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One Goldwater Scholar, Three Honorable Mentions Named
Four Syracuse University nominees for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship were recently recognized. Jessica Toothaker, a junior majoring in biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, was named as a 2016 Goldwater Scholar. Three students were recognized with Goldwater Honorable…
2016 RecycleMania Collegiate Recycling Competition Final Ranking
Syracuse University ranked first in the Gorilla Prize, second in the Per Capita Classic and third in Grand Champion out of all competing schools located in New York State in its three competition categories for RecycleMania, the eight-week national recycling…
Landscape of Urban Education Series Presents Lecture in Memory of Beloved SOE Professor
The School of Education will welcome Michelle Fine, distinguished professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center to give a public lecture on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. in Watson Hall Theater. Her presentation, titled “Prec(ar)ious…
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction
LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes
Baptist Campus Ministry Team Finds Hope, Joy in Work with Earthquake Survivors
In the terraced landscape of Nepal, a team from the Baptist Campus Ministry worked alongside residents disassembling crumbled homes and marking plots of homes that will be rebuilt following last year’s crippling earthquake.
Scholar Spotlight: Gabriel Smolnycki ’17
When Gabriel Smolnycki graduates, his diploma will list his major as mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, but that won’t capture the full breadth of his Syracuse education. In addition to mechanical, he’s taking electrical engineering…
Engineering on Trial
Last fall, students in College of Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Practice Svetoslava Todorova’s Introduction to Environmental Engineering class had their day in court. As an exercise in learning about groundwater and contaminant transport in the subsurface, students analyzed…
LHCb’s Pentaquark Discovery Named Top 10 Breakthrough of 2015
A discovery by scientists in the College of Arts and Sciences has been named one of the Top 10 Breakthroughs of the year by Physics World magazine. The Top 10 is chosen by a panel of Physics World editors and…
Indian Classical Stars Perform Oct. 10 in Setnor Auditorium
Two of today’s leading exponents of Indian classical music, sarodist Arnab Chakrabarty and tablist Shahbaz Hussain, will perform on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College. The concert is free and open to the public;…
Stromer-Galley’s Bias Retraining Game Wins ‘Serious Play’ Honors
Human decision-making is prone to cognitive biases, the shortcuts people take because their brains are wired to make decisions quickly with limited information. However, a game developed by a research team that includes a School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty…