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Media, Law & Policy

Making the Unthinkable Understandable: New Course Trains Students to Understand and Respond to Atrocities

Wednesday, December 20, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Uncovering and communicating the truths about human conflict, human suffering and human rights violations is a complicated but vitally important task that often falls to those who write the “first rough draft of history”—that is, journalists operating on the front…

STEM

Physicist Marchetti Named to Commission on Statistical Physics

Tuesday, December 19, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Distinguished Professor M. Cristina Marchetti has been elected to the Commission on Statistical Physics as part of a select group of international scientists. The Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics…

Campus & Community

Pan Am 103 Remembrance Service to be Held Dec. 21

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The dean and chaplains of Hendricks Chapel will conduct a remembrance service on Thursday, Dec. 21, at 2:03 p.m. in the chapel’s Noble Room to honor the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on…

Campus & Community

Students Head to Puerto Rico to Aid in Hurricane Recovery Efforts

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

During this holiday season, 23 Syracuse University students and two advisors are headed to Puerto Rico to help in the recovery from the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which struck the island this past fall. The group will…

Media, Law & Policy

Innovation Orange: Associate Professor Makana Chock

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Chock studies the way people respond within in the virtual reality environment. What makes a person turn left rather than right, or choose to interact with one object over another?

Campus & Community

Immaculate Conception Masses

Thursday, December 7, 2017, By News Staff

There will be two masses held for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation. For the vigil on Thursday, Dec. 7, the Mass will take place at the Catholic Center, 110 Walnut Place, at 7 p.m….

Health & Society

Registration Open for Stress Management for the Holidays Webinar for Faculty and Staff

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, By News Staff

No matter what holiday you celebrate, the season in general can be a time of added stress.  Things like overspending, multiple obligations and managing family expectations can somehow make a joyful time feel just the opposite. Join us for this…

Campus & Community

Drones Is Topic at Thursday Morning Roundtable Dec. 7

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Eileen Jevis

“Drones: How Will They Impact Central New York?” will be the topic when Major General Mark “Hoot” Gibson, USAF (Ret.), CEO of NUAIR Alliance, and Craig Marcinkowski, director, Strategy & Business Development at Gryphon Sensors, speak at Thursday Morning Roundtable on…

STEM

Syracuse Bioengineering Alum Invents No. 1 Mouthpiece For Snoring

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

Anyone who has ever tried to sleep near a person who snores knows how maddening it can be. However, that frustration is nothing compared to the health consequences the snorer faces. Snoring disturbs sleep and can eventually develop into sleep…

Media, Law & Policy

Expert Commentary: Systematic Doping Not Seen Since East Germany of the 70s and 80s

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Attorney John Wolohan, a professor of Sports Law in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, is available to speak to the issues surrounding Russia being banned from the 2018 winter Olympics in South Korea. Wolohan , who…