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Campus & Community

Physics Department’s Alison Patteson Named Cottrell Scholar

Thursday, February 9, 2023, By Diane Stirling

College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor Alison Patteson has been recognized with a 2023 Cottrell Scholar award, a prestigious national honor that ranks her among the country’s best faculty researchers and teachers from the fields of astronomy, chemistry and…

Campus & Community

Mellon Foundation Recognizes Syracuse Black/Arab Racial Justice Research Project

Monday, January 30, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Two faculty members of The College of Arts and Sciences are the recipients of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for research on race and racialization, social justice and community engagement. Associate Professors Carol Fadda and Dana Olwan’s project “Black-Arab…

Campus & Community

Grants Available for Scholarly Projects on Racial Wealth Gap

Wednesday, January 18, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Grant funding is available to Syracuse University Ph.D. (or equivalent) scholars who have compelling projects that examine the issue of the racial wealth gap in the United States. The awards are part of a new social justice initiative and one…

STEM

Researchers Reject 30-Year-Old Paradigm: Emergence of Forests Did Not Reduce CO2 in Atmosphere

Tuesday, January 17, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

It’s hard to imagine our planet without trees. From providing wildlife habitat to reducing erosion and absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, trees play an important role in maintaining a livable environment. But trees haven’t been around forever. Over…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Faculty Member Honored With Best of Design Award

Tuesday, January 17, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) recently announced the winners of its 10th annual Best of Design Awards, a unique project-based awards program that showcases great buildings, unbuilt proposals, interiors and installations. Iman Fayyad, assistant professor in the School of Architecture, won…

Campus & Community

Information Session Jan. 18 on MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Symposium Research Submissions

Wednesday, January 11, 2023, By Diane Stirling

A virtual information session will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18, to offer information and a forum for questions for researchers wanting to submit proposals for presentations at the inaugural MetLife Foundation-Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium. The information session will…

Arts & Culture

5 Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants

Wednesday, December 21, 2022, By Diane Stirling

Five Syracuse University faculty members have won highly competitive awards from the New York State Council on the Arts—a record in the number of awards in a single year for Syracuse University in its 20 years of participation with the…

Campus & Community

Hamid Ekbia, Ph.D., Appointed Director of Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, By News Staff

Hamid Ekbia, professor of informatics, cognitive science, data science and international studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has been appointed as University Professor at Syracuse University and will serve as the next director of its Autonomous Systems Policy Institute…

STEM

3 Faculty Members Attain Prestigious IEEE Fellow Recognition

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, By Diane Stirling

Three faculty members have been recognized as Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2023, a high professional honor conferred on less than 0.1% of the organization’s membership annually. Wenliang (Kevin) Du and Vir Phoha, both…

Campus & Community

SABR Award Leads to Major League Job for Sport Analytics Student

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Matt Michael

Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca is credited for saying that “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” In other words, we make our own luck. And that’s exactly what Falk College sport analytics major John Asel ’23 did this…