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Campus & Community

Summer Snaps 2016

Monday, August 15, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

What are you doing on your summer vacation? See how members of the University community are having fun as the summer kicks into gear.

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…

STEM

Biologist Awarded NIH Grant to Study Link Between Early-Development Stress, Adult Disease

Wednesday, August 10, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A biologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a grant to study the link between early-development stress and adult disease. Assistant Professor Sarah Hall is using a $446,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to…

Campus & Community

Call for South Asia Center FLAS Academic Year 2016-17 Applications

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, By News Staff

Application Process Reopened Syracuse University’s South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Application Deadlines: Graduate Students: Monday, August 15, 2016 by 11:59 pm EST Undergraduate Students: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by 11:59 pm EST The…

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.

Health & Society

New Book by David B. Falk Professor Rick Burton Out This Week

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Scott McDowell

Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management, will release his newest book, “Sports Business Unplugged: Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports” (from Syracuse University Press) at a most auspicious time. The book, due in stores this…

STEM

Researchers Confirm Marine Animals Live Longer at High Latitudes

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that high-latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics. Their findings are the subject of an article in the “Proceedings of the Royal Society B” (The Royal…