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Psychologist to Study Smoking, Painkiller Misuse Among Older Adults with HIV, Chronic Pain
Joseph Ditre, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is readying a significant study that may help older adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and chronic pain quit tobacco smoking and reduce their misuse of prescription…
Newhouse Professor Leads Team Developing Website to Track Ebola in Liberia
Ken Harper, associate professor and director of the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement, is working as the U.S. director of a project aimed at better tracking and mapping cases of Ebola in Liberia.
Communication Sciences and Disorders’ Beth Prieve Awarded $1.4 Million Grant
The most common birth defect among newborn babies is hearing loss. In fact, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, more than 12,000 babies are born each year with some degree of hearing loss. But Beth Prieve, professor of communication sciences…
University Launches Commemoration of 25th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Nearly 25 years later, approximately 4,000 miles away, Syracuse University is commemorating this historic occasion with a three-month-long series of events.
Lineup Announced for Fall 2014 Carver Reading Series
The Creative Writing Program will once again present six writers in its Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series. Named for the great short story writer and poet who taught at Syracuse in the 1980s and died in 1988, the Raymond…
Biologist Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant
James Hewett, an associate professor of biology and neuroscientist, was recently awarded a $440,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hewett will use this…
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics to host ‘Japan Today’ Symposium
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (LLL) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences will welcome scholars from Cornell University, Columbia University and Hamilton College for “Japan Today,” an interdisciplinary symposium that will examine Japanese literature, film, history…
Lineup for 2014 ‘Re-Sounding History Concert and Lecture-Demonstration Series’ Announced
Deborah Justice, the Carole and Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Music Histories, in collaboration with a working group that includes faculty from Colgate University and Hamilton College, has announced…
CFAC Executive Director Elected to Association of African American Museums
Kheli Willetts ’92, G’94, G’02, executive director of the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) and professor of practice of African American Studies (AAS) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, is one of three scholars elected to the Association…
Physicist John Laiho Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
John “Jack” Laiho recently completed his first year as a member of the Syracuse University faculty, and what better way to celebrate than by receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support his cutting-edge research. Laiho, who earned a…