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Physicist Receives $1.17 Million NIH Grant to Create ‘Nanobiosensors’
Liviu Movileanu, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $1.17 million grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Movileanu will…
Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides
A geologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes—not climate change, as previously thought—affect the rate of landslides in Peru. The finding is the subject of an article in Nature Geoscience (Nature Publishing Group, 2014) by…
Campaign Data Collection and Analysis is First Project in iSchool’s New BITS Lab
As Election Day approaches, candidate advertisements and campaign messages consume the broadcast airwaves. But it’s another kind of political chatter—social in nature, occurring in bits and bytes, by and between candidates and among voters online—that several faculty members at the…
Author. Activist. Alumnus.
Elliott DeLine ’12, author, activist and alumnus, says his childhood was pretty ordinary, but his burgeoning career is nothing short of extraordinary. At only 26, DeLine is basking in early career success with the launch of his newest book, “$how…
Poet Daisy Fried to Share Work in Carver Reading Series
Award-winning poet Daisy Fried will participate in the Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series with a reading Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session is from 3:45- 4:30 p.m., followed by the reading, which begins at 5:30 p.m….
VPA Hosts Visiting Artists from New Zealand Oct. 20 and 23
The College of Visual and Performing Arts will host a trio of visiting artists from Massey University in New Zealand on Monday, Oct. 20, and Thursday, Oct. 23. The talks are sponsored by VPA’s Department of Art and Department of…
Social Entrepreneur Lauren Given Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that Lauren Bush Lauren, the founder and CEO of FEED Projects, is the inaugural winner of the school’s Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award, named for the late Sen. Daniel…
NSF Fellows Given Creative Freedom to Explore Varied Topics
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.
Libraries’ Radio Show, ‘Sound Beat,’ Added by Major Outlets
WAMC/Northeast Public Radio and Accessible Media Inc. have added “Sound Beat,” a 90-second daily feature highlighting the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive. Belfer is part of the Syracuse University Libraries and is one of the largest sound archives in…
Syracuse Hosts U.S. Hispanic Literary Recovery Conference Oct. 9-11
Syracuse University is observing National Hispanic American Heritage Month with a major conference on U.S. Hispanic literary culture.