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Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School to Participate in Groundbreaking Training Initiative on Drone Journalism

Tuesday, January 31, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School of Public Communications will be one of four schools nationwide to host an innovative new program to train journalists in the use of drones, or unmanned aerial systems, for news coverage. The program was developed by the…

Health & Society

King’s 1965 Speech in Sims Hall Still Inspires

Monday, January 30, 2017, By Sean Kirst

For Fern Durand, one conversation last week turned a familiar corridor turned into something else. He was in the Shaffer Arts Building, walking past the SUArtGalleries, when a stranger approached him and asked if he knew this story: In 1965,…

Media, Law & Policy

Sportscaster Dave O’Brien ’86 Treasures Chance to Live His Dream

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By John Boccacino

Dave O’Brien ’86 often fell asleep listening to radio broadcasts of his beloved Boston Red Sox, typical behavior for a sports-loving boy growing up in Massachusetts. Devoted baseball fans, O’Brien and his father, Robert, spent many afternoons watching the Red…

STEM

Physicist to be Recognized by National Academy of Sciences

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is being recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his “outstanding leadership” of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration. Peter R. Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…

Campus & Community

New Campus Facilities Advisory Board Created, Membership Announced

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By News Staff

Michele G. Wheatly, vice chancellor and provost, and Pete Sala, vice president and chief facilities officer, will co-chair a new Campus Facilities Advisory Board, Provost Wheatly announced at the January 18 University Senate meeting. Professor Cathryn Newton, special advisor to…

Christian Science Monitor

Assoc. Professor Sarah Pralle discusses the politicization of climate change science

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School, was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor for the article Decrying ‘post-truth’ climate politics, scientists test activist waters

Veterans

Tillman Scholars Applications Now Open

Wednesday, January 25, 2017, By News Staff

The application process for the Tillman Scholars program, which funds education for student veterans and spouses of veterans, will open Feb. 1. The scholarship honors Pat Tillman. In 2002, Tillman, a starting safety for the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals,…

Arts & Culture

Raymond Carver Reading Series Continues This Semester with Six Authors

Wednesday, January 25, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

The spring-semester lineup for the 2016-17 Raymond Carver Reading Series begins with author Eleanor Henderson on Wednesday, Feb. 1. All events in the series take place in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall’s Gifford Auditorium, with a Q&A at 3:45 p.m. and…

The Christian Science Monitor

Roy Gutterman, Director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, on White House’s Relationship with the Press

Tuesday, January 24, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor for the article What Sean Spicer’s first news conference tells us about White House press relations under Trump

Arts & Culture

Alumni Release Album—on a Can of Beer

Tuesday, January 24, 2017, By News Staff

Musician and Newhouse School graduate Adam Ritchie ’03 was looking for a unique way to release the new album from his band, The Lights Out. Of course, digital and retro vinyl were options, but he and fellow Syracuse University graduate…