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Health & Society

Power and Responsibility—Ethics In Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert Professor Dana Radcliffe says it is also a fitting principle…

STEM

Air Orange Team Competing to Reinvent How We Transmit Wireless Data

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Countless devices are connected through wireless media  and all of those phones, sensors and smart home networks are putting increasing pressure on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Right now, the spectrum is divided into exclusively licensed bands, thus creating enormous…

Business & Economy

Sport Management Professor Receives Grants to Study 2018 Winter Olympics Youth Viewership

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

With final preparations underway for the 2018 Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin Feb. 9  in PyeongChang, South Korea, Falk College Assistant Professor of Sport Management Jamie Jeeyoon Kim is researching the negotiation of motivation and constraints in young people’s decision making…

Washington Post

Humanities Degrees Are Still Necessary

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Gerald Greenberg, associate professor of Russian and Linguistics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Arts and Sciences, talks to the Washington Post on the importance of a humanities degree. “The value of a college education…

STEM

Physicists at Forefront of Multinational Experiment

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continue to make inroads on the world stage. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) group in the Department of Physics recently hosted the 85th Large Hardon Collider beauty (LHCb) Week in Lake Placid,…

Campus & Community

Candlelight Vigil for Mexico and Puerto Rico to be Held at Hendricks Chapel Thursday

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) will hold a candlelight vigil on the steps of Hendricks Chapel on Thursday, Oct. 19, to draw awareness to the continuing earthquake relief efforts in Mexico and hurricane relief…

Campus & Community

Steven J. Bennett Appointed Senior Vice President for Academic Operations

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By News Staff

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly today announced the appointment of Steven J. Bennett to the position of senior vice president for academic operations. As the Office of Academic Affairs continues to lead the implementation of the Academic Strategic Plan,…

Arts & Culture

Hiroshima Survivor to Share Her Experience during University Events

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

School of Architecture Associate Professor Yutaka Sho first met Keiko Ogura in the summer of 2016 in Japan during the SU Abroad travel seminar Design Through a Tourist’s Eye. The seminar focused in part on the way communities remember and…

STEM

Syracuse Architecture, iSchool Faculty Receive NSF Grant for Joint Research on Smart Energy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Elaine Wackerow

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) grant of $99,965 to three Syracuse University faculty/Center of Excellence fellows: iSchool professor Jason Dedrick, principal investigator, and Syracuse Architecture assistant professors Elizabeth Krietemeyer and Tarek Rakha, co-investigators. They…

STEM

Find Out More about the Recent Findings into the Origins of Gold

Monday, October 16, 2017, By News Staff

Professor Duncan Brown Explains Latest Breakthrough Discovery Watch Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics, discuss the latest findings. Peter Saulson: ‘Astronomy Will Never Be the Same’ The Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics, Peter Saulson reflects…