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Office of Disability Services Director Paula Possenti-Perez looks at the realm of disability in terms of social justice as well as a matter of diversity. “It’s creating a new context around disability as being a positive asset and empowering and engaging students to see disability as a source of where additional strength and skills have been developed and enhanced—literally because they have a disability,” she says.

Research by Elizabeth Droge-Young, a Ph.D. student in biology, has caught the attention of the American Association of University Women. This past fall, she received AAUW’s annual American Dissertation Fellowship for her continuing work with the evolving reproductive traits of flour beetles.

Liz: So right here we are looking at female reproductive tracks of females who where mated to two different males. So this area here is called the bursa. It’s where sperm comes in and also where eggs will come down…

December was a good month for the Department of Art and Music Histories (AMH) in the College of Arts and Sciences, as two of its assistant professors made their authorial debuts. Luis Castañeda, an expert on urban, visual and design…

A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will arrive on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, to examine all aspects of the Department of Public Safety’s policy and procedures, management, operation and support services, Interim…

As a software engineer and manager at several Boston-area startup firms, Jeff Stanton became increasingly intrigued by the ways software development teams functioned. Some teams meshed well and were nimble and highly productive. Other teams worked poorly, produced buggy code,…

For the second time in as many months, School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Jeff Hemsley’s book, “Going Viral,” has been recognized with a significant award in the field of scholarly writing. The Association of College & Research Libraries…

A group of Syracuse University students recently played the role of Santa for the family of a young boy with cancer. Shannon Mowles ’15 and some of her classmates helped to brighten the holiday season for 6-year old Julian Ross…

Professor Jeremy Blumenthal, who joined the College of Law as an assistant professor in August 2005, died on Dec. 18. He was featured as an outstanding professor in the National Jurist (March 2011), where he is identified as being one…

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is known for setting the tempo for the times. (Just ask its Maestro Marin Alsop, the first female conductor of a major American orchestra.) So when the BSO recently unveiled plans to hire professional journalists to…