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Health & Society

Power and Responsibility—Ethics In Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert Professor Dana Radcliffe says it is also a fitting principle…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Community Invited to Help Make Holiday Season Brighter for Local Families

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By News Staff

The employee Holiday Sharing Program is again partnering with PEACE Inc.’s Adopt-a-Family Program and the Salvation Army’s Christmas Bureau to make the season brighter for local families. University departments and groups are invited to register now to participate in the…

STEM

Falk Professor Receives Grant to Investigate Anaerobic Digestion

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

Despite a significant number of animals on smaller dairy farms in New York State and the northeastern United States, the vast majority of research on the benefits of anaerobic digester (AD) technologies only relates to larger livestock farms. That is…

STEM

Physicists at Forefront of Multinational Experiment

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continue to make inroads on the world stage. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) group in the Department of Physics recently hosted the 85th Large Hardon Collider beauty (LHCb) Week in Lake Placid,…

Arts & Culture

George Saunders Wins Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

Saunders’ win was announced by Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, at a dinner Tuesday evening at London’s Guildhall. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall presented a trophy to Saunders.

NPR

Cosmic Collision Leads to New Breakthroughs

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics  talks to NPR about the groundbreaking discovery of the collision of two neutron stars, revealing that these strange smash-ups are the source of heavy elements such as gold and platinum….

Arts & Culture

Hiroshima Survivor to Share Her Experience during University Events

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

School of Architecture Associate Professor Yutaka Sho first met Keiko Ogura in the summer of 2016 in Japan during the SU Abroad travel seminar Design Through a Tourist’s Eye. The seminar focused in part on the way communities remember and…

STEM

Syracuse Architecture, iSchool Faculty Receive NSF Grant for Joint Research on Smart Energy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Elaine Wackerow

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) grant of $99,965 to three Syracuse University faculty/Center of Excellence fellows: iSchool professor Jason Dedrick, principal investigator, and Syracuse Architecture assistant professors Elizabeth Krietemeyer and Tarek Rakha, co-investigators. They…

STEM

Syracuse Physicists Usher in a New Golden Age of Astronomy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University physicists are among a global team of scientists to make a revolutionary discovery confirming the origins of gold and other heavy metals whose presence in the universe has been a long-standing mystery.

Campus & Community

Angela Rye Named Keynote Speaker for 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Wednesday, October 11, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Angela Rye, an acclaimed political commentator for both CNN and NPR, will be the keynote speaker for the 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Syracuse University on Jan. 28, 2018. The yearly MLK Celebration at the Carrier Dome…