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Campus & Community

University to Operate on Reduced Schedule during Green Days

Friday, December 15, 2017, By News Staff

The University will be operating under its Green Days and reduced occupancy schedule format for the Winter Break period from 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 22, through Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. During the Holiday/Green Days period: • All academic and…

Campus & Community

University Endorses Learning Outcomes Assessment to Ensure Academic Program Accountability, Excellence

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, By Carol Boll

Four years ago, math Professor Terry McConnell was asked to participate in a series of meetings with faculty to help advance a campuswide culture of assessment and allay any concerns about a Universitywide move toward student learning assessment. McConnell didn’t…

Campus & Community

Students Head to Puerto Rico to Aid in Hurricane Recovery Efforts

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

During this holiday season, 23 Syracuse University students and two advisors are headed to Puerto Rico to help in the recovery from the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which struck the island this past fall. The group will…

STEM

Bend Or Break? ECS 101 Students Test Wood Bridge Designs

Monday, December 11, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Designing a wood bridge is one thing. Actually building it knowing a series of 19-pound weights will be placed on it is another. Teams of first-year students from the College of Engineering & Computer Science in ECS 101 had about a week…

Arts & Culture

‘Film Tasting’ Celebrates Entrepreneurial Spirit of SU Creatives

Thursday, December 7, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of Syracuse University student filmmakers at a “Film Tasting” event to sample some of this season’s best student films and animations, from shorts to featurettes. The popup student film and animation showcase will take place at…

Arts & Culture

Native Speaker Will Bring Life to Ghanaian Language in Linguistics Class

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

The best way to learn the intricacies of a foreign language is through the words of a native speaker. Assistant Professor Christopher Green is making that happen for students who want to explore a particular African language in his spring…

Business & Economy

Professor Yuzhe Tang on Bitcoin, Criminal Activity and How Digital Currency Disrupts Traditional Banking

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Bitcoin’s recent price swings have given a lot of people reason to take a closer look at the global digital currency and how it works. Yuzhe (Richard) Tang, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, says that while…

Campus & Community

Life’s Refrain: Standing Up for the Underdog

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

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…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Ranked in Poets&Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2017

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Kerri D. Howell

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…

Media, Law & Policy

Expert Commentary: Systematic Doping Not Seen Since East Germany of the 70s and 80s

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Attorney John Wolohan, a professor of Sports Law in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, is available to speak to the issues surrounding Russia being banned from the 2018 winter Olympics in South Korea. Wolohan , who…