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Arts & Culture

Talent Agency Grooms Artistic Teens for Success

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

David Gebremichael is one of a group of teens who, surprisingly during the summer, get themselves out of bed early and down to the Nancy Cantor Warehouse on West Fayette Street in Syracuse by 9 a.m. four days a week….

STEM

High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn’t just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school—she was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll’s environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…

STEM

Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Rob Enslin

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”

Health & Society

A Decade of PRIDE

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Amy Manley

Celebrating its 10th year, the highly competitive Program PRIDE (Psychology Research Initiative for Diversity Enhancement) program brings together Syracuse University undergraduates from underrepresented groups and invites them to develop an original independent psychology summer research project over the course of…

Veterans

IVMF Awarded Nearly a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Help Advance Government Support of Veterans and Families

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Stephanie Salanger

In separate grants, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) and IBM Center for the Business of Government awarded the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) research and evaluation division over $235,000 to study strategies and approaches to reinvent traditional federal…

Campus & Community

Four Accomplished Alumni to Receive Arents Awards During Orange Central

Tuesday, July 25, 2017, By John Boccacino

The Arents Award, Syracuse University’s highest alumni honor, honors the legacy of George Arents, a successful manufacturer who served on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees from 1930 until his death in 1960.

STEM

Syracuse Revels in Mega-Science Experiment to Study Neutrinos

Monday, July 24, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Associate Professor Mitchell Soderberg and Assistant Professor Denver Whittington are part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

James Fathers

Professor, Industrial and Interaction Design; Collaborative Design and Director of School of Design
STEM

University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM

Thursday, July 13, 2017, By Carol Boll

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to Syracuse University to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…

Health & Society

Falk Professor Offers Insight about Los Angeles Hosting the 2028 Olympic Games

Wednesday, July 12, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Rick Burton, David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management and former chief marketing officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, is available for expert commentary surrounding news that Los Angeles may be home to the…