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Hemsley’s ‘Going Viral’ Wins Annual ASIS&T Book Award

Friday, November 7, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A faculty member whose research and writing regarding the components and characteristics of virality in the online media space is having that scholarship recognized with one of two best book awards at the annual meeting of the Association of Information Science…

‘A History of the Future: The New Landscape of Climate Change’ Opens at Palitz Gallery

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, By Scott McDowell

The Palitz Gallery exhibition “A History of the Future: The New Landscape of Climate Change” opens Thursday, Nov. 6. This will be the first New York City solo exhibition post superstorm Sandy by partners and photographers Susannah Sayler and Edward…

Campus & Community

Falk Grad Studies Information Session Nov. 15

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse University faculty, staff and current students will welcome potential graduate students interested in the Falk College’s graduate programs in child and family studies, public health, marriage and family therapy, nutrition science, social work and sport management during a special…

Health & Society

Jennifer Wilkins Updates First U.S. Regional Food Guide

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Thanks to farmers’ markets, farm-to-school programs and community-supported agriculture, locally grown foods are more readily available—and more in demand. People want to know where their food comes from. How is it grown? What steps are involved in its processing? Evidence…

STEM

Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A geologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes—not climate change, as previously thought—affect the rate of landslides in Peru. The finding is the subject of an article in Nature Geoscience (Nature Publishing Group, 2014) by…

STEM

Syracuse Scholar: Nick Danyluk

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

When the installation of Windows 8 was complete on Nick Danyluk’s laptop, he discovered with disappointment that the interface was geared toward monitors with touch screens, which was not something his computer featured. In this scenario, most people would seek…

Urban Video Project Presents Sanford Biggers’ ‘Shuffle’ and ‘Shake’

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Anneka Herre

Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization Light Work are pleased will present “Shuffle”(2009) and “Shake” (2011) by celebrated multimedia artist Sanford Biggers from Nov. 6-Dec. 27. This screening marks the second major exhibition in Urban Video Project’s year-long curatorial…

Media, Law & Policy

iSchool Faculty Recall their Part in Digital Journalism Shift of 1994

Monday, November 3, 2014, By J.D. Ross

In 1994, when the World Wide Web was still in its infancy, and the most popular web browser was Mosaic, it wasn’t easy to find news outlets online. In fact, there were just a few thousand websites of any kind….

Campaign Data Collection and Analysis is First Project in iSchool’s New BITS Lab

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Diane Stirling

As Election Day approaches, candidate advertisements and campaign messages consume the broadcast airwaves. But it’s another kind of political chatter—social in nature, occurring in bits and bytes, by and between candidates and among voters online—that several faculty members at the…

Perspectives on Sounds from East and West Nov. 2

Friday, October 31, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The Society for New Music presents “Sound Perspectives East and West” Sunday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. at Hendricks Chapel. The program features a variety of sounds, from different places in the chapel that will allow audience members to consider…