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Stephanie James Named Founding Director of VPA’s School of Art
Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has appointed Stephanie James the founding director of the college’s future School of Art. James is a fine artist and currently associate dean and head of the School of Visual Arts…
Charles Clotfelter: ‘Colleges and Their Customers: The Market for Baccalaureate Education in the Age of Merit and Disparity’
EFAP – Jerry Miner Lecture Series April 24, 3:30-5 p.m., 426 Eggers Hall, Center for Policy Research Charles Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University, where he has…
Centscere Wins $150,000 in StartupLabs Competition
Centscere, the philanthropic student venture that began last summer in the Syracuse Student Sandbox, and entered the Syracuse StartupLabs competition earlier this year, was awarded the top prize of $150,000 in the StartupLabs contest. At the Centerstate CEO annual meeting…
Student Startups Win over $150,000 at Emerging Talk
Student start-ups won a combined $153,000 in seed funding at the third annual Emerging Talk conference on April 11 and 12. Emerging Talk was a weekend full of inspiring Power Chats by local and national entrepreneurs, a keynote by “Shark…
Professors Test Boundaries of ‘New Physics’ with Discovery of Four-Quark Hadron
Physicists in The College of Arts and Sciences have helped confirm the existence of exotic hadrons—a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. Their finding is the subject of a forthcoming article, prepared by the…
SU Plays Key Role in Search for Elusive Dark Matter
The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from The College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of…
Inauguration Day Press Kit: Biography of Chancellor Kent Syverud
Kent Syverud is Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. Appointed by the University’s Board of Trustees in September 2013, he assumed the leadership post in January 2014, becoming the 12th leader of the University since its founding in 1870. Chancellor…
Engineering Students Add ‘Spark’ to Advanced Manufacturing
Students from Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science recently took part in a competition that aims to add some spark to the field of advanced manufacturing. As part of the second annual ‘Spark’ Innovation Competition, the students worked…
Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes
Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…
Shark Tank Comes to Syracuse
It takes an entrepreneurial ecosystem to help turn an idea into a venture. And plenty of students are taking on the challenge of executing on their ideas. Students need to connect with entrepreneurs, and students and the Central New York…