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Shumer Wins Campuswide InVenture Prize

Thursday, February 27, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Matthew Shumer ’22, founder of Visos, the first virtual reality (VR) headset specifically designed for health care applications, has won Syracuse University’s InVenture Prize campus qualifier competition, sponsored by the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries. He received…

Campus & Community

Statement from Sarah Scalese, SAVP for Communications, Regarding Recent Events

Wednesday, February 26, 2020, By News Staff

To be clear: A meeting for 4 p.m. today was never agreed to, scheduled or confirmed. We do, however, hope to continue dialogue with our students, which is why we participated in a two-and-a-half-hour meeting last night with the student…

Campus & Community

Scott Reynolds ‘Can’t Stand to See Kids Walk through Snow to Get on a Bus’

Wednesday, February 26, 2020, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Very early on winter mornings, Scott Reynolds navigates a payloader along the streets and through parking lots on the Syracuse University campus. Following a snowfall, Reynolds and his 60 colleagues on the Facilities Services grounds team work to clear the…

Campus & Community

Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series Addresses ‘Faith and Mental Health’ on March 3

Wednesday, February 26, 2020, By Delaney Van Wey

The University’s ongoing Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, “Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the ‘Hidden’ Things that Divide Us,” continues on Tuesday, March 3, with the second dialogue of the Spring 2020 semester. The dialogue will include an…

STEM

Two College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Members Earn NSF CAREER Awards

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Denver Whittington, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, and Weiwei Zheng, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, are principal investigators for separate five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a…

STEM

Syracuse University and UC Berkeley Researchers Team Up to Develop 3D Human Heart Model Showing How Cardiac Cells Fail to Adapt to a Pathological Mechanical Environment

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

To better understand heart diseases, doctors and scientists are constantly trying to understand how cardiac tissue in the human heart is affected by its changing environment. Specifically, researchers have wanted to better understand how cardiac cells adjust themselves depending on…

STEM

M. Lisa Manning Named William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

M. Lisa Manning, professor of physics and founding director of BioInspired Syracuse: Institute for Material and Living Systems, has been named the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics. This highly selective professorship was established in 1971 by a grant from…

Media, Law & Policy

How to Decipher the News to Find the Facts

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

Nine months to go till the November presidential election. How do you wade through the political rhetoric and potential biases and falsehoods from various information outlets to get to the real facts? Longtime journalist and Newhouse School adjunct professor Tom…

Campus & Community

Five Ways to Bust Through a Late-Winter Workout Slump

Monday, February 24, 2020, By Jen Plummer

We’re in that time of year when the shine of (and often, commitment to) New Year’s resolutions has dulled, but the renewed energy that spring weather brings is still, optimistically, a few weeks away. It can be tough to remain…

Campus & Community

Be Involved with Take Back the Night 2020

Monday, February 24, 2020, By News Staff

Each year, Syracuse University recognizes and participates in Take Back the Night (TBTN), a global event dedicated to raising awareness about sexual, relationship and domestic violence, and other forms of interpersonal violence. This year’s TBTN rally and march will be…

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