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Business & Economy

Graduate Students Work to Strengthen Local Economy in Start-Up New York Program

Thursday, July 23, 2015, By News Staff

“Start-Up New York is about the marriage of the community with the businesses and the university. It’s about really finding the right fit in all those different areas: What’s mutually beneficial? What helps the community?” says Olevia Mitchell, a first-year…

Media, Law & Policy

TRAC Research Shows Federal Senior Judges Carry a Growing Workload

Monday, July 13, 2015, By Greg Munno

Nearly a quarter of all civil and criminal cases closed in the nation’s federal district courts last year were handled by senior judges who had retired but decided to keep on working, according to a new study by the Transactional…

Campus & Community

Mike Hopkins Formally Named Men’s Basketball Head Coach-Designate

Thursday, June 25, 2015, By Kevin C. Quinn

Hopkins will succeed Coach Jim Boeheim following the 2017-18 men’s basketball season. In March, Boeheim announced that he will retire in three years.

STEM

Building a Silver Lining for the Cloud

Thursday, June 25, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

The cloud has become a ubiquitous solution for work and for play. Businesses use it to store, access and share data. The average person uses it for email, social networks or to binge-watch “House of Cards” on Netflix. It is…

STEM

Waste Not: Making the Most of Wireless Resources

Thursday, June 25, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Few things are as frustrating as a phone conversation interrupted by a bad signal. It is a perfect example of a technology’s purpose being nullified by its own limitations. Unfortunately, despite advances, this problem hasn’t been entirely addressed and the…

Campus & Community

INSCT, NATO CCDCOE to Host Cyber Espionage Workshop

Wednesday, June 17, 2015, By Martin Walls

Contemporary cyber spies—often under the control of nation states—are just as likely to be plundering the intellectual property and customer information of international businesses as waging covert cyberwar against military enemies. With cyber espionage becoming a growing economic as well…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Students Launch National Publication ‘For Freshmen, by Freshmen’

Tuesday, June 16, 2015, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Content comes from more than 150 contributing writers from about 50 schools across the country, all of them incoming freshmen.

STEM

Physicist Awarded Grant for Quantum Computing Efforts

Thursday, June 11, 2015, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to support his ongoing work in quantum information science. Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, has received a three-year, $900,000 grant award from the Army…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Announces End-of-Year Awards

Wednesday, June 10, 2015, By News Staff

The School of Architecture has announced the end of year awards for 2015. The James Britton awards for best final thesis projects were awarded on May 9 during the convocation ceremony in Hendricks Chapel, and the King + King Prize…

Campus & Community

Remembering Beau Biden L’94

Sunday, May 31, 2015, By News Staff

Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III, a 1994 graduate of the College of Law and the former attorney general of Delaware, died on Saturday at the age of 46.