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STEM

Exploring Fluid Dynamics in Virtual Reality

Monday, December 4, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

Virtual reality has grown beyond the gaming world and is increasingly being used for a variety of applications—including education. Researchers in Assistant Professor Melissa Green’s Flow Visualization Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science are developing a way to apply it to…

Arts & Culture

Linguist Tackles Trauma, Mental Health, Forensics and Tastes

Monday, December 4, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

Tej K. Bhatia has traveled the world connecting his expertise in linguistics with a broad array of related topics: trauma, mental health, forensics and tastes. Bhatia, professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of South Asian…

Arts & Culture

Disability Cultural Center Hosts Poetry Reading

Monday, December 4, 2017, By Shannon Andre

On Thursday, Dec. 7, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) is hosting a poetry reading in room 228B of Schine Student Center. The reading will take place noon-1 p.m. The reading features four poets, all of whom are also members of the…

Campus & Community

End the Semester with CLASS

Monday, December 4, 2017, By News Staff

The Center for Learning and Student Success (CLASS), in partnership with the Syracuse University Libraries and the Office of Health Promotion, wants to help students end the semester with CLASS. With fall semester classes coming to an end on Dec….

Campus & Community

Food Services Receives an A+ Score for the Second Year

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Keone Weigl

Having a vegan lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to give up eating well in the Syracuse University dining centers. In fact, there are an abundant amount of choices at every meal. SU graduate student A’keema Austin has been a vegan…

Moneyish

Blockbuster Demise Emblematic of Economy Trends, Says Thompson

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Blockbuster stores used to be everywhere across the United States. Now they stand deserted or filled with other businesses, a trend that has been copied across the nation, as pop culture expert and Newhouse professor Robert Thompson explained to Moneyish….

STEM

University Awarded $1.2 Million to Develop New Energy Saving Technology

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Syracuse University researchers have received $1,200,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). SU will partner with SRI International, a nonprofit research center, to develop a low-cost, high-accuracy sensor platform that accurately detects human…

Campus & Community

Alumnus Kwang Tan, Ph.D., Makes $3.5 Million Gift in Support of Student Health, Wellness and Recreation

Friday, December 1, 2017, By News Staff

Tan’s gift will support significant renovations to Archbold Gymnasium, which includes the creation of the Barnes Center at The Arch, a new state-of-the-art, health, wellness and recreation complex.

STEM

SU, FBI Host Gathering of Stakeholders Involved in Biosecurity Response

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

The University’s Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), Washington, D.C., sponsored a recent workshop on campus that brought together researchers, local, state and federal law…

Campus & Community

King Family Gift Supports Architecture Reading Room Renovation, Renaming

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Dean of Libraries David Seaman and School of Architecture Dean Michael Speaks have announced a generous gift from Russell A. King ’52 and his late wife, Joan “Jiggy” King ’50,  to create the King + King Architecture Library Endowed Support Fund….