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Campus & Community

Students, Faculty and Staff Invited to Participate in Campus Framework Forum Thursday, June 15

Tuesday, June 13, 2017, By News Staff

The Syracuse University community is invited and encouraged to participate in a Campus Framework forum on Thursday, June 15, at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. During the forum, Pete Sala, vice president and chief facilities…

Media, Law & Policy

Students Wade through Political Discourse Inside DC Beltway

Friday, June 9, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

With constant tumult in the nation’s capital, political communication inside the Washington, D.C., beltway has become a relentless churn of messaging, whether by press conference, sound bite or tweet—President Donald Trump’s preferred method. How do you wade through all the…

STEM

Physics Student Named Kavli Graduate Fellow

Monday, June 5, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A student in the College of Arts and Sciences is the winner of a graduate fellowship to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Suraj Shankar, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics,…

Campus & Community

Vera House Recognizes Barry L. Wells with 2017 Sister Mary Vera Award

Friday, June 2, 2017, By Shannon Andre

Recognizing his long-standing advocacy and commitment to the work of Vera House, Barry L. Wells, special assistant to Chancellor Kent Syverud, will be presented the 2017 Sister Mary Vera Award at Vera House’s annual summer luncheon. The Sister Mary Vera…

Arts & Culture

SU Brass Ensemble to Perform at Gettysburg Brass Band Festival

Friday, June 2, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

The 35-member Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE) is one of 14 groups from six states invited to perform June 8-10 at the 2017 Gettysburg Brass Band Festival in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The SUBE Euphonium Ensemble has also been invited to give…

Health & Society

Professor Charles Driscoll on Impact of U.S. Pulling Out of Paris Accord

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Keith Kobland

The decision by the Trump administration to pull out of the Paris climate accord is being met with disappointment by one of Syracuse University’s leading authorities on climate change. University Professor of Environmental Systems and Distinguished Professor Charles Driscoll believes…

Campus & Community

‘Koaville’ Wins Popular Vote for On My Own Time Exhibition

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

In 1965, Johnny Yinger spent a summer in Hawaii and brought home a piece of Koa wood, a relatively rare tropical wood. He kept it in various basements over the decades, waiting for inspiration to strike. Then, thanks to an…

Campus & Community

Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability Program Awards Nearly $75,000 to Projects

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Rachel May

Syracuse University’s Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability (CALS) funding program has completed its second round of applications and awarded nearly $75,000 in funding to faculty and students. The call for proposals sought projects that address climate disruption and offer…

Arts & Culture

Musicologist Goes ‘Beyond Boundaries’ with New Book, Trans-Atlantic Research

Tuesday, May 30, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Amanda Eubanks Winkler knows a thing or two about pushing boundaries. Still basking in the success of her latest edited book, “Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England” (Indiana University Press, 2017), the musicologist is preparing for a…

Health & Society

Monmonier Explores Advances in Mapping under U.S. Patent System

Friday, May 26, 2017, By News Staff

Mark Monmonier’s newest book, “Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History,” examines how developments in the U.S. patent system in the 19th and early 20th centuries have shaped innovations of map use. Monmonier reveals that devices and…