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Campus & Community

Ten Tons of Love: Call for Donations

Monday, April 29, 2019, By Gabrielle Lake

The annual Ten Tons of Love collection drive will begin this Friday, May 3, and continue until Monday, May 13. Once donated, these items support members of the campus and local communities. To support efforts of addressing hunger and homelessness,…

Campus & Community

University Announces 2019-20 Remembrance Scholars

Monday, April 29, 2019, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2019-20 Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing…

Arts & Culture

Conversations About Beauty: New Book by Dean’s Professor Harvey Teres Probes ‘Unseen Power of Aesthetic Experience’

Sunday, April 28, 2019, By Rob Enslin

People’s encounters with beauty is the subject of a new book by Harvey Teres, Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). “Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: Somebody Loves Us All” (Common Ground…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Celebrates Seven Foundations Scholars

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By News Staff

Foundations is a workshop series that introduces Syracuse University students to essential life-skills. The Foundations Scholarship program started in fall 2017 as a cross-campus collaboration of schools/colleges and departments, including the Office of Professional and Career Development, the Office of Financial Literacy and…

STEM

College of Engineering and Computer Science Hosts Its First Silicon Valley Immersion Trip

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

This spring, the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) launched its first-ever Silicon Valley Immersion Trip. Set during Spring Break, the pilot program exposed 10 undergraduates to a variety of notable Silicon Valley tech companies with connections to Syracuse…

Arts & Culture

Fred Wellner: Making Magic from Metal

Monday, April 22, 2019, By Kevin Morrow

Fred Wellner ’17 is a native of Baldwinsville and a senior designer with Syracuse University Press. He is also a talented metalwork artist and a regular participant in the University’s On My Own Time (OMOT) exhibition. Through the years, OMOT…

STEM

Swimming in a Sea of Neutrinos: Ph.D. Candidate Avinay Bhat Discusses His Research Into the Universe’s Smallest, Most Elusive Particles

Thursday, April 11, 2019, By Rob Enslin

Ph.D. candidate Avinay Bhat studies neutrinos—tiny, elusive particles that hold clues about the origin of the Universe. As a member of the High-Energy Physics (HEP) research group, he also builds components for a major experiment at Fermilab, a U.S. Department…

Campus & Community

Ariel Chu Named a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow

Thursday, April 11, 2019, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Graduate student Ariel Chu is the recipient of a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to support her studies in the graduate program in creative writing in the College of Arts and Sciences. Chu joins 29 other…

Media, Law & Policy

Innovation Law Center Students Help Allied Microbiota Commercialize a Clean Tech Breakthrough

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, By Martin Walls

One of the many impressive tasks that Innovation Law Center (ILC) research associates perform when writing proprietary reports for clients of the New York State Science and Technology Law Center (NYSSTLC) is getting up to speed very quickly with novel…

Media Tip Sheets

Black Hole Image Is ‘Real-Life Counterpart’ To What Science Fiction Movies Have Imagined

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Today astronomers announced they have successfully captured the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow. Duncan Brown is the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Brown was…