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Can Judges Rule on Gerrymandering and Stay Non-Political?
Professor Keith Bybee, a legal scholar at Syracuse University who studies issues around gerrymandering and perceptions of judicial bias, is available to discuss the legal issues of Benisek v. Lamone which will be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, March…
Jennifer Grygiel, Newhouse Faculty Member, Guest on 1A Discussing Cambridge Analytica
Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications at Newhouse, was a guest on NPR’s 1A show to discuss the latest revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s practice of data harvesting of Facebook users.
After Cambridge Analytica Revelations, Facebook Needs to Be Held Accountable
Facebook’s leadership needs to explain its use of data to lawmakers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Jennifer Grygiel, a social media expert and assistant professor of communications at New Syracuse University, told CBS News on Sunday. Cambridge…
To Take Best Care of Vets, It Will Take More Than Proposed VA Budget Increase
Released this week, President Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2019 proposes an overall increase of more than $8.5 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Nicholas Armstrong is the Senior Director for Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Veterans…
Bend Or Break? ECS 101 Students Test Wood Bridge Designs
Designing a wood bridge is one thing. Actually building it knowing a series of 19-pound weights will be placed on it is another. Teams of first-year students from the College of Engineering & Computer Science in ECS 101 had about a week…
Bridges to Food Quality
As a young man, Minhao Chen G’12 began to notice that something wasn’t right. One by one, family friends in Shanghai were being diagnosed with cancer. By the time he had completed his undergraduate degree in China, five people he knew had…
Engineering Students Compete in Steel Bridge, Concrete Canoe Challenges at ASCE Regional Conference
Syracuse University hosted the 2017 Upstate New York Regional American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Conference from April 20-22. Students from Syracuse University, SUNY Polytech, Clarkson, University of Buffalo, RIT, RPI, Cornell, SUNY Canton, United States Military Academy at West…
Judge Katzmann Visit Postponed Due to Illness
Due to an illness, today’s appearance by Chief Court of Appeals Judge Robert Katzmann as part of the Tully Center for Free Speech lecture series has been postponed. The event will be rescheduled for a later date.
Building Bridges: First CHRONOS Undergraduate History Conference
CHRONOS, The Syracuse University Undergraduate History Journal, organizes a one-day conference on the theme of “Building Bridges” April 7 in the Hall of Languages, Room 500, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Faculty of the Department of History and other departments present…
Environmentalist and Political Activist Winona LaDuke Speaking Wednesday for Democratizing Knowledge Project
The Democratizing Knowledge (DK) Project in the College of Arts and Sciences is presenting “An Evening with Winona LaDuke” on Wednesday, March 29, at 5 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium. A leading environmentalist and political activist, LaDuke is revered for her…