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Campus & Community

Fake News and Considering What’s True Are Topics of Dec. 7 Interfaith Dinner Dialogue

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The University’s fall 2017 Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the “Hidden” Things that Divide Us, will continue on Thursday, Dec. 7. The dialogue, on “Is All News Fake? The Future of Truth,” will…

Campus & Community

University Joins National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University this month formally joined the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), a membership-only organization that gives faculty, graduate and postdoctoral scholars access to tools and services designed to enhance productivity and career success. Founded in 2010,…

STEM

SU ADVANCE Generates Gains for Women in STEM

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Carol Boll

On Oct. 25, members of Syracuse University faculty, administrators, students and friends gathered to celebrate the progress achieved by a seven-year initiative to advance opportunity for women faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The National Science Foundation’s…

STEM

Physics Ph.D. Student Builds Successful Research Company

Tuesday, November 21, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

Aaron Wolfe expects to finish up his Ph.D. in physics this semester. He has been working on his doctorate since 2011 and should have been done by now, he says, but a few things have gotten in the way—like helping…

STEM

Physicist Seeks Big Answers from Tiny Particles

Monday, November 20, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

A large National Science Foundation (NSF) grant allows Mitchell Soderberg, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, to lead a team researching particle physics in the ongoing quest to explain how the universe works. Soderberg’s research involves measuring how…

Huffington Post

Expert Burman Discusses Proposed Tax Plan

Sunday, November 19, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

President Trump’s new tax plan has an air of simplicity to it, though for some, it will usher in higher costs. And, as the plan shows, these costs would be focused less from the higher class, and more towards the…

Business & Economy

Impact Prize Winners Announced

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A panel of area civic leaders this week announced the winners of the first Impact Prize competition at Syracuse University. Winners were selected for the most innovative and implementable ideas to help solve civic, environmental, economic or other public challenges,…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell X Lab Innovates Policymaking through Behavioral Science

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Kimberly Bliss

How can behavioral science help high school students increase their chances of going to college? How can an underutilized healthcare program for low-income people better target its communications so that people who need it know of its availability and use…

Media, Law & Policy

Inaugural Otey and Barbara Scruggs Graduate Scholars Named

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Edy Semaan

The Maxwell School has named two graduate students as the inaugural Otey and Barbara Scruggs Graduate Scholars:  John R. Barruzza, a Ph.D. candidate in the history department; and Chelsea M. Thomas, a student in the master of public administration (M.P.A.)…

Media, Law & Policy

Model UN Team Named Distinguished Delegation at D.C. Conference

Thursday, November 16, 2017, By Dana Cooke

A Syracuse University/Maxwell School team participating in the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference earlier this month was named a “Distinguished Delegation” (the second-highest award) for its portrayal of the Republic of Finland/Suomi. The conference, held in Washington, D.C., drew…