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Privacy Protection vs. Accurate Advertising – The Battle for Digital Revenue

Thursday, January 31, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Apple has pulled the plug on Facebook’s distribution of an app that paid users to track detailed phone and web usage. It’s another sore spot for the social media giant, which has faced growing scrutiny in past months over user…

Campus & Community

Register Now for Spring Technology Accessibility Training Workshops

Tuesday, January 29, 2019, By Christopher C. Finkle

Information Technology Services (ITS) is accepting registrations for training workshops that will build faculty and staff awareness of, sensitivity to and proficiency in ensuring the accessibility of information communications and technologies. The workshops will help participants understand accessibility, put it…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Architecture Plans Schoolwide Lunar New Year 2019 Celebration

Monday, January 28, 2019, By Julie Sharkey

This week, a quarter of the world’s population is preparing to celebrate the Year of the Pig with feasts, gift-giving and good wishes. Lunar New Year—the longest and among the most important celebrations in Asia—begins on Feb. 5 and ends…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Architecture Announces Spring 2019 Visiting Critics

Tuesday, January 22, 2019, By Julie Sharkey

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Four studios will be held this spring. James Leng (Boghosian Fellow 2018–2019) Leng will teach the…

Syracuse Doctoral Student Earns LIGO Inaugural Award in Detector Characterization

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By Carol Boll

Derek Davis had not been on the Syracuse University campus more than a week in 2015 before being swept up in the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that would thrill the astrophysics world and thrust the gravitational-wave research community onto…

Accessible Technology Webinar Series Begins Thursday

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By News Staff

The Southeast ADA Center, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, is co-hosting a free 2019 Accessible Technology Webinar Series. The kick-off webinar, “Accessibility and Inclusion in K-12 Computer Science (CS) Education: Meeting the Needs of Students…

STEM

Demonstrating Green Building Technologies in China

Thursday, January 10, 2019, By Jay Cox

When College of Engineering and Computer Science Professor Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang set out to develop a software platform that would integrate and optimize the design of green buildings, little did he know it would lead to an international collaborative project…

The Guardian

Environmental Rollbacks Aim to Protect Coal Power

Friday, December 28, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Charles Driscoll, University Professor of Environmental Systems and Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was interviewed by The Guardian for an article about rolling back toxic mercury pollution standards. The move by the Trump administration is part of a…

STEM

Physicist Applies Nanotechnology to Detect Protein-Protein Interactions

Monday, December 10, 2018, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences hopes to improve cancer detection with a new and novel class of nanomaterials. Liviu Movileanu, professor of physics, creates tiny sensors that detect, characterize and analyze protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in blood…

Media Tip Sheets

More States Likely to Embrace Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

This week, Ohio became the first U.S. state to accept bitcoin for tax payments from businesses. Eventually, the payment form will be open to individual filers as well. Could more states follow suit in embracing the cryptocurrency as a legitimate…