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Business & Economy

NSF Funds OrangeGrid Improvements

Tuesday, October 1, 2013, By Christopher C. Finkle

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $498,000 to enhance SU’s OrangeGrid by upgrading the campus’s data network infrastructure to facilitate high throughput research computing. OrangeGrid (formerly known as the HTC campus grid) uses idle desktop computers in…

Campus & Community

Internet Expert Viktor Mayer-Schonberger to Speak

Monday, September 30, 2013, By News Staff

In early June, British newspaper The Guardian reported that the U.S. National Security Agency had been collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans under a secret court order. The source was Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton,…

Arts & Culture

LGBT Resource Center Presents Coming Out Month

Monday, September 30, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s LGBT Resource Center, within the Division of Student Affairs, continues its tradition of celebrating the month of October as “Coming Out Month,” in honor of the national “Coming Out Day” on Oct. 11. This month-long anniversary, designed to…

Veterans

Alumni Welcomed Back to Campus for Orange Central

Monday, September 30, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University students will get the celebration going early in the week, and alumni from around the world will be welcomed back to campus Oct. 3-6 for Orange Central 2013.

Campus & Community

October Filled with Disability Awareness Events on Campus

Friday, September 27, 2013, By News Staff

October has been nationally designated as Disability Awareness Month, and here at Syracuse University, the Disability Cultural Center, within the Division of Student Affairs, is partnering with constituents across campus to host a month-long series of events, conversations and programs…

Health & Society

‘The Subject is Sports’ Open to All

Thursday, September 26, 2013, By News Staff

Free massive open online course begins Oct. 14, explores historical, business perspectives of sport Sport is a business that entertains and inspires, bridging generations, time zones and cultures. In 2012, the sport industry in the United States alone was valued…

STEM

Biologists Confirm Role of Sperm Competition in Formation of New Species

Thursday, September 26, 2013, By Rob Enslin

‘Current Biology’ article marks culmination of six years of research Biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have confirmed that reproductive isolation, a critical step in the formation of new species, can arise from diversifying sperm competition. Their…

STEM

SU App Challenge Applications Open Oct. 1

Thursday, September 26, 2013, By Diane Stirling

For a second year, students across the SU campus can showcase their software and hardware application creativity while competing for $2,500 in prizes at the fall SU App Challenge. Competition founder Keisuke Inoue, an instructor for the School of Information…

STEM

SU Physicist Develops Model for Studying Tissue Pattern Formation

Wednesday, September 25, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Professor Lisa Manning wants to know if embryonic tissue behaves more like a solid or liquid—and why A team of scientists, including M. Lisa Manning, assistant professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has developed a model…

Arts & Culture

Five Distinguished Alumni to Receive George Arents Award during Orange Central

Wednesday, September 25, 2013, By News Staff

Five distinguished Syracuse University alumni, representing excellence in the areas of the performing arts; art; fashion design; advertising, wellness and philanthropy; and literature will be honored with the George Arents Award during the University’s 2013 Orange Central celebration. Those who…