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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…

Campus & Community

Rachel Vassel Named New Assistant Vice President of Program Development

Friday, October 14, 2016, By News Staff

Chief Advancement Officer and Senior Vice President Matt Ter Molen announced today the appointment of Rachel Vassel ’91 as the new assistant vice president of program development in the Division of Advancement and External Affairs (AEA). Vassel begins in her…

Media, Law & Policy

Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian to Be Honored with Tully Free Speech Award

Thursday, October 13, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School will honor Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days, with the 2016 Free Speech Award. The award is given annually to a journalist…

Campus & Community

Doing Assessment as if Teaching and Learning Matter Most

Thursday, October 13, 2016, By News Staff

The Office of the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Tom Angelo will be presenting Friday, Oct. 14: Doing Assessment as if Teaching and Learning Matter Most To some degree, assessment will always be a bureaucratic…

STEM

Duncan Brown to Be Inducted as Inaugural Brightman Endowed Professor Oct. 20

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating the appointment of Duncan Brown as the inaugural Charles Brightman Professor of Physics. A world-renowned expert in gravitational-wave astronomy and astrophysics, Brown will be honored by Syracuse on Thursday, Oct. 20, in…

Campus & Community

Celebrating Disability Awareness Month

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By Neema Amadala

Throughout October, the Disability Cultural Center will be cohosting workshops, conversations and activities in partnership with other administrative units, student organizations, and academic programs across campus, as well as with the Syracuse Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Campus & Community

Screening and Panel Discussion of Documentary ‘At the Fork’

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By News Staff

Sustainability Management and student groups Students of Sustainability, Green Peace SU and BrainFeeders will sponsor a free screening of the new documentary “At the Fork” on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Grant Auditorium, in White Hall, Falk College….

Campus & Community

Campus Framework Advisory Group Adds New Members for Next Phase of Planning Process

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By News Staff

For the past two years, members of the Campus Framework Advisory Group have been hard at work helping to guide the planning and design needed to transform the University’s landscape. The group has facilitated surveys, participated in countless listening sessions…

STEM

Wang to Discuss Drone Privacy Issues at FTC Workshop Thursday

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By J.D. Ross

As the technology has improved for unmanned aerial drones over the past several years, they have become more popular with, and accessible to, the general public. With this growth has come the need for regulation, both for operation of the…

Arts & Culture

Accomplished Poet Paisley Rekdal Speaking Wednesday for Carver Series

Tuesday, October 11, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

Paisley Rekdal is the next speaker in the Raymond Carver Reading Series, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in Gifford Auditorium. She will participate in a Q&A at 3:45 p.m., and will read from her work at 5:30 p.m. The event—presented by…