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New York Times

Syracuse Social Media Experts on Memes, the White House, and Society

Saturday, January 6, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

While many find humor in memes and fake news surrounding President Trump’s Gorilla Channel story, two Syracuse professors, Jennifer Grygiel of the Newhouse School and Jennifer Stromer-Galley of the iSchool, explained to the New York Times how it shows larger…

Media, Law & Policy

WAER’s ‘City Limits’ Project Examines Syracuse’s Alarming Poverty Rate

Wednesday, January 3, 2018, By News Staff

WAER Public Media recently launched “City Limits,” a year-long audio journalism project that examines the living and socio-economic conditions behind the alarming poverty rate in Syracuse. According to the U.S. Census Report, Syracuse’s poverty rate was the 13th worst in…

Arts & Culture

Society for New Music Premieres ‘Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage’ Jan. 21 at OnCenter

Friday, December 22, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Opera about Lesser-Known Suffragist Has Strong Ties to University, Central New York

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Alumni in the Social Space

Wednesday, December 20, 2017, By News Staff

As part of the Newhouse in New York semester, Newhouse School students have the opportunity to hear from various alumni throughout the communications industry–which now especially includes social media. Many students hope to graduate and one day work for major social platforms…

Media, Law & Policy

Making the Unthinkable Understandable: New Course Trains Students to Understand and Respond to Atrocities

Wednesday, December 20, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Uncovering and communicating the truths about human conflict, human suffering and human rights violations is a complicated but vitally important task that often falls to those who write the “first rough draft of history”—that is, journalists operating on the front…

STEM

Physicist Marchetti Named to Commission on Statistical Physics

Tuesday, December 19, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Distinguished Professor M. Cristina Marchetti has been elected to the Commission on Statistical Physics as part of a select group of international scientists. The Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics…

Health & Society

Q&A: Ph.D. Candidate Tamara Issak on Islamophobic Rhetoric

Tuesday, December 19, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

Tamara Issak is a graduate student pursuing her doctorate in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Arts and Sciences. It’s the next step in the New Jersey native’s academic…

Veterans

Veterans Express Themselves in Writing Group

Tuesday, December 19, 2017, By Amy Manley

Once a month, veterans meet in the Syracuse University Writing Center to share stories of their armed service experience and learn how to craft those narratives into more polished written works.

Business & Economy

NYSSTLC Helps Biotech Firm Traverse Commercialization’s ‘Valley of Death’

Thursday, December 14, 2017, By Martin Walls

The realm of technology commercialization is fond of its geographical metaphors. Researchers and entrepreneurs who seek to make their discoveries commercially viable talk of intellectual property “landscapes,” “routes” or “paths” to market, as well as technical and regulatory “milestones.” But…

Campus & Community

University Endorses Learning Outcomes Assessment to Ensure Academic Program Accountability, Excellence

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, By Carol Boll

Four years ago, math Professor Terry McConnell was asked to participate in a series of meetings with faculty to help advance a campuswide culture of assessment and allay any concerns about a Universitywide move toward student learning assessment. McConnell didn’t…