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An Artistic Response to U.S. Immigration Policy
Adela C. Licona, this year’s Syracuse Symposium keynote speaker, finds the euphemistically termed “tender-age facilities”—in reality, prisons for migrant babies and children—wholly reprehensible. The University of Arizona (UA) professor, artist and activist believes the oft-repeated phrase masks extreme cruelty and…
Search Committee Appointed to Identify Next Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Michele G. Wheatly today announced the formation of a search committee for the next dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), following the departure of Dean Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg. Last…
Privacy Protection vs. Accurate Advertising – The Battle for Digital Revenue
Apple has pulled the plug on Facebook’s distribution of an app that paid users to track detailed phone and web usage. It’s another sore spot for the social media giant, which has faced growing scrutiny in past months over user…
New Campuswide Initiative to Support Teaching, Research in Policy and Governance of Autonomous Systems
A new interdisciplinary effort at Syracuse University will advance knowledge and teaching in the field of autonomous systems, exploring new frontiers in policy, law and governance of these fast-expanding technologies. From self-driving cars to drone delivery systems, from robotic underwater…
Syracuse Architecture Announces Spring 2019 Visiting Critics
Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Four studios will be held this spring. James Leng (Boghosian Fellow 2018–2019) Leng will teach the…
Syracuse University Names Five Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Unsung Heroes’
The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee has announced the 2019 Unsung Hero Award winners. The awards are bestowed annually on people who, in the spirit of King’s “beloved community,” have made a positive difference in the lives of others,…
Syracuse University at Sundance
When the Sundance Film Festival convenes in Park City, Utah later this month, Syracuse University will be well represented. For the fourth year, a group of 10 film students—five from the Newhouse School and five from the College of Visual…
Affordable Clean Energy Rule May Lead to More Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions, Study Says
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters and co-authored by Charles T. Driscoll, University Professor of Environmental Systems and Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, predicts that the Trump administration’s Affordable…
Syracuse University Shows Strong Presence at Student Veteran National Conference
Recently, a group of Syracuse University students, composed of 17 student veterans, two ROTC cadets, one military spouse and two students from the University Student Association, attended the Student Veterans of America (SVA) National Conference in Orlando, Florida. The student…
Growing the Science of Sustainability: Molecular Biologist Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 Expounds on Importance of GMOs, Science Literacy
Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 has built a career on defying the odds. From working her way through college as a single mother to being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons (bits of DNA that hop from place to…