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Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship Nominations Sought

Tuesday, February 16, 2016, By News Staff

Nominations are currently being sought for the 2015-16 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship. Every year, Syracuse University recognizes students, faculty, staff and organizations that have a profound impact on the University and the surrounding community through engagement and…

“The nation has lost a great jurist”

Saturday, February 13, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Legal scholars at Syracuse University offer insight on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. All faculty members are available to comment further. Please contact Robert L. Conrad, Director of Communications at Syracuse University College of Law at 315-443-9536…

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Abolition and the Origins of Sharecropping

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By News Staff

Guest speaker is Melanie Dupuis from the Pace University Department of Environmental Studies and Science will speak on Friday, Feb. 12 at 3 p.m. This free lecture, to be held in Eggers Hall, Room 018,  is a joint event with…

“We have just taken our first look at the Universe in a completely new way”

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse, NY… Scientists in the Department of Physics at Syracuse University have been instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves, confirming a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity. They include Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…

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Call for Poets for Cruel April Poetry Book Fair 2016

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By News Staff

The Point of Contact Gallery is seeking published poets to display and sell their poetry collections at its annual poetry book fair. Poets’ works will be available for purchase throughout the month of April for Point of Contact’s series Cruel…

The Supreme Court’s “Unprecedented Judicial Activism”

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

University Professor David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law, offers an opinion on the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday that put a hold on the Obama’s administration’s Clean Power Plan. “The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling granting a stay of the…

$19 Billion for Cybersecurity: Syracuse University Professor Weighs In

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

On the heels of the White House announcing a Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP), Syracuse University cybersecurity expert Vir V. Phoha, Professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, says that increased funding attention to cybersecurity is a step in the right…

New Hampshire Felt the Bern

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Grant Reeher, Professor of Political Science at Maxwell School at Syracuse University, Director of the Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute, and Host of the Campbell Conversations on WRVO, said that while the Republican race had a few winners and losers from last…

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University Celebrates Black History Month 2016

Tuesday, February 9, 2016, By Gerard McTigue

Throughout the month of February, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), in collaboration with many University partners, will host a number of events in honor of Black History Month. “Each year we are so proud to see the involvement of…