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Ceremony Today to Honor New Meredith Professors

Thursday, April 14, 2016, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Robert Doyle, professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Peter Wilcoxen, professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, will be named as the 2016-19 Laura J. and…

Campus & Community

Student Voter Registration Project Underway

Wednesday, February 24, 2016, By Keith Kobland

The push is on to make sure as many students as possible are registered to vote when the presidential election is held on Nov. 8. A voter registration campaign is now underway, but according to Diana Napolitano, it’s much more…

STEM

Entrepreneurial Engineering Students Improve Ambiance on Huckster Hill

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

What if engineering students from different majors had an opportunity to develop a solution for an actual company in a single semester? That is exactly what students in Professor of Practice Mark Povinelli’s “Introduction to Entrepreneurial Engineering” did last fall….

The Supreme Court’s “Unprecedented Judicial Activism”

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

University Professor David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law, offers an opinion on the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday that put a hold on the Obama’s administration’s Clean Power Plan. “The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling granting a stay of the…

STEM

Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Rob Enslin

LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes

Campus & Community

Baptist Campus Ministry Team Finds Hope, Joy in Work with Earthquake Survivors

Monday, February 8, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

In the terraced landscape of Nepal, a team from the Baptist Campus Ministry worked alongside residents disassembling crumbled homes and marking plots of homes that will be rebuilt following last year’s crippling earthquake.

Campus & Community

Climate Survey Seeks Campus Input to Help SU Develop More Inclusive Environment

Monday, February 8, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

The SU Climate Assessment Survey of all students, faculty and staff opens Tuesday, Feb. 9, and continues through March 11. The survey is conducted online on a secure off-site server hosted by Rankin & Associates Consulting, the outside consultant the…

Health & Society

Scholar Spotlight: Cora Cool-Mihalyi ’16

Thursday, February 4, 2016, By News Staff

Cora Cool-Mihalyi, a graduating senior in the School of Education and a Say Yes Scholar, firmly believes in and exemplifies the principle that all children deserve the right to equal education, regardless of their background or disabilities. Cool-Mihalyi is completing…

STEM

Biology Student Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Friday, January 29, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Caitlin McDonough, a Ph.D. student in biology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, supporting her study of the intricate details of reproduction. The award provides three years of independent financial support for early-career graduate students….