SU in the News: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Fox News reported on research from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on potential terrorism cases not being fully prosecuted.

Jeffrey Stonecash, professor of political science in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in a Philadelphia Daily News column about political polarization.

Network Computing reported on the construction of the Green Data Center at the University.

Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was mentioned in a Baltimore Sun blog about the release of Sarah Palin’s new book.

The Rome Sentinel reported briefly on SU’s Yellow Ribbon Education Enhancement Program offering higher education benefits to post-9/11 servicemen and women and dependents.

SU was mentioned in a WSYR-AM interview with Wayne State University’s chairman of the board on the issue of accessibility in Amazon Kindle e-readers. InsideHigherEd.com mentioned SU in the context of a news brief announcing that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will not make the Kindle available to students until the device has improvements to better enable visually impaired persons to use it.

Sean Kirst’s Post-Standard column today focused on the recent and proposed changes at E.S. Bird Library.