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Health & Society

School of Education’s Center on Human Policy awarded $2.3 Million Grant for Community for All Project

Monday, August 11, 2014, By Jennifer Russo

The Center on Human Policy (CHP), a Syracuse University-based policy, research and advocacy organization affiliated with the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education in the School of Education, has been awarded a five-year, $2.3 million dollar National Institute on Disability…

Arts & Culture

Arts and Sciences Welcomes New Associate Dean, Academic Chairs

Friday, August 8, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Karin Ruhlandt, interim dean of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has appointed a new associate dean and four new academic chairs. The appointments, which go into effect immediately, are as follows: Paul Fitzgerald, associate dean for science, mathematics…

Arts & Culture

Gregg Lambert to Step Down from Syracuse University Humanities Center

Thursday, August 7, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Lambert, Dean’s Professor of Humanities, to Focus on Advancing the CNY Humanities Corridor to the ‘Next Level of Success’

Campus & Community

Gerontological Society of America Honors Harrington Meyer’s ‘Grandmothers at Work’

Wednesday, August 6, 2014, By News Staff

Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer has been awarded the Gerontological Society of America’s Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award for her book, “Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs.” Harrington Meyer was one of four scholars honored by the Gerontological Society of…

STEM

iSchool Senior Develops App to Alert Israelis of Rocket Strikes

Monday, July 28, 2014, By J.D. Ross

Last year, Benjamin Honig, a senior at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), won a scholarship award from Apple that provided him with admission to the company’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. While attending the WWDC in…

STEM

National Science Foundation Awards Elite Team of Physicists $5.2 Million

Monday, July 28, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The Syracuse University Experimental High Energy Physics Group has several reasons to celebrate—more than five million, in fact. The elite team of physicists, which includes professors Marina Artuso, Steven Blusk, Tomasz Skwarnicki and Sheldon Stone, was recently awarded $5.2 million…

Health & Society

Rosa Leon ’14 Awarded National Institute of Health Research Supplement

Monday, July 21, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Rosa Leon ’14, who graduated this past May with a dual major in biology and neuroscience, received a diversity supplement to Sandra and James Hewett’s National Institute of Health grant to support her research. This supplement will allow Leon to…

STEM

Going Direct: Communication in a Device-to-Device Network

Monday, July 21, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

Two Ph.D students, Chenfei Gao and Xiang Sheng, and their advisor Professor Jian Tang, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, received a best paper award in the 2014 IEEE…

STEM

Engaging Young Women in Engineering Through Project ENGAGE

Thursday, July 17, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Some of the area’s brightest seventh- and eighth-grade girls are taking part in Project ENGAGE. It’s an immersive week-long program that gives them an idea of what it takes to earn an engineering degree, and the possibilities once they graduate….

Media, Law & Policy

W. Henry Lambright’s New Book Explores NASA’s Mars Program

Wednesday, July 16, 2014, By News Staff

For decades, Mars has captured the human imagination. Since NASA’s establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place beyond the Moon where robotic and human exploration could possibly converge. In his…