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Arts & Culture

Setnor School to Present Comic Opera ‘Gianni Schicchi’ Jan. 26-27

Monday, January 22, 2018, By Erica Blust

The Opera Theater in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will present the one-act comic opera “Gianni Schicchi” on Friday, Jan. 26, and Saturday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m….

Veterans

‘Best Place for Vets’ in Full Force at Student Veterans of America Conference

Friday, January 19, 2018, By Stephanie Salanger

Syracuse University turned the Lone Star State orange recently as over 20 Orange student veterans, the Office of Veterans and Military Affairs (OVMA), the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), the team from the Veterans Affinity Group, and University…

STEM

Britton Plourde Works to Develop Tools for Quantum Computer

Thursday, January 18, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

Britton Plourde, professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to work on developing tools for building a quantum computer. This is a collaborative project…

Bloomberg

Expert Banks on FISA Extension

Friday, January 12, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

William Banks, the Founding Director of INSCT at Syracuse, talks to Bloomberg News about the recent extension of a warrantless spying act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, and how is passed despite previous uncertain support from President Trump….

Media, Law & Policy

VPA Student to Appear on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, By Keith Kobland

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…

Campus & Community

Drones Is Topic at Thursday Morning Roundtable Dec. 7

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, By Eileen Jevis

“Drones: How Will They Impact Central New York?” will be the topic when Major General Mark “Hoot” Gibson, USAF (Ret.), CEO of NUAIR Alliance, and Craig Marcinkowski, director, Strategy & Business Development at Gryphon Sensors, speak at Thursday Morning Roundtable on…

STEM

University Awarded $1.2 Million to Develop New Energy Saving Technology

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Syracuse University researchers have received $1,200,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). SU will partner with SRI International, a nonprofit research center, to develop a low-cost, high-accuracy sensor platform that accurately detects human…

Campus & Community

King Family Gift Supports Architecture Reading Room Renovation, Renaming

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Dean of Libraries David Seaman and School of Architecture Dean Michael Speaks have announced a generous gift from Russell A. King ’52 and his late wife, Joan “Jiggy” King ’50,  to create the King + King Architecture Library Endowed Support Fund….

STEM

Physics Alumnus Wins Major Dissertation Award

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, By Rob Enslin

An alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is being recognized by the American Physical Society (APS). Nathan Jurik G’16, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford (U.K.), is the 2018 recipient of the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka…

STEM

Chin, Chapin Testify to NYS Senate on Cybersecurity

Tuesday, November 14, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

In the wake of the Equifax breach, the New York State Senate turned to Syracuse University’s cybersecurity faculty to learn about cyberthreats, best practices and solutions. In the following select passages of their written testimonies, Professors Shiu-Kai Chin and Steve Chapin share their expertise…