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Campus & Community

Last of the Summer Snaps

Wednesday, August 6, 2014, By News Staff

Our students, faculty and staff have taken some wonderful, exciting and just plain fun images of their summertime. Here is the last in the series of “SU Summer Snaps.”

Arts & Culture

Poet Will Schutt to Appear Oct. 8 in Raymond Carver Series

Sunday, August 3, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

The poet Will Schutt will participate in Syracuse University’s Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series with a reading Wednesday, Oct. 8, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session is from 3:45-4:30 p.m., followed by the reading. The event is free and…

STEM

iSchool Senior Develops App to Alert Israelis of Rocket Strikes

Monday, July 28, 2014, By J.D. Ross

Last year, Benjamin Honig, a senior at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), won a scholarship award from Apple that provided him with admission to the company’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. While attending the WWDC in…

STEM

SU Mathematician Invited to Speak at ‘MathFest’ in Oregon

Tuesday, July 22, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has been invited to speak at the country’s largest annual summertime gathering of mathematicians, taking place next month in Portland, Ore. Jack Graver, professor of mathematics, will address attendees at the…

Arts & Culture

Art History Alumna to Lead Florence Graduate Program in Renaissance Art

Tuesday, July 22, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

In 1993, Sally Cornelison earned a master’s degree in art history from the College of Arts and Sciences. Her mentor at the time was Gary Radke, the longtime director of the Florence Graduate Program in Renaissance Art, who later this…

Health & Society

Rosa Leon ’14 Awarded National Institute of Health Research Supplement

Monday, July 21, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Rosa Leon ’14, who graduated this past May with a dual major in biology and neuroscience, received a diversity supplement to Sandra and James Hewett’s National Institute of Health grant to support her research. This supplement will allow Leon to…

STEM

Going Direct: Communication in a Device-to-Device Network

Monday, July 21, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

Two Ph.D students, Chenfei Gao and Xiang Sheng, and their advisor Professor Jian Tang, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, received a best paper award in the 2014 IEEE…

STEM

Chemist to Use NSF Grant to Bolster Study of Materials Chemistry, Nanoscience

Monday, July 21, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A chemist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to study the synthesis of stainless nanoparticles. Mathew M. Maye, associate professor of chemistry, has been awarded a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation…

STEM

University Receives Dual Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Education Designations

Thursday, July 17, 2014, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University is among an elite group of academic institutions designated by federal agencies for research and education in information assurance and cyber security. Affirmation of its status as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense…

Campus & Community

Top Runners Land University in First Place

Wednesday, July 2, 2014, By Keith Kobland

The honors continue to roll in for the Syracuse University team participating in this year’s J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge. We already knew the race, which took place on June 17, attracted a record number of runners and walkers, including 169…