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Campus & Community

Wooden Stick Festival Celebrates Lacrosse and Haudenosaunee Culture

Thursday, September 27, 2018, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival, Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30, celebrates the late Randy Hall, a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Wolf Clan, with a box lacrosse tournament in his memory. Hall, a lifelong fan of lacrosse, died…

Arts & Culture

Genet Costume Collection Exhibition Re-Examines the Dirndl Skirt

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, By Erica Blust

“High on a Hill Is a Lonely Dirndl,” an overview exhibition of Tyrolean-styled dirndl skirts by such designers as Yves Saint Laurent, Victor Costa and Ralph Lauren, will be exhibited through Friday, Oct. 12, in the Sue & Leon Genet…

Arts & Culture

Singer, Trumpeter Bria Skonberg to Perform, Discuss Career as Part of Setnor Residency

Monday, September 24, 2018, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will host New York-based Canadian singer, trumpeter and songwriter Bria Skonberg for a three-day residency Sept. 26-28, presented as part of the Setnor…

Health & Society

Syracuse University Conducts First Systematic Review of Experimental Pain Research on Cannabis-Based Drugs

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have determined that cannabinoid drugs do not appear to reduce the intensity of experimental pain, but, instead, may make pain feel less unpleasant and more tolerable.

Media, Law & Policy

Nabatchi Named Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, By Jessica Smith

Tina Nabatchi, a leading scholar on citizen participation, collaborative governance and conflict resolution, and on challenges in public administration, has been named the inaugural Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public…

Campus & Community

Workshops Engage Faculty on Skills and Strategies for Inclusive Teaching

Tuesday, September 11, 2018, By Carol Boll

As students returned to campus this fall, more than 300 Syracuse University faculty engaged in learning exercises of their own as participants in workshops designed to enhance self-awareness, detect and respond to unconscious bias, and strengthen their skills for more…

Physics World

Lifetime Expectancy May be Longer Than What We Expected

Saturday, September 8, 2018, By Essence Britt

Steven Blusk, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in the Physics World story “Charmed baryon puzzles particle physicists by living longer.” Blusk and others have taken the time to remeasure the charmed baryon. The…

Campus & Community

University Lectures Launches 18th Season with Authors George Saunders and Margaret Atwood, Artist Robert Shetterly

Thursday, August 30, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

This fall, the University Lectures series welcomes distinguished authors George Saunders (“Lincoln in the Bardo,” “Tenth of December”) and Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Alias Grace”) and—in collaboration with the Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public Responsibility—accomplished portrait…

STEM

NSF Grant Will Allow Acuna to Study Optimization of Scientific Peer Review Process

Wednesday, August 29, 2018, By Diane Stirling

Deficiencies in the scientific community’s centralized peer review process can impact more than a researcher’s career. Faults in the process can ultimately affect the kinds of scientific discoveries that are made, the distribution of information about findings, the technology innovations…

Arts & Culture

SUArt Galleries Presents ‘Rodin: The Human Experience/Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections’

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is presenting “Rodin: The Human Experience/Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections,” on view beginning Aug. 16 and continuing through Nov. 18 in the Shaffer Art Building. Organized by Judith Sobol, curator of…