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New Research Unveils how Former Presidential Candidates Failed to Harness Social Media
Jerry Robinson, a PhD candidate at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and researcher with Illuminating 2016, a new project at the iSchool’s Center for Computational and Data Sciences ,tracking the Twitter and Facebook feeds of active presidential campaigns, writes…
Economic Development Leader to Retire from Syracuse University
After nearly a decade serving the University and the Central New York region, Marilyn Higgins, vice president of community engagement and economic development, has announced her plan to retire from Syracuse University this summer. Following her retirement, Higgins will serve…
Connecting Women in Geotechnical Engineering
Professor Shobha K. Bhatia and Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $258,870 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to better connect women faculty in geotechnical engineering. The project, a national collaborative…
Physicist Awarded Grant to Study Interstellar Processes
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant award, supporting his work in experimental astrophysics and surface science. The National Science Foundation has awarded Professor Gianfranco Vidali a three-year, $736,600 grant to study how…
One Year after Death of Rexdale Henry in Mississippi Detention Center Autopsy Report Still Not Released to Family
July 14 marks the one-year anniversary of Rexdale Henry’s death, and the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at Syracuse University’s College of Law continues to demand a full federal inquiry into the circumstances of his demise and delays by the…
Q&A: What’s Behind the Pokémon Go Craze?
They are everywhere. Pikachu and Venusaur and the many characters of Pokémon are taking over virtual spaces and being captured by fans with a smartphone and the downloadable Pokémon Go app by Niantic and Nintendo. The game that uses a…
‘David Falk: Agent of Change’ to air on ESPN2 Tuesday
The documentary “David Falk: Agent of Change,” will air on ESPN2 on Tuesday, July 12, at 8 p.m. In a career spanning five decades, David B. Falk ’72 set the market for how all future sports stars would be compensated….
Acuna Publishes Groundbreaking Chunking Research in Nature Communications
Think about a simple task you learned a long time ago, such as memorizing your phone number or learning how to tie your shoe laces. Chances are, you did this using a method called chunking. You put like things together…
Physicists Discover Family of Tetraquarks
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences have made science history by confirming the existence of a rare four-quark particle and discovering evidence of three other “exotic” siblings. Their findings are based on data from the Large Hadron Collider…
What a Potato Clock Can Teach Us About Fighting Disease
Did you ever make a potato clock as a kid? Did you know that the reaction that makes elementary school potato clocks tick could also fight infection and disease?