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Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of languages, literatures and linguistics (LLL) in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected recipient of the 2010 Humboldt Research Award.

A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York’s Three Rivers system—involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers—has revealed that oxygen resources have become degraded by several stressors, including the impact of wastewater treatment plants, nonpoint runoff, an increase in invasive zebra mussels and channelization of the flow.

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal prosecutors along the United States’ southwest border with Mexico—many already strained by the rise in their immigration caseloads—are facing a new challenge: how to handle a sharp jump in drug cases.

A new TRAC report, based on data extracted from the IRS under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that in the face of growing federal deficits, the agency’s audits of the nation’s largest corporations have sharply dropped in the last few years.

The College of Human Ecology and its College Research Center will host a book signing on April 15 for the SU and local community featuring the published works of professor emerita Alice Sterling Honig and professor of health and wellness, social work and anthropology Sandra Lane.

In conjunction with its yearlong theme “Journeys of Interdisciplinary Observation,” the Interdisciplinary Research Group based in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present a poster session on Monday, April 19.

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) has released the latest edition of its annual report on the operations of the Internal Revenue Service.

Syracuse University Project Advance® (SUPA) has announced the publication of “Our Courses Your Classroom®: Research on Syracuse University Courses Taught in High School,” edited by Gerald S. Edmonds, director of SUPA and Sari Z. Signorelli, associate director of SUPA. Collected here, for the first time in one volume, is a retrospective of SUPA’s research since its inception in 1972.

A team led by Syracuse University researcher Radhakrishna Sureshkumar has discovered a new and broadly applicable technique to engineer nanoscale templates.

The findings are said to have huge implications for reproductive biology.