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Arts & Culture

Book Memorializes Symposium in Tribute to Late, Great African Writer Chinua Achebe

Monday, August 7, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

In 2014, the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences held a daylong conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel “Arrow of God.” The symposium featured some of the…

STEM

Alumnus Launches DataCuse, Providing Public Access to City Data

Thursday, August 3, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Recently, the City of Syracuse announced the launch of a public data portal, DataCuse, that provides open access to batches of city data. The new tool is part of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s open data policy, to make more data about city…

Business & Economy

Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…

STEM

High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn’t just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school—she was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll’s environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…

STEM

Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Rob Enslin

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”

Health & Society

A Decade of PRIDE

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Amy Manley

Celebrating its 10th year, the highly competitive Program PRIDE (Psychology Research Initiative for Diversity Enhancement) program brings together Syracuse University undergraduates from underrepresented groups and invites them to develop an original independent psychology summer research project over the course of…

Veterans

IVMF Awarded Nearly a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Help Advance Government Support of Veterans and Families

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Stephanie Salanger

In separate grants, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) and IBM Center for the Business of Government awarded the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) research and evaluation division over $235,000 to study strategies and approaches to reinvent traditional federal…

Campus & Community

Emergency Response Crews, Newhouse School to Conduct Training Exercise Aug. 1

Thursday, July 27, 2017, By News Staff

The Division of Campus Safety and Emergency Services, along with the Newhouse School, will conduct a drill on Tuesday, Aug. 1, from 8 a.m. until noon. The exercise will take place in Lyons Hall. The Department of Public Safety and…

Arts & Culture

Spanish Professor Explores Contemporary Latin American Performances

Thursday, July 27, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

While on research leave in South America, Gail Bulman, associate professor of Spanish in the College of Arts and Sciences, delved deeply into the performances of Latin American theater, its history, artists and live presentations. Her latest research explores how…

Campus & Community

Message from Chancellor Kent Syverud

Wednesday, July 26, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Today, the federal government announced that the Department of Defense will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military. This decision is inconsistent with Syracuse University’s values of access, and of…