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Fulbright Scholars Find an American Welcome at SU
Dian Purwanti, from Indonesia, was most impressed with the clean tap water. For Cyrille Zongo, from Burkina Faso in West Africa, it was the clean streets. Rawan Badarna, from Palestine, was amazed by the technology and diversity. These bright, motivated…
Varshney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Distinguished Professor Pramod K. Varshney in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded the Yaakov Bar-Shalom Award for Lifetime Excellence in Information Fusion by the International Society of Information Fusion. He received the honor at the University…
Erika Wilkens Named Executive Director of Syracuse Abroad
Syracuse University has announced the appointment of Erika Wilkens as assistant provost and executive director of the University’s Syracuse Abroad program. Wilkens, who has served since last December as special assistant for global engagement to the senior vice president for…
Newhouse Professors Investigate the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on News Audiences
The research project has received funding from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s Knight News Innovation Fellows program. Four professors from the Newhouse School are among a new cohort of Knight News Innovation Fellows, announced recently by the Tow Center…
Excellence Personified
The Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) celebrated the accomplishments of its 2017-18 fellows. The cohort consisted of semesterlong Faculty Fellows as well as yearlong Dissertation Fellows and Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellows. Vivian May, director of the…
ECS Professor Secures Yahoo Donation of Servers for Research Processing
The search to answer research questions through vast amounts of data requires massive amounts of computer server space. Syracuse University has a healthy number of data servers ready to assist researchers, but a recent donation by Yahoo is adding more…
It’s Time for Seniors to Celebrate
Graduating seniors are gearing up for the end-of-year bash: Senior Celebration 2018. On Thursday, May 10, graduating seniors are invited to pack the War Memorial in downtown Syracuse to join together and celebrate their time at Syracuse University. Each year,…
Department of Drama Closes Season with ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
The College of Visual and Performing Arts‘ Department of Drama closes the 17/18 season with the monstrously entertaining musical “Little Shop of Horrors,” running May 4-12 in the Arthur Storch Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee Street,…
Research Profile: Clinical Simulations Put Future Teachers to the Test
Few parents who have spent any time in their children’s classroom would dispute the challenges teachers face in the course of even the most routine day. Whether leading alphabet games with a roomful of exuberant kindergartners or explaining algebraic equations…
How Memes Stir Up Fake News
During Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony, he vowed to fix Facebook’s fake news problem and to help stop the spread of misinformation shared by bots and foreign sources. While this is all well and good, Newhouse assistant professor of communications Jennifer Grygiel…