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STEM

SU Geologists Contribute to New Understanding of Mekong River Incision

Monday, October 15, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

An international team of earth scientists has linked the establishment of the Mekong River to a period of major intensification of the Asian monsoon during the middle Miocene, about 17 million years ago, findings that supplant the assumption that the…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Marks National Arts and Humanities Month: University Celebrates ‘Importance of Culture’ with Spate of Events, Activities

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, By Rob Enslin

October is National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM), and Syracuse University is marking the occasion with an array of events and activities. Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center, says most of the University’s NAHM-related programming originates in the College…

Health & Society

Syracuse University Conducts First Systematic Review of Experimental Pain Research on Cannabis-Based Drugs

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have determined that cannabinoid drugs do not appear to reduce the intensity of experimental pain, but, instead, may make pain feel less unpleasant and more tolerable.

STEM

Crowston Awarded Lifetime Achievement Honors from the Academy of Management OCIS Division

Tuesday, September 18, 2018, By Diane Stirling

The career work and organizational-service contributions of a faculty member of the School of Information Studies has been recognized with a lifetime service award at the annual meeting of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) division of the Academy…

Campus & Community

Food Services Expands Its Sustainability Practices, One Plastic Straw at a Time

Sunday, September 16, 2018, By Greta Bush

There’s something missing this fall from all five campus dining centers. Don’t worry: the chicken tenders are still there. But plastic straws are gone. The plastic straw ban sweeping the nation has come to Syracuse University. SU Food Services opted…

Health & Society

Community-Based Health Research Provides Shared Learning Experience for Students, Community Members

Friday, September 14, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Grace E. Gugerty ’19 wasn’t too nervous when she first met the refugee family who she would be learning about over the span of the spring semester. “It was more of a lot of buildup in my head. I thought…

Arts & Culture

College of Visual and Performing Arts Welcomes Seven New Faculty

Thursday, September 13, 2018, By Erica Blust

Seven new full-time faculty members joined the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) this fall. Their disciplines span communication and rhetorical studies, computer art and animation, film, industrial and interaction design and music composition. Natalie Draper Setnor School of…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Welcomes New Faculty

Wednesday, September 12, 2018, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management (Whitman School) has added new faculty members to its team for the 2018-19 academic year. Robert Arscott is an assistant professor of finance whose research primarily concerns the interaction of corporations and debt capital markets,…

Health & Society

Sport Analytics Students Present Research at European Sports Economics Association Conference

Wednesday, September 12, 2018, By Margie Chetney

Students Justin Perline ’19 and Charles “CB” Garrett ’19 in Falk College’s sport analytics program attended and presented at the European Sports Economics Association (ESEA) Conference in Liverpool, England, from Aug. 29-31. ESEA is the premier sports economics conference held…

Campus & Community

Born to Run: Community to Pay Tribute to Beloved Chemistry Professor, Runner Roger Hahn Sept. 14

Tuesday, September 11, 2018, By Rob Enslin

  Roger Hahn approached life like a race—with passion and perseverance. Thus, when it came time for the beloved professor, also a fixture in the local running community, to hang up his sneakers, he did so with grace and dignity. “He…