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McDonald Gives Reaction to Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, By Keith Kobland

A surprise ruling from the Supreme Court is drawing a wide range of reaction, much of it negative.

Janklow Program Provides Coast-to-Coast Internships

Thursday, June 20, 2013, By Rob Enslin

The Janklow Arts Leadership Program in The College of Arts and Sciences has placed two more interns. They are Rachel Boucher ’12, G’13, who is interning this summer with the New York City Center, and Noël O.C. Frodelius ’12, G’14,…

STEM

A&S Professor Wins National Nuclear Physicist Award

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Paul Souder, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, is the co-recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Award from Jefferson Science Associates (JSA). He shares the award with Douglas Beck, professor of physics at the University…

WISE Women’s Business Center Announces Three New Board Members, Roster for 2013

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Lindsay Wickham

The WISE Women’s Business Center announced the appointment of Jennifer Creighton, Alyse Holstein and Gwen Webber-McLeod to its board of advisors, as well as the full slate of officers and board members for 2013. “I am excited to welcome our…

iSchool and IBM Host zEnterprise Summer Seminar

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University and IBM’s System z Academic Initiative co-hosted the zEnterprise Summer Seminar at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) earlier this month. This three-day seminar, held June 3-5, brought together IBM employees and college educators from across North America…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…

Registration Open for New Librarianship MOOC

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has opened registration for its second massive open online course (MOOC), the “New Librarianship Master Class.” “The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet,”…

STEM

Success in Engineering

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.

Sperm Wars Ruled by Females?

Monday, June 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

SU study finds that females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a…

STEM

Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…