Search Results for: ,rIB

STEM

Physicist Gabriela González G’95 Reveals How Syracuse Prepared Her to Make Science History

Friday, January 4, 2019, By Rob Enslin

For Gabriela González G’95, life is a honeymoon—to quote a recent country hit. No sooner had the renowned physicist returned from her own honeymoon than she and her husband, fellow Argentinian theorist Jorge Pullin, moved the party to Syracuse in 1989. Swapping…

STEM

Syracuse Intensifies Search for New ‘Ghostly’ Particles

Wednesday, January 2, 2019, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are playing an important role in a multinational neutrino experiment that could lead to major breakthroughs in the study of the universe. Mitch Soderberg, associate professor of physics, oversees a group…

STEM

Concept to Design Library ‘Critical Catalog’ Earns ASIS&T Best Paper Proposal Award

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By Diane Stirling

A paper describing a proposal to create a new type of library catalog—one that, in the way it uses metadata, acts as an “affirmative action” system to advocate for diversity and expose library users and readers to resources from populations…

STEM

Growing the Science of Sustainability: Molecular Biologist Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 Expounds on Importance of GMOs, Science Literacy

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 has built a career on defying the odds. From working her way through college as a single mother to being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons (bits of DNA that hop from place to…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Retains Top-Tier Research Ranking in Latest Carnegie Classification

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By News Staff

Syracuse University has once again earned a position in the top tier for research activity among all doctoral universities in the nation, according to the newly released Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Included among 120 R1 doctoral universities,…

Campus & Community

Katie Berrell: A Scholar’s Special Journey Through Remembrance

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Even though he passed away nearly a decade before she was born, Steven Russell Berrell has always been a strong presence in the life of his niece, Katie, a Syracuse University senior. His smile radiates from the family pictures in…

Media, Law & Policy

Guiding Syracuse Students Along Their Path to Becoming Media Entrepreneurs

Tuesday, December 18, 2018, By Eileen Korey

Though Sean Branagan ’80 aspired to be a magazine writer when he entered the Newhouse School, he discovered his calling elsewhere—in the fast-evolving field of digital media and interactive marketing. A self-described “instigator, entrepreneur, educator and startup coach,” Branagan brought…

Campus & Community

Nominations Sought for Teaching Recognition Award for Non-Tenured Faculty Members

Monday, December 17, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Nominations are being accepted for the Teaching Recognition Award to highlight outstanding teaching by non-tenured faculty members. The Teaching Recognition Award, a component of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorship program,, recognizes excellence in teaching and encourages a…

Campus & Community

Chancellor’s Citation Selection Committee Announced; Deadline for Nominations Set

Friday, December 14, 2018, By News Staff

The members of the 2018-19 Chancellor’s Citation Selection Committee have been announced and a deadline for nominations is set. Members of the committee review nominations for the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence and submit their recommendations to Chancellor Kent Syverud. The…

Veterans

Vice Chancellor Haynie Testifies before NYS Assembly Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Subcommittee on Women Veterans

Thursday, December 13, 2018, By News Staff

On Wednesday, J. Michael Haynie, vice chancellor, and executive director and founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, testified before the New York State Assembly Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and Subcommittee on Women Veterans at the State Capitol…