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Campus & Community

’Cuse Cast for Week of Dec. 4

Monday, December 4, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Jonathan Singh G’18 anchors this week’s ’Cuse Cast from in front of Hinds Hall, the home of the iSchool, where he has details on two big events happening at the School of Information Studies.

Business & Economy

Falk Sport Analytics Majors Place First at NYU’s SABR Diamond Dollars Case Competition

Thursday, November 30, 2017, By Margie Chetney

A team representing the Syracuse University Sport Management Baseball Statistics and Sabermetrics Club won the SABR Diamond Dollars Case Competition at NYU earlier this month. Falk College sport analytics majors Justin Perline ’19, CB Garrett ’19, Luke Scheetz ’21, Trevor…

Media, Law & Policy

Expert Commentary: The Implications of Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

Thursday, November 30, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Attorney John Wolohan, a professor of Sports Law in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, is available to speak to the issues surrounding Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on Monday, December 4…

Business & Economy

Blackstone LaunchPad Hosts Syracuse Qualifier for Hult Prize Competition

Thursday, November 30, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Blackstone LaunchPad at Bird Library will host a Dec. 11 campus qualifier for the Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition for the creation of new social businesses. Known as “The Nobel Prize for student startups,” the Hult Prize…

STEM

Physics Alumnus Wins Major Dissertation Award

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, By Rob Enslin

An alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is being recognized by the American Physical Society (APS). Nathan Jurik G’16, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford (U.K.), is the 2018 recipient of the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka…

Campus & Community

Cameron MacPherson Named as University’s First Mitchell Scholar

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

MacPherson is one of only 12 U.S. students selected from more than 300 applicants for the award this year. He will use the award to study intercultural theology at Trinity College, Dublin.

Campus & Community

Syracuse Continues Giving Tuesday Tradition with GivingCUSEday

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, By John Boccacino

Giving Tuesday—the Tuesday following Thanksgiving—is a global day of giving, a day when the world comes together to support causes we truly value. Because Syracuse University holds such a special place in the hearts of so many people, SU has…

Arts & Culture

New Biography ‘A Swoony Valentine’ to Joni Mitchell

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

A review in The Nation magazine calls David Yaffe’s new biography about the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell “a swoony valentine to Mitchell, or at least to the effect that her music can have on the spirit.” Yaffe is unapologetic about…

BBC Earth

Biology Expert Details Whale Research

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Susan Parks, an Associate Professor in the Biology department of the College of Arts and Sciences, does unique research with some of the biggest animals on Earth, whales that roam beneath the ocean’s surface. She was featured in a BBC…

Business & Economy

Impact Prize Winners Announced

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A panel of area civic leaders this week announced the winners of the first Impact Prize competition at Syracuse University. Winners were selected for the most innovative and implementable ideas to help solve civic, environmental, economic or other public challenges,…