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Point of Contact to Release Special-Edition Poetry Broadside ‘Besos’

Friday, November 7, 2014, By News Staff

A special-edition poetry broadside from the published collection “El Beso” by Pedro Cuperman will be released, in English and Spanish, at the annual Point of Contact Patron Holiday Benefit on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. This year’s event is a…

STEM

Hemsley’s ‘Going Viral’ Wins Annual ASIS&T Book Award

Friday, November 7, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A faculty member whose research and writing regarding the components and characteristics of virality in the online media space is having that scholarship recognized with one of two best book awards at the annual meeting of the Association of Information Science…

Barry Scheck Explores Impact of DNA Evidence in Nov. 11 University Lecture

Thursday, November 6, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Renowned attorney and DNA expert Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, will be the next guest of the University Lectures series on Tuesday, Nov. 11, in Hendricks Chapel. Scheck’s lecture, “The Innocence Project: DNA and the Wrongly Convicted,” will…

Arts & Culture

University Hosts Play about Spanish Playwright Lope de Vega

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A contemporary play about the complicated last days of Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, the foremost Spanish playwright of the 1600s, is coming to Syracuse University. The Spanish theater company Fundación Siglo de Oro will present “Entre Marta y…

Media, Law & Policy

Thompson Appears in Documentary

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, By News Staff

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor in the Newhouse School and director of the Bleier Center for Popular Culture, appears with James Gandolfini, Steve Buscemi, Michael Imperioli, David Chase and others in “Defining a Television Landmark,” a documentary film released by HBO…

Arts & Culture

Artist and Critical Musicologist Explores T-Pain’s Use of Sonic, Cinematic Strategies

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The sonic and cinematic strategies of hip-hop producer and rapper T-Pain are the subject of a forthcoming scholarly article by James Gordon Williams, a new faculty member of the College of Arts and Sciences. An assistant professor of African American…

Health & Society

CSD’s Newest Faculty Member Awarded $557,000 NIH Grant

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Jonathan Preston G’02, G’08 may be new to the Syracuse University faculty, but he’s no stranger to the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD). Preston first stepped onto campus as a graduate student 13 years ago. Today, he is…

STEM

Physicist Receives $1.17 Million NIH Grant to Create ‘Nanobiosensors’

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Liviu Movileanu, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $1.17 million grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Movileanu will…

Health & Society

Jennifer Wilkins Updates First U.S. Regional Food Guide

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Thanks to farmers’ markets, farm-to-school programs and community-supported agriculture, locally grown foods are more readily available—and more in demand. People want to know where their food comes from. How is it grown? What steps are involved in its processing? Evidence…

STEM

Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A geologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes—not climate change, as previously thought—affect the rate of landslides in Peru. The finding is the subject of an article in Nature Geoscience (Nature Publishing Group, 2014) by…