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Arts & Culture

DK Summer Institute Focuses on Knowledge Production to Create More ‘Just Academy’

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin

LeConté Dill’s grandparents were part of the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West, where, during the 1940s, they put down roots in South Los Angeles. Today, the once-vibrant neighborhood is plagued…

Arts & Culture

Recent CRS Alumnus Wins National M.A. Thesis of the Year Award

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Erica Blust

Joe Hatfield, who graduated from the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies’ (CRS) master of arts (M.A.) program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts last May, is the 2016 recipient of the M.A. Thesis of the Year Award…

Arts & Culture

Architecture’s Undergraduate, Graduate Programs, Dean Honored by DesignIntelligence

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Elaine Wackerow

The School of Architecture undergraduate program has been ranked #3 in the nation and the graduate program as #8 by DesignIntelligence. In addition, Dean Michael A. Speaks was selected as one of “25 Most Admired Educators.”

Media, Law & Policy

Avoiding Conflicts By Improving Cultural Understanding

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

When the Red Cross sent food to drought- and conflict-ravaged Somalia, military personnel distributed the supplies on a first-come, first-served basis. People who didn’t receive food responded by starting a riot. “The military didn’t understand that the local politics of…

Arts & Culture

Women’s & Gender Studies to Host Alumni Panel Discussion Oct. 20

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Two alumni of the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) will return to campus to share their professional experiences. Brittany Brathwaite ’13, co-founder and chief innovation officer of the social start-up KIMBRITIVE, and Erin Carhart ’14, manager of youth…

STEM

Theoretical Physicist Elected American Physical Society Fellow

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Professor of Physics Simon Catterall was recently elected as an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. The APS Division of Computational Physics nominated Catterall for his contributions to lattice field theory, a framework used to explore how subatomic particles interact, yielding…

Arts & Culture

Billboard Lists Bandier Program Among Top Elite Music Business Schools

Monday, October 17, 2016, By Erica Blust

Syracuse University and its Bandier Program were listed by Billboard as among the “12 Elite Music Business Schools Shaping the Industry’s Future.” Billboard describes the featured schools as “drawing students ready to face the demands of the 21st-century music industry.”…

Health & Society

BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for Southeast ADA Center

Monday, October 17, 2016, By Robert Conrad

Based in Atlanta, the Southeast ADA Center provides information, training and guidance about the ADA throughout the eight-state Southeast region.

STEM

Sixth Annual It Girls Retreat Brings 94 High Schoolers to Campus

Friday, October 14, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly led an information technology pep rally recently at a dinner for 94 potential School of Information Studies (iSchool) students. “You’ve all made a really great choice to come to the It Girls retreat because…

STEM

Multidisciplinary Team Wins NSF Award to Study Distributed Energy Markets

Friday, October 14, 2016, By J.D. Ross

As the traditional, centralized way of producing and distributing electricity gives way to a future of decentralized, “smart” energy production and consumption, policymakers, producers and regulators must understand the security and privacy risks inherent in “distributed” energy production and in…