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Designing the Street Smart Phone

Monday, April 15, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Meet the “smarter” New York City payphone. The push buttons and coin slot of the past are inevitably replaced with a touch screen and card swipe, plus camera, solar panels and capabilities for emergency alerts and wayfinding.

Museum Studies Students Collaborate on New Park Exhibition

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Erica Blust

Graduate museum studies students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) have collaborated with the Stewards of Lipe Art Park (SLAP) in Syracuse on a new outdoor art exhibition that examines the evolving identity of the city of…

Five Candidates to Receive Honorary Degrees at 159th Commencement Exercises

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The five 2013 honorary degree candidates are: Alan Gerry, Judith S. Kaye, Commencement speaker Nicholas Kristof, Wangarai Muta Maathai (posthumously), and Charles Payne ’70.

Directors Headline Experimental Film Series at SU, University of Rochester

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Program celebrates experimental film of past and present Independent filmmakers Morgan Fisher and Kevin Jerome Everson are among those scheduled to participate in a new screening series, taking place at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester. The CNYX screening…

Campus & Community

Spring 2013 Academic and Administrative Buildings Evacuation Drills

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Environmental Health and Safety Services Office (EHSS) will conduct the spring 2013 evacuation drills in academic and administrative buildings from April 22 through April 26. The building drills will be conducted in the morning between 9:30-11:30 a.m. or in…

Professor, Author George Saunders Wins PEN/Malamud Award

Monday, April 8, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Award comes amid success of Saunders’ ‘Tenth of December’ George Saunders G’88, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive the prestigious PEN/Malamud Award. Given annually since 1988 in honor of the late…

Take a Musical Journey to the South in ‘Violet’

Monday, April 8, 2013, By News Staff

Violet Karl has lived in her “stupid” town of Spruce Pine, N.C., her entire life, and she’s ready for a change. Bearing a facial scar accidentally left by her father at a young age, Violet sets off on a bus…

Students Continue to Lead White Ribbon Campaign on Campus

Monday, April 8, 2013, By News Staff

The Division of Student Affairs continues its on-campus efforts to support the 19 annual Vera House White Ribbon Campaign, led by student co-chairs, Ashlee Newman and Paul Ang. Wearing a white ribbon or wristband during this campaign period makes an…

International Exchange: Cultivating Fulbright Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Third-year Ph.D. anthropology student Stephen Johnson returned from India last summer knowing that he hadn’t fully explored all of his questions for his Ph.D. topic on the relationship between Tibetan refugees and Indian communities.

Now he has another opportunity—and a prestigious, international distinction that has made it possible.

STEM

Research Shows Potential for Quasicrystals

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

Ever since their discovery in 1984, the burgeoning area of research looking at quasiperiodic structures has revealed astonishing opportunities in a number of areas of fundamental and applied research, including applications in lasing and sensing. Quasiperiodic structures, or quasicrystals, because…