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Tackling IT: An Interview with Orange Defensive Lineman Kingsley Jonathan ’21

Thursday, October 10, 2019, By News Staff

When he’s not on the football field as part of the Syracuse Orange defensive line, Kingsley Jonathan is driven by his passion for technology. “I’ve always had a thing for IT,” Jonathan says. A junior information management and technology major,…

STEM

Hush, Little Baby: Mother Right Whales ‘Whisper’ to Calves

Thursday, October 10, 2019, By Diana Napolitano

On June 20, a whale researchers had named Punctuation was found dead in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, a busy international shipping channel. Punctuation—so named for her comma-shaped scars—was a North Atlantic right whale, a species severely threatened by human…

Health & Society

Advancing Scholarly Inquiry into Connections Between Religion, Spirituality and Social Change

Thursday, October 10, 2019, By Michele Barrett

Approximately one-third of millennials and post-millennials—young adults born 1981 and later—profess to have no connection to religion, according to the Pew Research Center. Yet evidence points to their strengthened humanitarian values and prominent spirituality. The degree to which religion is…

Campus & Community

University Mourns Loss of Harvey Kaiser G’67, G’73, Former Administrator and Faculty Member

Thursday, October 10, 2019, By News Staff

Harvey Kaiser, former vice president for facilities administration and faculty member in the School of Architecture and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 6, after a brief illness. Kaiser played a central role…

Health & Society

EPA’s Move to Overhaul Lead Water Testing Will Help Cities, Says Syracuse Professor

Thursday, October 10, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will be revamping the “Lead and Copper Rule” which is used as test to identify unsafe lead levels in public water systems. Christa Kelleher, assistant professor of earth sciences and civil engineering at…

Mother Jones

The Effect of Media Bias on American Politics

Monday, October 7, 2019, By Hailey Womer

Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was quoted in the Mother Jones story “On Ukraine, It’s Hard to Tell Fox News and 4Chan Apart,” and in…

Politics

Experts Analyze the Presidential Use of Social Media

Monday, October 7, 2019, By Hailey Womer

Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, was interviewed by USA Today for the story “Donald Trump sets Twitter record as White House fights off impeachment inquiry,” by CNN for the article, “Instagram rolls out new feature…

Health & Society

On-Campus Flu Vaccine Clinics Scheduled

Monday, October 7, 2019, By News Staff

The Barnes Center at The Arch and the Office of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Onondaga County Health Department, will continue their partnership to offer free flu vaccines to the Syracuse University community. This year, health care providers from…

Campus & Community

Department of Public Safety Achieves Accreditation for a Second Consecutive Term

Monday, October 7, 2019, By Christine Grabowski

During this year’s International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) annual conference, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) received the IACLEA accreditation for a second consecutive term; the original accreditation was awarded to the department in 2015. DPS was…

Veterans

IVMF, Hillsborough Community College Develop New Program for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, October 2, 2019, By Leah Lazarz

Earlier this semester, Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) expanded its portfolio of veteran transition programs with the launch of STRIVE-Startup Training Resources Inspiring Veteran Entrepreneurship. Developed with insight from IVMF’s leading research and veteran entrepreneurship teams,…