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McNair Scholars Program Applications Open for 2019-2020
The Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program has opened applications for 2019-2020 McNair Scholars. Students with a strong interest in graduate education and a keen interest in research should apply by Feb. 24, 2019. The federally funded McNair Scholars program prepares high-achieving undergraduate…
VPA Professor’s New Book Examines President Andrew Jackson’s Rhetoric
Amos Kiewe, professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, examines the rhetoric of the United States’ seventh president, Andrew Jackson, in his new book “Andrew Jackson: A…
VPA Design Professor Publishes Book on Mid-Century Modern Interiors
Lucinda Kaukus Havenhand, professor of environmental and interior design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, has published the new book “Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America” (Bloomsbury Visual Arts). The 1930s to…
New Grant Program Supports Undergraduate Research, Creative Work with Funding up to $5,000
Syracuse University’s new Undergraduate Research office has opened an extensive new funding program for undergraduates conducting original research or creative work over the summer or for longer-term projects over the next academic year. The original work must be conducted with…
Engineering Students Design Sumo Wrestling Robots
The task for students was to build with a specific set of skills. It needed to be able to stay inside a marked circle and have away to push other robots outside the circle. “Just like sumo wrestling but a…
Syracuse Doctoral Student Earns LIGO Inaugural Award in Detector Characterization
Derek Davis had not been on the Syracuse University campus more than a week in 2015 before being swept up in the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that would thrill the astrophysics world and thrust the gravitational-wave research community onto…
Demonstrating Green Building Technologies in China
When College of Engineering and Computer Science Professor Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang set out to develop a software platform that would integrate and optimize the design of green buildings, little did he know it would lead to an international collaborative project…
Students: Name Your New Undergraduate Research Office
Last November, Syracuse University announced an annual commitment of $1 million to expand undergraduate research, creativity and discovery. The hub of this investment—the Undergraduate Research Office—will work across colleges and schools to foster and support diverse undergraduate engagement in faculty-guided…
Physicist Gabriela González G’95 Reveals How Syracuse Prepared Her to Make Science History
For Gabriela González G’95, life is a honeymoon—to quote a recent country hit. No sooner had the renowned physicist returned from her own honeymoon than she and her husband, fellow Argentinian theorist Jorge Pullin, moved the party to Syracuse in 1989. Swapping…
Professor Awarded NEH Fellowship to Study Democratization of Islamic Laws
A Syracuse University professor has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship, supporting research into the complex interplay between democracy and Muslim Family Laws (MFLs) in non-Muslim-majority countries. Yüksel Sezgin, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell…