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Dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot to Speak Today at Falk College

Monday, April 9, 2018, By News Staff

Tanya Zuckerbrot will speak on April 9 at 6 p.m., in Falk 100, with a reception taking place starting at 5 p.m. She will speak to the audience about her renowned F-Factor Diet, the only dietitian-created program for weight loss that…

STEM

Invent@SU Students Design Inflatable Cushion to Help People with Mobility Challenges

Friday, April 6, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

As part of the Invent@SU session held in New York City during the summer of 2017, Kalia Barrow ’17 and Ruby Batbaatar ’19 invented “Pneu-Strength.” There device is an inflatable cushion system that can help people with mobility issues to…

Campus & Community

Plaque Dedication Honors Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Thursday, April 5, 2018, By Joseph M. Heslin

Syracuse University continues to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Wednesday, a plaque honoring Dr. King was unveiled on the site where he spoke on campus in 1965. That was his second visit to…

Arts & Culture

YouTube Sensations Damon and Jo to Visit Campus April 11

Thursday, April 5, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

In 2015, best friends Damon Dominique from Indiana and Joanna Franco from Brazil started a series of travel videos for young people who want to travel but may have a limited budget, or who lack familiarity with a particular destination….

Health & Society

Psychologists Earn Rare Perfect Score on NIH Grant Application

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Sarah Woolf-King, Stephen Maisto awarded “10” on grant proposal, funding treatment of HIV-infected hazardous drinkers Two psychologists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have earned a rare perfect score on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) planning grant…

Campus & Community

12 Seniors Named as University Scholars, Highest Undergraduate Honor

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By News Staff

Twelve seniors have been named as the 2018 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. University Scholars will represent the entire graduating class at the May 13 Commencement ceremony. On Wednesday, May 9, the scholars will…

STEM

Innovation Orange: Katharine Lewis

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, By Keith Kobland

Katharine (Kate) Lewis, a professor in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches how certain kinds of cells are formed in the spinal cord. In this edition of Innovation Orange, we see how the use…

MedPage Today

What the Veterans Affairs Needs

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Mike Haynie, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation and founding executive director of IVMF, was interviewed by MedPage today an article about the nomination of Dr. Ronny Jackson as the next head of Veterans Affairs.  “Jackson’s Nomination to Run…

Media, Law & Policy

Major Factors Contributing to Statewide Teacher Strikes

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Thousands of school teachers in Oklahoma have returned to the picket lines today for the second day of strikes, demanding more public education spending. In Kentucky, thousands of teachers packed the state Capitol calling for changes to their pension plans….

Business & Economy

Whitman Seniors Featured among Poets & Quants for Best and Brightest Business Majors

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, By Kerri D. Howell

Catherine Cummings and Justin Harris, both seniors at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management, were featured as two of the “best & brightest undergraduate business majors,” by Poets & Quants for Undergrads, a news website for undergraduate business education….