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A&S Professor Wins National Nuclear Physicist Award

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Paul Souder, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, is the co-recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Award from Jefferson Science Associates (JSA). He shares the award with Douglas Beck, professor of physics at the University…

iSchool and IBM Host zEnterprise Summer Seminar

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University and IBM’s System z Academic Initiative co-hosted the zEnterprise Summer Seminar at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) earlier this month. This three-day seminar, held June 3-5, brought together IBM employees and college educators from across North America…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…

Registration Open for New Librarianship MOOC

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has opened registration for its second massive open online course (MOOC), the “New Librarianship Master Class.” “The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet,”…

Business & Economy

Desire, Resources for Self-Employment Grow with Age, Says Whitman Study

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By News Staff

Starting a business is no longer a “young person’s game,” according to new research by Maria Minniti, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Minniti and her co-authors, professors Teemu Kautonen and Simon Down of Anglia Ruskin…

Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz Named Interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs

Friday, June 7, 2013, By News Staff

Chancellor Nancy Cantor today named Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs at Syracuse University. Kantrowitz, currently Associate Vice President for Inclusion, Community and Citizenship within SU’s Division of Student Affairs, will succeed Thomas V….

STEM

Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…

Newhouse School to Name Dick Clark Studios After Legendary Icon and Alumnus

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The $18 Million state-of-the-art studio will be completed in Fall 2014.

Cold Case Justice Initiative at Syracuse University launches Five Cities Project this summer

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, By Scott McDowell

The Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at Syracuse University has announced in Atlanta that it is launching its Five Cities Project this summer. Its student workers will be sent into five southern cities to begin to take a full accounting of racially motivated killings that may have occurred during the period between 1955 and 1980.

National Consumer Health Website Has iSchool Project Roots

Thursday, May 30, 2013, By Diane Stirling

Given limited access to information on medical procedure costs and insurance company reimbursements, Americans have long had difficulty assessing the potential cost of their health care options. However, a complex team project administered by School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant…