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STEM

Green’s Research Helps Navy Design Vessels That Swim

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

Of all the features that affect fish movement, the flapping of the tail, or caudal fin, is one of the most important. This is where Melissa Green and her research team come in.

Undergraduate Social Work Program Earns Top 10 Ranking from USA Today

Friday, October 10, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Syracuse University’s School of Social Work in the Falk College was ranked eighth out of 332 programs studied, according to recently released results published in USA Today. The rankings are based on data from College Factual’s outcome-based higher education rankings…

Health & Society

R. David Lankes Writes About Being ‘The Boring Patient’

Thursday, October 2, 2014, By Diane Stirling

Professor R. David Lankes shares a personalized, humor-filled account of his experience being diagnosed with and living with cancer over the last two-plus years in his new book “The Boring Patient.”

NSF Fellows Given Creative Freedom to Explore Varied Topics

Thursday, October 2, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Ph.D. student Ariel Ash-Shakoor is helping create biomaterials that are better able to interact with human cells. She was one of three Syracuse University students in 2014 given a strong nod of encouragement to continue in their various fields through a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Wear Your Orange, Show Your Pride Oct. 3

Thursday, October 2, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse City Hall was just about painted Orange on Monday when local elected officials declared Sept. 29-Oct. 3 as “Orange Out Week”. In a strong show of community spirit ahead of Syracuse University’s ACC home opener against Louisville on Friday,…

Alumni To Receive Eggers, Generation Orange Awards During Orange Central

Wednesday, October 1, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University will recognize the extraordinary contributions of both its senior alumni and its younger alumni during Orange Central weekend Oct. 9-12. The Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award will be presented to Marylyn Ginsburg-Klaus ’56, G’57 and Irma Ginsberg…

Health & Society

Psychologist Awarded $400,000 Grant to Study Health Behaviors among African American High School Students

Wednesday, October 1, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Aesoon Park, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a three-year, $400,000 grant award from the National Institute of Health. A clinical psychologist and member of Syracuse’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, she will…

Arts & Culture

Two Time Tony Award-Winning Musical ‘Parade’ Starts SU Drama’s Season

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By News Staff

Daring, innovative, and bold, “Parade” won two well-earned Tony Awards in 2000. The tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in 1913 Georgia, serves as the basis for a tender love story.

Arts & Culture

Religion Professors Publish New Books

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The Department of Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating new books by two of its professors. Gustav Niebuhr is the author of “Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors”…

Newhouse School, Oprah Winfrey Celebrate New Studio and Innovation Center

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Thousands gathered outside the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications as Oprah Winfrey charged the students to live up to the high standards that come with such an impressive new facility.