SU in the News: Tuesday, March 29

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE

National and international coverage of research led by Sheldon Stone, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, on behavior of B meson particles in Large Hadron Collider experiments at the CERN laboratory near Geneva include reports by CBS News, the National Science Foundation, LiveScience, the International Business Times, Science Daily, PhysOrg.com, Cosmos magazine, RedOrbit, Space Daily, ZME Science and e! Science News. Also, stories inYubaNet.com, Physics News, the India Times, Interesting Tech, Nanopatents and Innovations and TipsPad in Hong Kong reported on the research findings which may facilitate further study of matter and antimatter.

The Los Angeles Daily News and an LA Weekly blog posting reported on Syracuse University plans to move and expand the SU in LA facility to Sherman Oaks, providing added space for the University’s immersion programs in the West Coast entertainment industry.

Research by Timothy Korter, associate professor of chemistry in The College of Arts and Sciences, and his team to develop a new technique using light to predict molecular crystal structures, was reported in R&D Magazine, Medical News Today and the EurekAlert! science news service.

American Banking Marketing News and PR.com reported on the Women Veterans Business Resource Center’s planned May conference for women veterans from all branches of the U.S. military–the Women Veterans Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-Wise) Conference–to be held at San Antonio in partnership with the Whitman School of Management and the U.S. Small Business Administration.

SU is mentioned in a Huffington Post story for its support of the recently launched OurAbility.com as a mentoring resource for people with disabilities looking for employment or educational opportunities.

Research by Margaret Hermann, professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, is noted in a New York Times article about psychological profiling of world leaders.

Data from SU’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is cited in a Huffington Post article contrasting immigration prosecutions with treatment of white collar crimes and included in a San Diego Union Tribune story on rates of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing for tax crimes in San Diego.

FACULTY QUOTES

Badi H. Baltagi, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, recently co-authored an article, “Finding Out Why African Banks Lend So Little” with Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades, and David Fielding, published on VoxEU.org.

David Cay Johnston, distinguished visiting lecturer in the College of Law, authored a Tax.com column on trends in tax revenues.

Jeffrey Stonecash, professor of political science in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in a Newsday (registration required) story on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and budget negotiations with state legislators.

Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is quoted in an E! Online story about scandals surrounding the reality TV star of MTV’s “Teen Mom 2” show.

Tina Nabatchi, assistant professor of public administration in the Maxwell School, is quoted in an Auburn Citizen article about citizen participation in Auburn’s search for a city manager.

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