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Professor Goode’s Tolley Professorship Focus: Creating Climate Change Teaching Materials, Partnerships
The Humanities play an instrumental role in shaping thinking about the past, present and future of environmental and climate change issues. Scientists can present hard data about the climate crisis and other ecological challenges. But it is humanists who are…
Professor Jianshun ‘Jensen’ Zhang Named Executive Director of Syracuse Center of Excellence
Syracuse University has named a new executive director to lead the Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) in Environmental and Energy Systems. Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang, a longtime professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), begins in that role…
Accomplished Physicist Duncan Brown Appointed Syracuse University’s Next Vice President for Research
Gretchen Ritter, vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer, today announced Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics and an accomplished physicist, has been appointed Syracuse University’s next vice president for research. Brown’s appointment, which was approved by…
The Study Council Sponsors CNY Book Study to Promote Equity-Focused School Leadership
An example of the School of Education’s extensive collaboration with regional school districts—as well as its commitment to inclusive, equitable and antiracist education—The Study Council’s 2021-2022 CNY Book Study wrapped up on May 18. This year’s book— “Five Practices for…
AFRL-Syracuse University Consider Quantum Research Pairing, Student Opportunities for Future Collaborations
More than 30 Syracuse University faculty and leaders and representatives from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab convened on campus on May 6 to ideate around future collaboration opportunities. These include combined research initiatives in quantum information science and quantum…
Maxwell Professor Herrold Awarded Fulbright to Study Grassroots Community Change in Serbia
Increasingly around the world, citizens are tapping local resources and volunteerism to organize social change outside of established norms and institutions. The distinct ways people mobilize and sustain those initiatives are what Catherine Herrold will study with her recently announced…
5th Round of CUSE Grants Awards $510,000 to 31 Projects
The Office of Research is funding 31 CUSE grant projects this year in the fifth round of annual internal grants. The Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE grants) program is dedicated to growing the Universitywide research enterprise, enhancing interdisciplinary…
Funding Expands for Newhouse Professors’ Work on Technology to Combat Fake News
Two professors from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications who are working on the development of technology to detect manipulated media and combat the spread of fake news are supported by a subcontract that now tops $1.1 million, thanks…
IVMF Digital Library Launched
Syracuse University’s D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), Syracuse University Libraries and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) partnered to create and launch the IVMF Digital Library at divmflibrary.syr.edu. It includes IVMF-authored publications and research, as well as…
Over 100 A&S Students Share Work at Undergraduate Research Festival
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) hosted one of the University’s largest in-person undergraduate research festivals on April 22. The event offered a sneak peek of scholarly possibilities to current and also admitted students who were on campus for…