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STEM

Physicists Awarded $1.1 Million Grant

Wednesday, June 8, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Members of the High Energy Theory Group in the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support their work in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. Most…

STEM

The Salt City’s Technician—Gino Duca ’96, G ’09

Wednesday, June 8, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

In addition to full-time faculty members, students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science learn from adjunct faculty, many of whom are full-time, practicing engineers. One such professor is Gino Duca ’96, G’09, the president and co-founder of Salt…

STEM

Biologists Point to Climate Change Impacting Ecosystems

Tuesday, May 24, 2016, By Amy Manley

A team of biologists in the College of Art and Sciences is taking a long look at how climate change may shift the way the green grasses grow. Jason Fridley, associate professor of biology and co-founder of the Climate Change…

Campus & Community

Honors Students Awarded Crown/Wise Funding for Capstone Projects

Friday, May 20, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

From determining the toxicity of certain chemicals in Onondaga Lake to the architecture of learning environments to a film about cross-cultural adoption, students in the Renée Crown Honors Program are going deep into their fields for their capstone projects and…

STEM

Syracuse Physicists Help Restart Large Hadron Collider

Friday, May 20, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences are participating in the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator. The High-Energy Experimental Physics Group, led by Distinguished Professor Sheldon Stone, has been splitting…

Arts & Culture

Michael S. Tick Named Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts

Tuesday, May 17, 2016, By News Staff

With extensive experience in the performing arts, arts administration, teaching, fundraising and academic leadership, Michael S. Tick has been named the new dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

STEM

iSchool Students Select Renee Hill, Jeff Rubin for Professor of the Year Honors

Monday, May 16, 2016, By Diane Stirling

It’s often many years after graduating before college students recognize the impact their favorite professors have had in their lives. At the School of Information Studies (iSchool), however, graduates each year use convocation to honor the teachers who have been…

Campus & Community

WellsLink Program Receives National Recognition for Retention Efforts

Thursday, May 12, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

During her first year on campus, Alexis Peña ’16 got a disappointing grade on a math test. She texted her Wellslink academic consultant, Jessica Santana ’11, G’13, to tell her the news. “That same day she picked me up and…

Media, Law & Policy

Pellow Named Faculty Advisor of the Year by Arts and Sciences, Maxwell

Wednesday, May 11, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

Deborah Pellow, professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Anthropology, has been named Faculty Advisor of the Year for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “Dr. Pellow is a fierce…

Media, Law & Policy

Bill Brings CCJI One Step Closer to Having Emmett Till Act Extended

Thursday, April 28, 2016, By Scott McDowell

This week both houses of the U.S. Congress introduced a bill to reauthorize the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act, which expires in 2017, in a bipartisan effort to continue the work begun by the Department of Justice (DOJ)…