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Angela Woods ‘05 to Host U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship Program Seminar

Friday, September 12, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

Angela Woods ’05, a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Education and a program officer for the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program, will present a two-part seminar to undergraduate and graduate students interested in applying to the…

SU Libraries Names Six New Members to Advisory Board

Friday, September 12, 2014, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries has appointed six new members to its advisory board. “These six individuals bring a keen strategic perspective for enhancing the resources, services, and environments of the 21st-century Syracuse University academic research libraries,” says Interim Dean of Libraries…

Laboratories of Opportunity

Thursday, September 11, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Karin Ruhlandt takes a step forward, adjusts the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and peers at a small graph in the center of a large, white science poster. “This is why we stay up five days in a…

Health & Society

Communication Sciences and Disorders’ Beth Prieve Awarded $1.4 Million Grant

Wednesday, September 10, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The most common birth defect among newborn babies is hearing loss. In fact, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, more than 12,000 babies are born each year with some degree of hearing loss. But Beth Prieve, professor of communication sciences…

University Launches Commemoration of 25th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Wednesday, September 10, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Nearly 25 years later, approximately 4,000 miles away, Syracuse University is commemorating this historic occasion with a three-month-long series of events.

STEM

Lecture to Focus on Brain Imaging

Monday, September 8, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

The College of Engineering and Computer Science’s Biomedical and Chemical Engineering department will host “Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Beating Optical Diffusion and Diffraction,” as part of the BMCE Distinguished Lecture Series on Friday, Sept. 12, in 001 Life Science Complex, from…

Veterans

Libraries Partner with Emerald Group Publishing to Support EBV

Monday, September 8, 2014, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries has brokered an agreement with Emerald Group Publishing to secure an extensive collection of eBooks and eJournals for use by participants in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program. Emerald representatives approached the libraries with…

Lineup Announced for Fall 2014 Carver Reading Series

Friday, September 5, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Creative Writing Program will once again present six writers in its Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series. Named for the great short story writer and poet who taught at Syracuse in the 1980s and died in 1988, the Raymond…

STEM

Biologist Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant

Friday, September 5, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

James Hewett, an associate professor of biology and neuroscientist, was recently awarded a $440,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hewett will use this…

Chancellor Syverud Appoints Members to Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Advocacy

Friday, September 5, 2014, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud today appointed the members of the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Advocacy. The charge to the workgroup is to provide ideas, suggestions and proposals for how the University can continue to address the serious…