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Campus & Community

In Memoriam: Minnie Bruce Pratt

Wednesday, July 26, 2023, By Eileen Korey

In a welcome note on her website, Minnie Bruce Pratt invited visitors to make themselves at home. “I hope you enjoy all the connections here to art, politics, love and life,” she wrote. The retired Syracuse University professor built a…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture, SUNY ESF Faculty Awarded Funding for Research on Racial Wealth Gap

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

School of Architecture Associate Dean for Research Eliana Abu-Hamdi and Assistant Professor Iman Fayyad, along with Daniel Cronan, assistant professor of landscape architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), have recently been awarded a $100,000 grant…

Campus & Community

BioInspired Institute Awards 2 Cross-Institutional Project Grants

Tuesday, July 18, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University’s BioInspired Institute has awarded a new round of intramural grants to two interdisciplinary, cross-institutional research projects. One project looks at how polar fungi physically adapt to survive in extreme climate environments. Its researchers are working to determine how the…

Health & Society

New Course Introduces Students to Emerging Field of Sport Social Work  

Friday, July 14, 2023, By Matt Michael

The idea of merging social work principles and practices with the sports industry is an emerging field, and Syracuse University is at the forefront with a new undergraduate course scheduled to start this fall in the School of Social Work…

Campus & Community

Breedlove Readers Display Works at Community ‘ArtStory’ Event

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By Diane Stirling

The artwork of local teens was on display during a recent event hosted by professors Courtney Mauldin and Rochele Royster at Syracuse University’s South Side Communications Center. Participants in the event, “ArtStory: Love & Language,” were members of the Breedlove…

STEM

Registration Open for National Science Foundation I-Corps Innovation Course

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University will host a free, virtual U.S. National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) regional course this fall. The program is for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage startup founders who are interested in exploring the market potential of their…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School Assistant Professor Named 2023-25 Lender Center Faculty Fellow

Monday, July 10, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Nausheen Husain, whose work examines media coverage of Muslim people and communities and the impact of that coverage, has been selected as the 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. Husain is an assistant professor of magazine, news and…

Campus & Community

Azadeh Tajdar Joins Maxwell as Inaugural Cramer Family Professor of Practice in Community Impact

Friday, July 7, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

After studying law at the University of Amsterdam, Azadeh Tajdar went to work in public policy, hoping to be part of the inner workings of the European Union (EU) at an exciting time: A year before she graduated, the EU…

STEM

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Yuzhe Tang Receives Grant to Protect Ethereum Security

Friday, June 23, 2023, By Kwami Maranga

Yuzhe Tang, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and his research team have been awarded a grant by the Ethereum Foundation for research to advance the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem. This…

Campus & Community

Travis Mason ’06 Serves as Chief Policy Officer for Autonomous Aviation Systems Developer

Friday, June 23, 2023, By News Staff

As the first-ever chief policy officer for Merlin Labs, a developer of autonomous aviation systems, Maxwell School alumnus Travis Mason ’06 B.A. (PSc) leads a team of engineers and regulatory experts charged with ensuring the company’s new technologies meet the…