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Tavlarides Awarded DOE Grant for Nuclear Research on Capturing Radioactive Gases

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

Nuclear power plants supply more than 30 percent of the world’s electricity, helping reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. However, with nuclear reactors operating around the globe, treating the waste they generate is an ongoing concern. For the past six…

Veterans

Institute for Veterans and Military Families Receives Largest Single Research Grant to Date

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has received a $400,000 research grant from the Kauffman Foundation to study veteran and military-connected entrepreneurs as part of the foundation’s inaugural “Knowledge Challenge.” The award marks the largest…

Arts & Culture

University Set to Open Massive 238-Painting Exhibition, ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth,’ with Accompanying Public Discussion Hosted by Tanner Lecture Series, University Lectures

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

All 238 paintings in Robert Shetterly’s masterwork portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship” will be on public display for the first time en masse Nov. 29-Dec. 14 at Syracuse University. And the artist himself will…

Arts & Culture

Poet Dylan Krieger Speaking Friday at Noon in Bird Library

Monday, November 26, 2018, By News Staff

Critically acclaimed poet Dylan Krieger is the featured guest author for the latest Lunch Time Poems series event on Friday, Nov. 30, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. Communication Access Real-time Translation…

Campus & Community

4 Questions with Adam Peruta

Wednesday, November 21, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

This fall, Syracuse University launched the ’Cuse Challenge mobile app. To learn more about the app, and how it came to Syracuse, we asked Adam Peruta, the app developer four questions. In addition to developing the app, Peruta is an…

Veterans

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families Transforms How NYC Delivers Social Services to Veterans

Tuesday, November 20, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

In support of New York City’s 200,000 veterans and military-connected families, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Veterans Day that the city will formally adopt and fund an innovative new approach to health and human service delivery, pioneered by Syracuse…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School Among the First to Offer Pilot Program in Concussion Reporting Training

Tuesday, November 20, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Alumnus Bob Costas ’74 and professor of practice Olivia Stomski helped develop the program in partnership with the Concussion Legacy Foundation The first-ever concussion reporting training program was piloted at the Newhouse School this fall. The three-hour Concussion Reporting Workshop,…

STEM

iSchool Researchers to Study Election-Related Misinformation on WhatsApp

Monday, November 19, 2018, By J.D. Ross

A pair of researchers from the Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have received a research award from the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging service to study the issues of misinformation transmitted over the…

Campus & Community

Nominations Welcome for University’s 2019 Commencement Speaker

Monday, November 19, 2018, By News Staff

Members of the University community are invited to suggest a speaker for the 2019 Commencement. The speaker is chosen through an annual selection process that starts when students, staff, faculty, alumni and others in the community offer nominees via the…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Community Members Honored at 2018 YMCA CNY Book Awards

Monday, November 19, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

Two members of the Syracuse University community recently received awards at the 2018 YMCA Central New York (CNY) Book Awards. Christine Kitano G’10 and Stephen Kuusisto, University Professor, won the 2018 YMCA CNY Book Award for Poetry and Nonfiction, respectively….