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Arts & Culture

Summer Review 2014 at UVP Everson

Thursday, June 5, 2014, By Anneka Herre

Urban Video Project and Light Work have announced the UVP Summer Review 2014. During the months of June, July and August, UVP will be screening the works from the 2013-14 programming year at UVP Everson. If you missed one of…

Campus & Community

Fact Sheet: Realignment of University Support Services for Students Impacted by Sexual Violence

Wednesday, June 4, 2014, By News Staff

Last week, the University announced the realignment of key departments to create a stronger and more integrated set of University support services for students impacted by sexual violence. Some students and community members have expressed concern about the realignment of…

Arts & Culture

Professor Unveils ‘Lost Play’ by 17th-Century Master in Madrid

Wednesday, June 4, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The discovery of a “lost play” by one of Spain’s greatest writers was the subject of a recent standing-room-only event in Madrid, featuring a professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Alejandro García-Reidy, assistant professor of Spanish in…

Health & Society

Blending Passions for Playing, Studying Sports

Wednesday, June 4, 2014, By News Staff

In the 1990s, many economists disdained sports economics as a field for specialization. But, as someone who had played and watched sports his whole life, Rodney Paul went against that advice he heard in graduate school. Paul had an extensive…

Campus & Community

Artisanal Furniture Social Enterprise Launches on the Near West Side

Thursday, May 29, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Salt Works, a new social enterprise employing graduates of a local construction training program in the creation of artisanal furniture, will hold an official launch tonight from 5-7:30 p.m. at the headquarters of King + King Architects, 358 W. Jefferson…

Health & Society

Recognitions Continue for Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Members

Wednesday, May 28, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Vivian May named resident of Leading Women’s Studies Organization, receives Social Justice Recognition award

STEM

Scott Pitnick Appointed Weeden Professor

Wednesday, May 28, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Professor Scott Pitnick, a highly accomplished evolutionary biologist in the fields of sexual selection, reproductive genetics and speciation, has been appointed the inaugural Weeden Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. The professorship, appointed by the dean, will support…

STEM

Rules to Cut Carbon Emissions Also Reduce Other Air Pollutants

Tuesday, May 27, 2014, By News Staff

Setting strong standards for climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick and harm the environment, according to a new study by scientists at Syracuse University and Harvard.

Arts & Culture

Design Students Win National Awards for Bioroll Geotextile Mat

Friday, May 23, 2014, By Erica Blust

A team of fourth-year industrial and interaction design (IID) students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design won three $1,000 awards in the Royal Society of Arts U.S. (RSA-US) Student Design Awards. Boaz Cohen, Jesse Handelman, Jon…

Veterans

IVMF Receives $450,000 from Sam’s Club to Support Women Veteran Entrepreneurs

Friday, May 23, 2014, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has received a $450,000 grant from the Sam’s Club Giving Program to support women veteran entrepreneurs through its business management training program V-WISE, Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship. The Sam’s…