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Setnor’s Opera Theater to Present ‘Dido and Aeneas’ Jan. 23-25

Tuesday, January 20, 2015, By Erica Blust

“Dido and Aeneas” is a masterwork of early Baroque opera. The cast features outstanding young artists from the Setnor School.

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Launches 2015 Spring Symposia

Friday, January 16, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center (HC), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced its 2015 Spring Symposia schedule. Events include the HC Faculty Fellow Symposia, the HC Dissertation Fellow Symposia, the HC Symposia, Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminars…

23/7 Global Founder Mark Weiss ’91 to Speak Jan. 20

Friday, January 16, 2015, By Erica Blust

Mark Weiss ’91, founder of 23/7 Global, will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium (Room 007), located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The talk is part of…

Veterans

IVMF Receives Prudential Grant to Support Veteran Entrepreneurship Training

Friday, January 16, 2015, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families recently received a $350,000 grant from Prudential Financial, Inc., that will help the institute continue to build the Technical Assistance Program for its renowned Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.

Education Professor to Discuss ‘Peaceful at the Core’ Curriculum at Barnes & Noble Jan. 17

Thursday, January 15, 2015, By Jennifer Russo

School of Education Professor Mara Sapon-Shevin has developed a new curriculum to address issues of bullying and to promote a positive social climate in schools. Using children’s literature as the foundation for dialogue, the “Peaceful at the Core” curriculum is…

STEM

Drone Project Takes Flight, Leads to Entrepreneurial Venture

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

A couple of summers ago, Arland Whitfield ’16 stumbled across a YouTube video about drones. It wasn’t long before he knew he had to get airborne.

Campus & Community

TRAC Co-Founder’s Groundbreaking Investigative Books Now Available Digitally

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By Greg Munno

More than three decades ago, Random House published “The Rise of the Computer State,” David Burnham’s prescient book that predicted how computers would soon dominate politics, economics, law enforcement and the basic thinking of the American people. Long before the…

STEM

Research Finds In-Game Rewards Have No Effect on Learning

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By J.D. Ross

New research from School of Information Studies Associate Professor Jenny Stromer-Galley explores the role of in-game rewards and the impact they have on learning in educational games. In a paper set to be published in the April edition of Computers…

Arts & Culture

University Singers to Compete in International Choral Festival

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By Erica Blust

The Syracuse University Singers have been selected to compete in the mixed choir category of Florilège Vocal de Tours, an international choral song competition to be held May 29-31 in Tours, France. The festival will be the centerpiece of the…

STEM

Shining a Light on Quantum Dots Measurement

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By News Staff

Professor Shikha Nangia, in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, and Professor Ari Chakraborty, in the Department of Chemistry collaborated to understand how protein corona forms and what is different about the quantum dot before and after the formation of the corona.