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Syracuse Scholar: Nick Danyluk

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

When the installation of Windows 8 was complete on Nick Danyluk’s laptop, he discovered with disappointment that the interface was geared toward monitors with touch screens, which was not something his computer featured. In this scenario, most people would seek…

Engagement Scholar Program Seeking Candidates

Thursday, October 23, 2014, By News Staff

Undergraduate students graduating in December 2014 or May 2015 can apply to be Entrepreneurship Engagement Scholars or Imagining America Engagement Scholars. The yearlong program supports recent graduates with a strong academic record to become civic-minded professionals or entrepreneurs in Central New…

Carrie Mae Weems Weaves Stories With Her Work in Next University Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Over the past 25 years, Weems has worked toward developing a complex body of art that has at various times employed photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation and video.

Colloquium to Address Feminist Perspectives on Intersectionality, Transnationalism, Decoloniality

Monday, October 20, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

Three experts will speak Friday, Oct. 24, at the Syracuse Symposium™ colloquium “Negotiating Feminist Perspectives: Intersectionality, Transnationalism and Decoloniality.” The free, public event is 12:45-5:15 p.m. in 304ABC, Schine Student Center. There will be light refreshments to start, and CART…

Scholars Announce Activities for 2014 Remembrance Week

Thursday, October 16, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Campus & Community

Purser Wins Award for New Book about On-Demand Labor

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Gretchen Purser, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, has won the 2014 International Book Award from the California Series in Public Anthropology (University of California Press) for her manuscript “Labor On Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor.” Each year…

FNSSI Scientists Awarded National Institute of Justice Grant

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has been on television for nearly 14 years and in that time, has won numerous awards for acting. But Syracuse University has its own cast of forensic characters, and instead of an Emmy award, the Forensic…

SU Champions National Cyber Security Month During October

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Christopher C. Finkle

National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)—observed every October—was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. Here at Syracuse University, Information Technology and…

Media, Law & Policy

Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry Receives $177,060 from NSF

Friday, October 3, 2014, By News Staff

The Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, based in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School, is the host of the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (IQMR).  IQMR has been awarded $177,060 from the National Science…

Nominations Sought for Alumni Awards to Be Bestowed at Orange Central

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Office of Alumni Relations is seeking nominations for the George Arents Award, Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award and the Generation Orange Award. These distinguished alumni awards will be conferred during Orange Central Weekend, Oct. 9-12. Nominations for Orange…