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...

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...

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...

Hunter Pyke ’27 spent four years as a U.S. Marine Corps anti-tank missileman before enrolling at Syracuse University. Matthew Soukup ’27 served 11 years in the Navy as an aviation electronics technician. Varun Gollapudi ’27 was a U.S. Army flight paramedic and now serves as a detachment sergeant for Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment in the Army Reserves. This summer, all three spent eight weeks in research settings studying issues related to the mental health and well-being of veterans j...

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...

A recent major investment in Syracuse University research infrastructure has resulted in the installation of a Zeiss Sigma 360 field emission scanning electron microscope in the University’s Materials Research Core (MRC) facility. The instrument has introduced dramatic new imaging capabilities to researchers at the University and at partner institutions in the region. The new instrument demonstrates the University’s commitment to supporting and enabling cutting-edge research in important fields...

No classroom lecture can replicate the experience of being face-to-face with the evidence of genocide. That’s the premise behind a School of Education (SOE) immersion course that brings students to Washington, D.C., to view historical records, talk with experts in human rights law and policy and worldwide atrocities issues, and experience the visual weight of bearing witness to atrocity crimes. Atrocity Studies and Human Rights is a one-week, intense examination of those topics. It is both a sta...

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...

As a “serial entrepreneur” and interactive marketer, Sean Branagan has applied his expertise in media innovation and technology across varied careers. More recently, he has worked with global audiences in a dozen countries, sharing his knowledge of the creator economy. A 1980 graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Branagan returned to the school in 2011 to found the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and teach media innovation courses. The center runs the Newhouse Start...

The New York State Wastewater Surveillance Network, which began as a pilot project led by Syracuse University faculty member David Larsen in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, will soon support communities nationwide—and potentially around the globe—to detect and minimize the spread of infectious diseases. The network’s expanded reach is the result of its recent designation as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Northeast Region Center of Excellence. The designation recogniz...

Nausheen Husain, whose work examines media coverage of Muslim people and communities and the impact of that coverage, has been selected as the 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. Husain is an assistant professor of magazine, news and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she teaches data and documents journalism. Before joining the University in 2021, she did data reporting and wrote for the Chicago Tribune on state surveillance of Muslim Americans, carceral units targeting Muslims, the 2017 “Muslim Ban,” refugee communities and the government’s historical disinvestment in Chicago’s communities of color.

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.

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.

Yulia Bychkovska was in Boston in February 2022 when Russian missile attacks struck a mostly residential area west of her home in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Though she was in the U.S., she learned of the invasion before her mother. “I had…

Modifying and upgrading building enclosures and mechanical systems in older, multi-family apartment buildings can achieve net-zero energy-use efficiencies and help inhabitants lower energy costs, breathe better air and live more comfortably—changes that have wide application for state and national climate-change efforts, a multidisciplinary team of faculty and student researchers has demonstrated.

Three Syracuse University researchers, supported by a recent $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, are working to refine a clinically intuitive automated system that may improve treatment for speech sound disorders while alleviating the impact of a worldwide shortage of speech-language clinicians. Their system uses the evidence-based Speech Motor Chaining software, an extensive library of speech sounds and artificial intelligence to “think” and “hear” the way a speech-language clinician does.