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Campus & Community

Covington, Schaf Named Class of 2019 Senior Class Marshals

Monday, April 9, 2018, By Shannon Andre

Covington and Schaf will lead the Class of 2019 and carry their class banner to open Syracuse University’s 165th Commencement ceremony.

Campus & Community

McNair Scholars to Host Dinner and Discussion for Students, Mentors on April 5

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

The McNair Scholars Program of Syracuse University will host the second event of the 2018 Dinner and Discussions Series on Thursday, April 5: a dinner-party take on the normal workshop atmosphere. The event, titled “Journeys to the MD/Ph.D.,” hosts three…

Health & Society

Psychologists Earn Rare Perfect Score on NIH Grant Application

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Sarah Woolf-King, Stephen Maisto awarded “10” on grant proposal, funding treatment of HIV-infected hazardous drinkers Two psychologists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have earned a rare perfect score on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) planning grant…

Arts & Culture

CNY Humanities Corridor Establishes Permanent Endowment

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Mellon Foundation enables Syracuse, Cornell, Rochester to endow Humanities Corridor in perpetuity   Syracuse University’s completion of the Central New York Humanities Corridor Endowment Program signals a new era in scholarly excellence. Thanks to a matching grant from The Andrew…

STEM

Innovation Orange: Katharine Lewis

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By Keith Kobland

Katharine (Kate) Lewis, a professor in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches how certain kinds of cells are formed in the spinal cord. In this edition of Innovation Orange, we see how the use…

AP

Bowhead Whales or Jazz Musicians?

Monday, April 2, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

New research has discovered the most musically-inclined whale. While that sentence seems odd, its true, as researchers have found that bowhead whales have created 184 different songs over a three-year span, a very high number considering the relatively low amount…

Campus & Community

Reporting of Uranium Mines, Architectural Adaptive Reuse among Student Research Granted Crown Awards

Monday, April 2, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Garet Bleir ’18 drove cross country last summer to Utah, Arizona and Colorado to take on a complex investigative journalism assignment. He was hired to investigate alleged human rights and environmental abuses involving uranium mining in the majestic Grand Canyon…

UPI

Opioid Crisis Centers Around Poverty, Expert Says

Friday, March 30, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

While many consider the opioid crisis to be a national issue, there are certain areas it hits harder than others. Shannon Monnat, an associate professor of sociology at the Maxwell School, told UPI in a recent interview that economic and social…

Business & Economy

Applications Now Open for Startup Dublin, iSchool’s Newest Experiential Learning Program

Friday, March 30, 2018, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced the launch of a new experiential learning program, Startup Dublin, a week-long travel program in Dublin, Ireland. Startup Dublin is a sister program to the iSchool’s well-known Spring Break in Silicon Valley, EntreTech NYC, and Peak…

Health & Society

Shaming into Brown

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, By Rob Enslin

The legacy of the late Oscar Zeta Acosta is experiencing something of a resurgence, owing to the success of the 2017 documentary “The Rise and Fall of ‘Brown Buffalo.’” The stout, pugnacious attorney—the real life model for Dr. Gonzo in…