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Health & Society

School of Education Administrator, Educator Receives Prestigious Award

Thursday, December 17, 2015, By Jennifer Russo

Kathy Hinchman, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Education and professor in the Reading and Language Arts Center, received the Albert J. Kingston Service Award given by the Literacy Research Association (LRA). Formerly the National Reading Conference,…

A Message from Chancellor Kent Syverud

Wednesday, December 16, 2015, By News Staff

December 16, 2015 Dear Parents: Over the last few days, many of you have reached out to me, the Department of Public Safety (DPS), or a member of the University’s leadership team to express your concern about the safety of…

Arts & Culture

Film Student Inspired by Human Connection

Wednesday, December 16, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

While attending college in her home country of Romania, Ioana Turcan G’17 befriended a family of cemetery caretakers. A close-knit group, they welcome her for weekend visits and holidays. They are also Roma. Turcan spent a year documenting them for her film.

Campus & Community

Scholar Spotlight: Ryan Hackett ’16

Wednesday, December 16, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Ryan Hackett, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is a double major in political science and international relations. He was recently selected to represent Syracuse University at the…

Crowston, Østerlund Funded for New NSF Citizen Science Project

Tuesday, December 15, 2015, By Diane Stirling

Two School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members are exploring new ways of combining the efforts of citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms to classify data from a National Science Foundation-funded research initiative called “the most complicated experiment ever undertaken in…

Campus & Community

Listening Session on Diversity and Inclusion Draws Critical Concerns, Ideas for Change

Tuesday, December 15, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Students, faculty and staff shared their experiences with issues of diversity and their ideas for making a better, more inclusive campus during a listening session Dec. 7 in Goldstein Auditorium. More than 100 members of the University community came together…

STEM

iSchool Student Helps Others Understand ‘The Millennial Mindset’

Thursday, December 10, 2015, By Keith Kobland

“Millennials get a bad rap. Lazy, narcissistic, and entitled are adjectives commonly used to describe this new generation of tech-savvy teenagers.” For anyone over 30, those words from Aarick Knighton ’16 may ring true. That’s why Knighton, a student in…

Alumna Interprets Cybersecurity on Capitol Hill

Thursday, December 10, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Jessica Wilkerson ’13, who graduated with a major in  policy studies from the Maxwell School and minors in computer science and mathematics, is watching software envelop the world from an interesting vantage point—atop Capitol Hill. As an oversight associate for…

Arts & Culture

Tom Mason ’01 Teams with Ken Burns for Short Film on Professor, Author George Saunders

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Emily Kulkus

It all came down to just seven minutes. Two hours of interviews, hours upon hours of pre- and post-production—including intricate theatrical staging, lighting and a professional puppeteer—and at least four months of editing. Then a green light from legendary documentary…

STEM

Professor Sheds New Light on Fracking Debate

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Rob Enslin

A professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is shedding new light on an old debate. Donald Siegel, an accomplished hydrologist and geochemist who chairs the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is…