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Arts & Culture

Faculty, Staff Invited to Participate in This Year’s ‘On My Own Time’ Celebration

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, By News Staff

The University is pleased to announce its participation in “On My Own Time”—a celebration of local visual arts that highlights the often-unsung artists who create art on their own time. This year is the 52nd anniversary of this program, organized…

Arts & Culture

Designing the Collaborative Classroom of the Future

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, By John Boccacino

On the fourth floor of Bird Library sits what Associate Professor of Industrial and Interaction Design Ralf Schneider hopes will be the interactive classroom of the future. Walking by the Digital Scholarship Space (DSS), located in Room 458, this particular…

Campus & Community

Campus Dining Seeks Student Feedback in Survey, Open Until April 15

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, By Jennifer DeMarchi

Syracuse University Campus Dining is asking students to complete a benchmarking survey administered by the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS). The survey will run through Tuesday, April 15, This is the first time Syracuse University Campus…

STEM

Improving Quality of Life for Post-Stroke Patients

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, By News Staff

A painless and non-invasive pulse of electrical stimulation to specific brain areas can ease some symptoms of post-stroke patients, though how it works remains a physiological mystery. A pilot study of a post-stroke population by researchers from the Department of…

Health & Society

Protecting Your Health in a Polarized World: Expert Advice on Political Stress

Thursday, March 27, 2025, By Daryl Lovell

Feeling overwhelmed by politics? You’re not imagining it. The stress is real, and it can take a toll on your health. According to national surveys conducted by the American Psychological Association, close to half of U.S. adults say politics are…

Health & Society

A&S Researchers Explore the Impact of Climate Warming and Population Growth on America’s Rivers

Thursday, March 27, 2025, By News Staff

The chemistry of U.S. rivers is changing—and will change further in complex ways in different regions of the country. Scientists are exploring ways to predict future changes in watershed chemistry, which could improve managing them for climate change and community…

STEM

A&S Chemist Develops Ultrasensitive Molecular Force Sensors

Thursday, March 27, 2025, By News Staff

Professor Xiaoran Hu in the College of Arts and Sciences has developed molecules that undergo mechanochemical transformations, which could be used to report nanoscale stress in plastics and help scientists study mechanobiology processes. Plastic components are commonly used in infrastructure…

Health & Society

‘Never Take No for an Answer’: Phyllis E. Greenberger ’64 Transformed the Landscape of Women’s Health Research

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, By Dan Bernardi

When Phyllis E. Greenberger ’64 walked the campus of Syracuse University as a student, she could never have imagined that nearly three decades later, she would be in the Oval Office, advocating for women’s health with United States President Bill…

Syracuse University Impact

Striving to Improve the Efficacy of Obesity, Diabetes Treatments (Podcast)

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, By John Boccacino

The cutting-edge weight loss and diabetes research developed by medicinal chemist Robert Doyle has offered significant and consistent weight loss and glucose control to its recipients through peptide-based treatments. Doyle and his fellow collaborators reported that two new peptide compounds­­—GEP44…

Campus & Community

Bob Mankoff ’66 to Deliver Alumni Keynote at 2025 A&S | Maxwell Convocation

Tuesday, March 25, 2025, By Sean Grogan

Bob Mankoff ’66, who melded academic interests in psychology and philosophy with comedy and satire to become one of the nation’s most influential cartoonists as cartoon editor of The New Yorker for 20 years, will deliver the alumni keynote address…