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Arts & Culture

College of Arts and Sciences Announces Tolley Professorships

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, By Amy Manley

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has announced the consecutive appointments of two highly regarded and esteemed faculty members to the title of William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. Ken Frieden will hold the appointment for…

STEM

Syracuse Awarded $3.7 Million for Particle Physics Research

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences are closer to understanding what happened after the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The High-Energy Physics (HEP) Group in the…

Veterans

Sociologists Link Service-Connected Disability to Veteran Mortality Disadvantage

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, By Rob Enslin

The impact of service-connected disability (SCD) on the U.S. veteran mortality rate is the subject of a presentation by a trio of Syracuse University professors at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Philadelphia. Scott Landes,…

STEM

Wearable IV Device Wins SU Campus Session of Invent@SU

Monday, August 13, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

It was a perfect meeting of tech and design. Industrial and interaction design majors Quinn King ’20 and Alec Gillinder ’20 saw a need for a portable, lightweight device that could deliver intravenous (IV) fluids and spent six weeks designing…

Campus & Community

Historic $1 Million Gift to Hendricks Chapel Launches New Student Opportunity Fund: Endowment Provides Financial Assistance for Students in Need

Monday, August 13, 2018, By Carol Boll

A historic $1 million gift to Hendricks Chapel will assist students experiencing financial hardship and ensure access to academic enrichment opportunities that would otherwise be unavailable to them, announced Hendricks Chapel Dean Brian Konkol. The gift, from a Syracuse University…

Campus & Community

Fulbright Scholars Find an American Welcome at SU

Friday, August 3, 2018, By Eileen Jevis

Dian Purwanti, from Indonesia, was most impressed with the clean tap water. For Cyrille Zongo, from Burkina Faso in West Africa, it was the clean streets. Rawan Badarna, from Palestine, was amazed by the technology and diversity. These bright, motivated…

Media, Law & Policy

Six Distinguished Members of College of Law Community to Receive Law Honors Award

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, By Robert Conrad

On Sept. 28, the Syracuse University Law Alumni Association and the College of Law will celebrate the singular achievements of six esteemed members of its community with the prestigious Syracuse Law Honors Awards. Established in 2015, the award is conferred…

STEM

iSchool Researchers to Participate in Twitter-funded Study on Discussion Quality

Monday, July 30, 2018, By J.D. Ross

In the context of growing political polarization, the spread of misinformation, and increases in incivility and intolerance, how can the Twitter social networking service assess and improve the quality of its conversations?  Two researchers from the School of Information Studies (iSchool)…

Veterans

Military Veterans Attend Academic Boot Camp on Campus

Tuesday, July 24, 2018, By News Staff

For some military veterans, the first day of school at a new college or university is as challenging as a deployment to a foreign country. Immersion in a new culture and reintroduction to a demanding academic environment can make the…

Campus & Community

Whitman School Professor Fred Easton Remembered

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, By Kerri D. Howell

Fred Easton, professor of supply chain management in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, passed away June 29. He was 68. Easton, who was born in Sarnia, Ontario, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, and later Salinas, California,…