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Orange Circle Awards to Be Presented April 2

Thursday, March 27, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

During Syracuse University’s Philanthropy Week (http://giving.syr.edu/special-groups/students/philanthropy-week/), three individuals and one group will be recognized with the Orange Circle Award, honoring members of the SU community who have done extraordinary things in the service of others. The awards will be given…

Digitas’ Lina Josephson ’11 will visit Newhouse April 7

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Lina Josephson ’11, associate media planner at Digitas Boston, will visit the Newhouse School on Monday, April 7, as a guest of Job Market Speaker Series, part of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. She will speak on “A Journey from…

Campus & Community

International Masterclass in Physics Rescheduled for March 28

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Keith Kobland

More than 20 local high school students will participate in an International Masterclass on particle physics in The College of Arts and Sciences on March 28 that has been rescheduled from March 12. Students will meet in SU’s Physics Building…

STEM

SU Biologists Use Sound to Identify Breeding Grounds of Endangered Whales

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Remote acoustic monitoring among endangered whales is the subject of a major article by two doctoral students in The College of Arts and Sciences. Leanna Matthews and Jessica McCordic, members of the Parks Lab in the Department of Biology, have…

STEM

Faculty Member a Judge for IBM’s Master the Mainframe Competition

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will be involved in an innovative IBM academic initiative, as one of its faculty members participates as a judge for the technology firm’s “Master the Mainframe World Championship” programming competition for young innovators. One…

Campus & Community

‘Tomorrow Happens Here’: The Experience of SXSW

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive is the place to be to find out “what’s next” in creative content and digital technologies. “I always loved the old SXSW tagline: ‘Tomorrow Happens Here,’ and it still feels true,” says Sean Branagan, director…

Making an Impact for Children’s Education

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Aysha A. Seedat ’16 has always been interested in public policy and politics but it was the required first-year writing course that decided her future.

Patricia Betron ’88, ESPN Senior VP of Multimedia Sales, to Speak at Whitman

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, By News Staff

Patricia Betron ’88, ESPN’s senior vice president of multimedia sales, will speak at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management on Thursday, March 20, at 12:30 p.m. in the Marvin and Helaine Lender Auditorium. The event is free and open…

Campus & Community

Maxwell School Names Prominent Public Policy Scholar to Moynihan Chair

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, By News Staff

Amy Ellen Schwartz, an internationally renowned scholar of education policy, public finance and urban economics, will join the Maxwell School this fall as Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs. Schwartz, a professor of public policy, education, and economics at…

Student’s Company Offers Strategies for Social Television

Tuesday, March 11, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Melanie Witkower ’14 was interning at a television production company last spring when she noticed a better way to connect a show’s production with fans online. Witkower now has a company that links the small screen with its life in social media and the fans that make it a hit.