Students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to work with acclaimed researcher and storyteller Patrick W. Berry and the award-winning Project Mend by applying for the 2026-28 Lender Center for Social Justice Student Fellowship. Berry, an associate professor of writing, rhetoric and composition in the College of Arts and Sciences,  is the 2026-28 Lender Faculty Fellow. Berry’s work explores how publishing and collaborative media production can create new opportunities for civic participatio...

Pranav Soman, professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), has been named director of the University’s BioInspired Institute. “My vision is to build a trust-based community where we elevate our research together. I am optimistic about securing center-scale and collaborative funding and championing new entrepreneurship and industry partnerships,” Soman says. He also plans to help incubate a new generation of Syracuse University-based e...

A new grant recently awarded to two faculty members by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) underlines Syracuse University’s national reputation in public policy, population health and aging research. The $1.3 million Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, a training grant awarded to Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs professors Shannon Monnat and Emily Wiemers, provides support to outstanding doctoral students who will lead the next generation of population health...

Two Syracuse University faculty members have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to digitize portions of the Jeffrey Amherst Papers—a rare, 54-volume trove of 18th-century documents charting British, American colonial and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy relations in the years surrounding the American Revolution. Sebastian Modrow, principal investigator and assistant professor in the School of Information Studies, and Philip P. Arnold, co-principal investigator and p...

This was Johnson’s second summer at the site. Last year, the Illinois resident learned the fundamentals of archaeology by excavating the site using ground-penetrating radar, digging and recording units, and mapping. For the past three semesters, he spent time in the Lyman Hall archaeology lab cataloging and researching some of the artifacts students collected there. This June, Johnson returned as part of another student team to collect samples from the excavation. The oldest of those found dates...

At Syracuse University, some of the most valuable classroom instruction is based not on a textbook but on decades spent solving real problems in the field. Professors of practice bring that kind of expertise directly to students, translating professional experience into lessons that go beyond theory. Nearly 100 professors of practice across the University represent one of the most direct ways Syracuse connects academic learning to the industry. That connection is central to experiential inquiry,...

Several factors shape how people bond with a beloved place, whether it’s a childhood hometown or a vacation spot. Usually those locations are physical ones, but with increasingly realistic digital and online worlds that can be accessed from almost anywhere, virtual spaces can easily keep pace in creating those deep connections. That’s why some people feel so gratified playing a favorite video game like World of Warcraft, become immersed in Gotham City streetscapes watching a Batman movie, or get...

Millions of soccer players across the globe compete on surfaces that are anything but the manicured, perfectly marked grounds of televised competitions. Student researcher Abdulai Jibril Barrie ’26 understood that across West Africa and in many other countries, soccer (known throughout much of the world as football) is played on compacted sand, gravel lots, dirt patches and worn urban grounds. The industrial and interaction design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) also rec...

On Aug. 8, 2023, the town of Lāhainā, in West Maui, Hawaii, was consumed by one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. The result: more than 2,000 acres burned, 12,000 residents displaced and 102 people killed. Despite the devastation and ongoing community grief, Hawaii’s governor reopened West Maui to tourists just two months later. That decision sparked significant controversy and spurred thousands of residents and Native Hawaiians to political action. They wanted fire victims to have mor...

Are you interested in knowing how living cells function? Do you wonder how scientists grow human tissues in the lab? Have you pondered how robots are programmed to work? If science piques your interest, delve into the topic at the BioInspired Institute research symposium Oct. 19 and 20 at the Life Sciences Complex. During two days of talks, poster sessions and presentations, the symposium will showcase the work of undergraduate and graduate students, doctoral associates and faculty affiliated with the University-based research institute. d in knowing how living cells function? Do you wonder how scientists grow human tissues in the lab? Have you pondered how robots are programmed to work? If science piques your interest, delve into the topic at the BioInspired Institute research symposium Oct. 19 and 20 at the Life Sciences Complex.

While the majority of climate change research focuses on reducing and capturing carbon dioxide, less attention has been paid to methane emissions, despite the gas having 30 times the warming effect. Over a quarter of the United States’ total methane emissions are derived from enteric fermentation (cow burps) alone. Emerging research finds that feeding certain species of algae (seaweed, kelp or microalgae) to cattle can reduce their methane emissions by 80 to 99%. Unfortunately, most farmers and bovine nutritionists are unfamiliar with algae-based feed supplements, and the supplements are not always available and can be expensive.

Connections is published once a year by the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, 343 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 4...

Connections is published once a year by the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, 343 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 4...