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Religion Faculty Earn Top Honors
Three religion professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have received major research fellowships. Vincent Lloyd, assistant professor of religion, has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research Fellowship. He will use it to study…
Student Team Testing Smart Grid Security Project
In an era when digital devices talk to one another to accomplish tasks, how will industries protect conversations between them and the information those exchanges transmit to maintain the security of their systems and networks? That is the central question…
Campus Master Plan Meetings To Be Held March 2
On Monday, March 2, the University community is invited to attend a Campus Master Plan event with members of the Campus Master Plan Advisory Group and Sasaki Associates to learn more about the campus analysis findings. This plan works in…
Humanities Center Continues Spring Symposia with Lecture on March 4
Gesa E. Kirsch, professor of English and director of the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences at Bentley University, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Power of Social Networks: Rhetorical Agency and Civic Activism among 19th-Century Women Physicians” on…
Huang Receives NSF Grant for Mobile Crowdsourcing System
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a continuing grant to School of Information Studies (iSchool) assistant professor and principal investigator Yun Huang to examine two questions related to public safety and mobile crowdsourcing. The two-pronged study, the first phase…
Maxwell, IVMF, VA Medical Center Join Forces for International Women’s Day
There are nearly 215,000 women currently serving in the United States military and more than 1.8 million women veterans. Hundreds of thousands of civilian women also serve in combat and post-combat areas as advisors, aid workers, development specialists and health…
MakerSpace Is Making a Difference
Members of the University community increasingly gather at MakerSpace to learn and create using do-it-yourself approaches to creating with technology.
SU Libraries Seeking Volunteers for Second Human Library Event
The Syracuse University Libraries are seeking volunteer “human books” for the second annual Human Library event on Wednesday, April 1, from 2-5 p.m. in Bird Library. The purpose of a human library is to promote tolerance, challenge assumptions and celebrate…
Wednesday Morning Discussion/Demonstrations Delve into Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR), once the stuff of science fiction, is now poised to move into the mainstream through consumer devices like the Oculus Rift (purchased by Facebook for $2 billion), the mobile phone-powered Samsung GearVR (in partnership with Oculus) and…
Syracuse University Monitoring Forecast for Extremely Cold Weather
It appears the worst of the recent cold spell isn’t over yet. A wind chill warning is in effect until Monday at 10 a.m. Of particular note, the possibility of wind chill factors as cold as 30 degrees below zero…