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Deep Findings

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Rob Enslin

When Cathryn Newton helped discover the USS Monitor in 1973, she was dealing with not just the most famous shipwreck of the Civil War (and of all U.S. naval history), but a paleontological and archaeological find of “epoch” proportions. “Shipwrecks…

Campus & Community

Fast Forward Winners Give Voice to Inspired Ideas

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

They have an idea to make it better and the passion to make it work. Thirteen entrants—both individuals and teams—have been selected as winners in the Fast Forward competition, in which the University will fund student projects that demonstrate how…

Campus & Community

SU Benefits Package Expands Coverage for Hearing Aids

Monday, April 7, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Hearing loss knows no boundaries; it affects men and women, young and old, and people from all walks of life. In fact, more than 48 million adults, or 20 percent of the adult population in the United States, experience some…

Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…

Campus & Community

School Supply Drive to Support Global Youth Service Day

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By News Staff

The SU Chapter of Golden Key International Honour Society will be collecting school supplies for English as a Second Language (ESL) students attending Edward Smith K-8 School, Syracuse.  The items needed are listed below.  Collection bins will be placed in…

Getting to Know: Assistant Professor Barbara Stripling, President of the ALA

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The idea that access to libraries–and to the information, materials and guidance available therein is a right community members should be guaranteed–is a platform that has taken Barbara Stripling to all corners of the United States and around the world….

IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…

‘IMAGES? Precisely!’ Stages Grand Finale of Three-Year Run

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Nearly three years ago, Mark Linder launched “IMAGES? Precisely!” in his role as Chancellor’s Fellow at the Syracuse University Humanities Center. This three-year event series in the transdisciplinary humanities has featured numerous influential scholars and artists whose work contemplates the…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Announces Finalists in 2014 Mirror Awards Competition

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced the finalists in the 2014 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 4 in New York City. The Mirror…

Health & Society

Goode’s Book on Modern Historical Thought Reissued in Paperback

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Syracuse University Associate Professor of English Mike Goode challenges the conventional accounts of the development of modern historical thought in his book “Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890” (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was reissued as a paperback…