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Four Professors Receive Prestigious CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation

Friday, January 31, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Four professors in The College of Arts and Sciences have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards—the highest honor given by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of early-career development activities of teacher-scholars. The recipients are Arindam “Ari” Chakraborty…

Campus & Community

Undergraduate Conference on Religion and Culture: Call for Papers

Tuesday, January 28, 2014, By News Staff

The Religion Graduate Organization at Syracuse University is hosting the first annual “Undergraduate Conference on Religion and Culture”!  Undergraduates inspired by the theme of Religion and Culture are invited to apply. Travel stipends available. We welcome undergraduate student term papers,…

STEM

Faculty Book Examines Digital Communication Technologies in Presidential Campaigns

Monday, January 27, 2014, By Diane Stirling

Heavy use of the Internet and digital communications technologies in recent American presidential campaigns may make it seem that the Internet Age has had a democratizing effect on those efforts. That notion is disputed by School of Information Studies Associate…

Campus & Community

Student Surveys Move to Digital Age

Monday, December 2, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Somewhere in between the beginning of December and taking her final exam and leaving for home, Tamara Rasamny ’16 will complete one more task. “I do feel it’s important to do,” says Rasamny, an international relations major in Syracuse University’s…

Campus & Community

Libraries Offer New Digital Scanner for Microfilm, Fiche

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A new microfilm/fiche scanner is now available for public use on the third floor of Bird Library. Features of the Indus 4601-SL include scan to file, scan to print, email, OCR and automated multipage scan. The scanning station is connected to…

Arts & Culture

University Honored with Prestigious Civic Engagement Award

Monday, October 7, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University is among just five colleges and universities in the nation, chosen from more than 100 nominations, to share in the 2013 Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards presented by The Washington Center and the New York Life Foundation.

Arts & Culture

Symposium Explores Use of Digital Games by Human Rights Activists

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By News Staff

The Digital Witness Symposium invites cutting-edge mediamakers, programmers and scholars to discuss how the changing digital ecology is opening up new opportunities for human rights media. This year’s symposium explores how human rights activism is increasingly turning to digital games and interactive media as a strategy for engaging new audiences.

STEM

SU Physicist Earns Prestigious Simons Fellowship

Friday, May 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

M. Cristina Marchetti is using award to study active matter M. Cristina Marchetti, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2013 Simons Fellow. She will use the prestigious…

Library Awarded $280,000 NEH Grant for Phase Two of Marcel Breuer Digital Project

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Syracuse University Library a $280,000 grant for phase two of a project that created a digital scholarly edition of the works of Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. The new project, titled…

Foremost Expert on Religion, Morality to Present Lecture April 16

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Robert Merrihew Adams of UNC-Chapel Hill is defender of theistic morality The Syracuse University Humanities Center continues its spring symposium series with a lecture by one of the world’s leading authorities on morality, religion and metaphysics. Robert Merrihew Adams, Distinguished…