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Campus & Community

Syracuse Abroad Ranked No. 11 Best Study Abroad Program

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, By News Staff

U.S. News & World Report has recently ranked Syracuse Abroad as the No. 11 best study abroad program in the country. In spring 2019, U.S. News asked college presidents, deans and academic officers from more than 1,500 colleges and universities…

Campus & Community

Dupli Announces Online Ordering Improvements; Training Sessions Begin this Week

Monday, November 18, 2019, By Jennifer DeMarchi

Dupli has just completed a major overhaul to its website in order to improve the ordering process for its customers, and launched its new catalog-ordering platform on Nov. 11, 2019. Since becoming the University’s primary printing and mailing distribution center…

Health & Society

Lender Center Names Inaugural Student Fellows

Monday, November 18, 2019, By Maria Damiano

From growing up with social media to using it to uncover social justice trends, a select team of students will be taking part in a two-year collaborative research project as student fellows. The students have been named the first Lender…

Campus & Community

Free Webinar Focuses on Application of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for Mobile Apps

Friday, November 15, 2019, By News Staff

The Southeast ADA Center, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, co-hosts a free Accessible Technology Webinar Series. The next free webinar—Thursday, Nov. 21, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.—is “Mobile Accessibility: Applying WCAG Standards to Mobile Apps” with guest speaker…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse, iSchool Partner to Host a Data-Driven Art Exhibition on Democracy in the Digital Age (Canceled)

Friday, November 15, 2019, By Wendy S. Loughlin

[Update, Nov. 19, 2019: This event has been canceled.] “Democracy in the Digital Age: Does It Exist?” is a data-driven, interactive art exhibition produced by students in the Newhouse School and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) that seeks to…

Veterans

Stories of Service: Adrian Weekly ’20 and Joe Alfieri

Friday, November 15, 2019, By Leah Lazarz

In celebration of Veterans Week 2019, the University is recognizing stories of student veterans and faculty/staff who are veterans or have especially strong connections to the military. These stories are just some of the many from the veteran and military-connected…

STEM

ECS Faculty Awarded $1.4 Million from Energy Department to Advance Building Energy Modeling

Thursday, November 14, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

Two faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) will extend their collaborations to develop an innovative system that improves energy modeling of existing buildings using “aerial intelligence” acquired by drones. Senem Velipasalar, associate professor of electrical…

STEM

Biology Graduate Student Receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Thursday, November 14, 2019, By Diana Napolitano

Julia Zeh is a Ph.D. student in the Bioacoustics and Behavioral Ecology Lab under biology Associate Professor Susan Parks, working on a project that ultimately will contribute to the conservation of endangered whales. Her interest in ecology and animal behavior…

STEM

Forensics and National Security Sciences Institute Develops DNA Tool

Thursday, November 14, 2019, By News Staff

DNA is everywhere—not just in bodily fluids, such as blood or saliva, but also in traces left by the touch of a finger. If more than one person has been sitting at the same table, for example, traces of each…

Health & Society

Water Ambassador Henk Ovink to Present Lecture on Climate Action by Design

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, By Julie Sharkey

The School of Architecture will host Henk Ovink, the world’s only water ambassador, on Wednesday, November 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Fisher Center, for a lecture titled “Climate Action by Design.” A Netherlands native, Ovink has lived his life…