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Geophysicist Questions Stability of Antarctic Ice Sheet


Friday, January 29, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is joining the growing debate over the fate of the world’s largest ice sheet, whose sudden melting is sending shockwaves throughout the geophysics community. Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth sciences,…

Campus & Community

Travel Refinements and Further Training as Travel Team Reconvenes

Thursday, January 14, 2016, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

At the recommendation of the Travel and Entertainment Initiative Team, the University is taking the following actions to address the immediate concerns raised by faculty, staff and students related to the Travel Policy that took effect Sept. 1, 2015. While…

STEM

Electrical Pricing Research Wins Best Paper Award

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

Manek Biswas G ’13 and College of Engineering and Computer Science Professor Chilukuri K. Mohan won the Best Paper Award in the energy-efficient computing track at the International Conference on Eco-Friendly Computing and Communication Systems. Their research, “Algorithms for the…

STEM

Engineering on Trial

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

Last fall, students in College of Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Practice Svetoslava Todorova’s Introduction to Environmental Engineering class had their day in court. As an exercise in learning about groundwater and contaminant transport in the subsurface, students analyzed…

Campus & Community

Students Assist Refugee Families in Learning English

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Ten Syracuse University students helped new refugees and their children become a little more familiar with life in a new country this past semester. The students, along with other community volunteers, assisted in teaching English as a Second Langauge (ESL)…

Arts & Culture

‘Big Will and Friends’ to Explore Optical Effects, Environmental Impact of Wallpaper

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, By Elaine Wackerow

The exhibition is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and College of Visual and Performing Arts Professor Stephen Zaima.

Arts & Culture

Perpetual Peace Project Expands Global Footprint

Monday, January 11, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Perpetual Peace Project (PPP)—a multilateral curatorial program, co-founded by Syracuse University—has announced two new initiatives, exploring the possibilities of world peace from a humanistic perspective. The first initiative involves the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University (UU) in…

Campus & Community

Scholar Spotlight: Ryan Hackett ’16

Wednesday, December 16, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Ryan Hackett, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is a double major in political science and international relations. He was recently selected to represent Syracuse University at the…

Crowston, Østerlund Funded for New NSF Citizen Science Project

Tuesday, December 15, 2015, By Diane Stirling

Two School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members are exploring new ways of combining the efforts of citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms to classify data from a National Science Foundation-funded research initiative called “the most complicated experiment ever undertaken in…

STEM

NSF Funds $1.12M for Transmission Electron Microscope

Thursday, December 10, 2015, By News Staff

Students will benefit from a $1.12 million grant from the National Science Foundation, which will be used for a new field emission scanning/transmission electron microscope at SUNY ESF. The microscope will give scientists a new tool to use in research…