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Pancake Stressbuster Event on Dec. 10
Orange After Dark (OAD) hosts its popular biannual Pancake Breakfast Stressbuster on Sunday, Dec. 10, from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. in Schine Dining Center. Student Centers and Programming Services (SCPS), along with the Office of Student Activities, both within the Division of…
LISSA Holiday Media Drive to Benefit Golisano Children’s Hospital
Students in the Library and Information Science Student Assembly (LISSA) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) are conducting a holiday media drive to benefit the Family Resource Center at Upstate Medical University’s Golisano Children’s Hospital. The Family Resource Center provides health information materials, computer-based…
Clarke Honored with ALISE Dissertation Award
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Rachel Ivy Clarke has been honored with the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award, given by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). The award recognizes dissertations that deal with substantive issues related to…
VPA Student to Appear on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’
What started as a search for theater auditions turned out to be a million-dollar opportunity for Jesse Scheinbart ’18, a music major from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. “It happened so fast,” says Scheinbart, who was selected as…
Life’s Refrain: Standing Up for the Underdog
Every morning, Thelma Guenther Bonzek ’43 sits down at the upright piano in her sunny Syracuse home and plays a few songs. She pounds out the notes and sways to the music, nodding her head to keep time. At 5…
Whitman School Ranked in Poets&Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2017
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s undergraduate business program is ranked No. 43 by Poets&Quants for Undergrads, the leading online publication for undergraduate business education news. The website released its second annual Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2017 ranking Dec. 5, calling it “the most…
Costello Staniec Named Chair Of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor Andria Costello Staniec has been selected as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering & Computer Science. Costello Staniec’s teaching and research are focused on applied environmental microbiology and engineering education. She holds a bachelor’s…
Exploring Fluid Dynamics in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has grown beyond the gaming world and is increasingly being used for a variety of applications—including education. Researchers in Assistant Professor Melissa Green’s Flow Visualization Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science are developing a way to apply it to…
Soundarajan Named SIAM Science Policy Fellow
Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan has been named a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Science Policy Fellow based on her interest in expanding participation in computer science among youth in rural areas. The SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program helps early career researchers…
Disability Cultural Center Hosts Poetry Reading
On Thursday, Dec. 7, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) is hosting a poetry reading in room 228B of Schine Student Center. The reading will take place noon-1 p.m. The reading features four poets, all of whom are also members of the…