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Media, Law & Policy

Student Journalist Participates in Mock Deposition for Communication Law Class

Tuesday, October 17, 2023, By News Staff

Newhouse School of Public Communications student Dominic Chiappone ’24 defended an article he wrote for The Daily Orange in a class exercise designed to simulate a deposition a journalist could face if sued for defamation. The mock deposition was part…

Campus & Community

Rose-Laying Ceremony and Remembrance Scholar Convocation to Be Held Friday

Monday, October 16, 2023, By News Staff

The annual Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The convocation will be preceded by the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony at 2:03 p.m….

Campus & Community

Grants from the Engaged Humanities Network Support 11 Community-Oriented Projects

Friday, October 13, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Sports teams that succeed are those that feature athletes who work well together and bring different skills to the field. Humanities scholarship is no different. When College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement Brice Nordquist founded the Engaged…

Campus & Community

Libraries Shares Recommended Reading and Resources for LGBTQ History Month

Friday, October 13, 2023, By News Staff

LGBTQ History Month was created in 1994 by Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school history teacher. In 1995, the General Assembly of the National Education Association passed a resolution that stated a list of commemorative months, which included LGBTQ History…

Media, Law & Policy

Public Voices Fellowship Supports Maxwell Professor’s AI Research

Friday, October 13, 2023, By News Staff

Baobao Zhang, assistant professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received the 2023-24 Public Voices Fellowship on Technology in the Public Interest to explore attitudes and policy related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology….

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School to Host Panel Discussion on Israel-Hamas War

Friday, October 13, 2023, By News Staff

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs’ Middle Eastern Studies Program will host a webinar titled “The Israel-Hamas War: What Is Happening and What Might Happen Next?” on Tuesday, Oct. 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m. ET. Interested students,…

STEM

The BioInspired Institute’s Growth Helps Fuel Student and Faculty Research (Podcast)

Thursday, October 12, 2023, By John Boccacino

Syracuse University takes great pride in its R1 designation as a world-class leader in research according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. One of the visible examples of how the University is leading the way in research…

Campus & Community

2024 United Way Employee Giving Campaign Officially Kicks Off Oct. 13

Thursday, October 12, 2023, By News Staff

The United Way of Central New York funds 72 different human service programs at 33 local agencies, with every dollar raised remaining in Central New York to help the United Way address various community needs. The University’s employee campaign giving…

STEM

A&S Paleoclimatologists Use Ancient Sediment to Explore Future Climate in Africa

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

In September, extreme rains struck South Africa’s Western Cape province, flooding villages and leaving a trail of destruction. The catastrophic devastation is just one recent example in a string of extreme weather events that are growing more common around the…

Health & Society

‘The First Scramble for Africa’: Maxwell Professor Unearths England’s First Outpost

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, By News Staff

Back in 2019, Syracuse University archaeologist Christopher DeCorse was part of a team that made an unexpected discovery during fieldwork in coastal Ghana. While excavating the ruins of the 17th-century Dutch Fort Amsterdam, the researchers from Syracuse, the University of…