Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is chair…
Newhouse Alumna Star Zhou Leads Coke’s Olympics Ad Campaign in China
Just six years after graduating from the Newhouse School’s undergraduate program in advertising, Yishu “Star” Zhou ’10 is leading Coca-Cola’s Olympics advertising campaign in her native China. The campaign, which launched in May, was featured in AdvertisingAge and was chosen…