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Campus & Community

Additional Guidance on COVID-19 Planning and Response

Wednesday, March 11, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: Yesterday, Syracuse University announced that at the end of the academic day on Friday, March 13, we will suspend residential academic instruction until at least March 30 and transition to a distance-based approach…

WBT Radio (Charlotte)

“Coronavirus Affecting Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune.”

Tuesday, March 10, 2020, By Lily Datz

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of radio, television and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was interviewed by WBT Radio (Charlotte) for the story “Coronavirus Affecting Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune.” Thompson,…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University to Suspend Academic Program in Madrid

Monday, March 9, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: This afternoon we learned that Spain’s national government and Madrid regional authorities made the decision to close all schools and universities in the country’s capital beginning Wednesday, March 11, to prevent the further…

Campus & Community

Two New Librarians Join Syracuse University Libraries

Monday, March 9, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries recently appointed two new librarians: Winn Wasson, social science librarian reporting to Anne Rauh, and Chelsea Hoover, catalog librarian reporting to Robert Cleary. Wasson joined the Department of Research and Scholarship as a liaison librarian for the…

Campus & Community

Mechanical Engineering Student Helps Start ‘A Hand for Wuhan’ Fundraiser

Monday, March 9, 2020, By Chris Barbera

After learning from Chinese social media about a shortage of medical supplies in the Chinese province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak, mechanical engineering student Ruohan Xu did what good engineers do when they see a problem: He designed…

Arts & Culture

Communications Design Students Selected as Graphic Design USA ‘Students to Watch’

Saturday, March 7, 2020, By Erica Blust

Fatima Al Khaldi and Sarah Noll, senior communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, were selected and featured as 2020 “Students to Watch” in Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) Magazine. Each year, GDUSA selects…

Campus & Community

Creating Just Futures with Restorative Justice

Saturday, March 7, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Update: The remainder of the March 9-13 public activities have been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories. The notion of restorative justice has a long legacy that traces back to Native and Afrocentric communities. The process involves…

Campus & Community

Extensive Discussions Conclude in Crouse-Hinds Hall

Saturday, March 7, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Last night, University leaders and the students protesting in Crouse-Hinds Hall completed the last of four agreed upon engagement sessions, which accounted for more than 14 hours of dialogue beginning on Monday, March 2. Although…

Wired

Is TikTok’s Algorithm Unconsciously Biased?

Friday, March 6, 2020, By Hailey Womer

Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communication, culture and digital technologies, was quoted in a Wired story “Why is TikTok creating filter bubbles based on your race?” In the article, Phillips discusses how users tend to replicate the identity in…

Miami Herald
The National Interest

How to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus

Friday, March 6, 2020, By Hailey Womer

Brittany Kmush, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at Falk College, was quoted in the Miami Herald story “Worried about coronavirus in Miami? This is what you can do to prepare for it” and the National Interest story…