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New Research Published on Disability and Mortality Disparity
Earlier this month, Associate Professor of Sociology Scott Landes published a new study entitled “Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19” in the August edition of Health Affairs journal. The report is…
Law Professor’s Research Uses Artificial Intelligence to Improve Fairness of Criminal Court Scheduling
A College of Law professor who is an expert on criminal court pretrial appearance is partnering with computer science faculty to see if artificial intelligence tools and optimized data analysis can improve fairness and efficiency in scheduling defendants’ court dates….
Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Shows History’s Views on Intellectual Disability
Graduate students in the School of Education turned to primary source documents and artifacts at Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) to discover enlightening—and sometimes startling—information and examples of the ways that people with intellectual disability have been…
Undergraduate Students Celebrate the Fruits of Their Summer Research
This summer, undergraduates Xuezhu (Stephanie) Hua ’25, Kaniya Ross ’25 and Edward Lu ’26 have been deeply engaged in research. Hua, a nutrition science major in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, has investigated the effects of fish…
Collin Capano ’05, G’11 Breaking New Ground With Open Source Program Office and Astrophysics Research
Collin Capano ’05, G’11, director of the University’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO), has been in the right place at the right time for breakthrough discoveries and innovative programming several times in his career. His latest role is another…
What’s Driving Increased Rainfall in the Eastern US? A&S Researchers Seek Answers
Widespread climate change from global warming has devastating and lasting effects on human health, infrastructure and food production. As temperatures rise, certain areas are dealing with intense droughts and water scarcity, while other regions are experiencing catastrophic rainfall and flooding….
From Sovereignty to Mortality: Tenth Decade Awards Support Research Across Disciplines
The Tenth Decade Project was developed 10 years ago in the lead-up to the Maxwell School’s 100th anniversary in 2024. Funded by gifts from hundreds of individual donors, including a lead gift from long-time Maxwell supporters Gerry and Daphna Cramer,…
Ying Shi Named William T. Grant Scholar for Research on School Victimization
Ying Shi, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been named a William T. Grant Scholar and received a $350,000 award to explore Asian American students’ exposure to victimization…
Nimisha Thakur Receives Newcombe Fellowship for Doctoral Research in India
Nimisha Thakur, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Newcombe Fellowship supports…
Physicist Awarded NSF Research Grant to Increase Our Understanding of Gravitational Waves
The Department of Physics at Syracuse University has long partnered with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental workings of the universe. In 2015, the Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group played a leading…