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Bond Receives CAREER Award to Investigate a Niche for Biomass

Friday, February 13, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Renewable, bio-based products may offer many benefits ranging from decreased greenhouse gas emissions to improved domestic energy security. However, despite growing interest in replacing fossil resources with renewable alternatives, biomass refining industries, particularly those producing biofuels, have struggled to compete with…

Arts & Culture

‘The Lubin Legacy: Celebrating 50 Years at the Joseph I. Lubin House’

Friday, February 13, 2015, By Scott McDowell

In 1965, the Syracuse University Board of Trustees met for the first time at Lubin House, 11 East 61st St., New York City. Joseph I. Lubin, a New York philanthropist had risen from an impoverished childhood in Brooklyn to become…

Campus & Community

Progress Continues on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education, Advocacy

Friday, February 13, 2015, By Shannon Andre

In January, the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Advocacy met with Chancellor Kent Syverud and Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz to share their findings, recommendations and emerging themes as outlined in…

Media, Law & Policy

National Wildlife Federation President and CEO to Speak at Maxwell

Thursday, February 12, 2015, By News Staff

Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation and a 2006 M.P.A. graduate of the Maxwell School, will deliver the next Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility on Monday, Feb. 23, at 5 p.m. in Maxwell…

Campus & Community

Diversity Law Day at Syracuse University College of Law

Thursday, February 12, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse University College of Law and the Law School Admission Council will be co-sponsoring Diversity Law Day on Thursday, Feb. 26. This program is part of the DiscoverLaw.org initiative targeting students from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the legal…

STEM

Physicist Jedidah Isler Named TED Fellow

Thursday, February 12, 2015, By Rob Enslin

Leave it to Jedidah Isler to make an astronomical impact. In December, the astrophysicist was named a TED Fellow for the Class of 2015. Next month, she travels to Vancouver to join 20 other fellows and the TED community at…

Progress Report: Student Concerns

Thursday, February 12, 2015, By News Staff

Amid the long-term strategic planning happening across campus, several members of Chancellor Syverud’s Executive Team continue to work with faculty and staff to take action on critical issues raised last semester by students. The Chancellor has directed his team to…

Campus & Community

Free Six-Week Tobacco Cessation Programs for Faculty and Staff

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, By News Staff

Free Tobacco Cessation Program. There is still time to register! The University is offering a free, six-week tobacco cessation program off campus for faculty and staff. Begins, Monday, March 2, and runs for six consecutive Mondays. 10-11a.m. This session is…

Arts & Culture

SUArt Galleries Presents Lecture on ‘Master Thieves’

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist,” a lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Stephen Kurkjian.  The lecture will be presented Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m….

Campus & Community

SOULscape Weekend Getaway to Help Students Find Meaning and Purpose

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, By Shannon Andre

A SOULscape Weekend Getaway, sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Hendricks Chapel, will take place Feb. 28 to March 1 at the Minnowbrook Conference Center  in Blue Mountain Lake. Based on the popular campus conversation series Soulful Sit-Downs,…