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Media, Law & Policy

Burdick Leads Study on Social Housing Projects in Brazil

Tuesday, August 16, 2016, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom have awarded $597,000 to a project led by Professor John Burdick (anthropology) to observe differently organized social housing projects in downtown Rio de Janeiro, to…

Health & Society

Ditre, Maisto Receive Grant to Study Links Between Chronic Pain, Alcohol Consumption

Friday, August 12, 2016, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The impact of heavy alcohol consumption upon individuals and society is well known. The effects of chronic pain upon those who live with it has also been well studied. Now, with a five-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes…

Campus & Community

Preferred Mutual ‘Cuse Fan Fest Canceled Due to Weather Forecast; Yard Sale Will Take Place as Scheduled

Friday, August 12, 2016, By SU Athletics

The 2016 Preferred Mutual ’Cuse Fan Fest scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 13, has been canceled due to the storms being forecast for Syracuse this weekend. The annual event usually features outdoor activities for fans of all ages. The Syracuse Athletics…

Campus & Community

McNair Scholars Present Research at Two-Day Symposium

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By Sean Kirst

Roshad Meeks is a self-described “military brat.” His father served in the U.S. Army, and Meeks spent much of his childhood in Germany. He was 11 or 12 when his family returned to Columbus, a little Mississippi city of about…

STEM

M. Cristina Marchetti Named Distinguished Professor

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By Carol Boll

M. Cristina Marchetti, the William R. Kenan Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Distinguished Professor by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly. The distinction is one of the University’s highest honors for…

Alumni to Receive Eggers, Generation Orange Awards During Orange Central

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By News Staff

A 60-year-strong reunion committee, a passionate supporter of Syracuse University and a young alumnus whose project provides care packages to active-duty military alumni will all be honored for their contributions during Orange Central homecoming weekend Sept. 15-18. The Melvin A….

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Sayler/Morris Receive Brower Center Art/Act Award, NYFA Fellowship

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, By Erica Blust

Artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris), faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia and co-directors of the Canary Lab, a hub for research-based, interdisciplinary art and media focused on ecology, have received…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Alumna Star Zhou Leads Coke’s Olympics Ad Campaign in China

Monday, August 8, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Just six years after graduating from the Newhouse School’s undergraduate program in advertising, Yishu “Star” Zhou ’10 is leading Coca-Cola’s Olympics advertising campaign in her native China. The campaign, which launched in May, was featured in AdvertisingAge and was chosen…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University, SEIU Confirm New Three-Year Agreement

Friday, August 5, 2016, By News Staff

Employees of Syracuse University represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 200United voted on Wednesday, Aug. 3, to ratify a three-year contract for 830 University employees, many of whom are food service providers, library technicians, skilled tradespeople, custodial…

STEM

Physicists Awarded NSF Grant to Study Cancer-Cell Behavior

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Rob Enslin

M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti and Jennifer Schwarz have been awarded a three-year, $686,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply principles of soft-matter physics to cancer therapy.