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Arts & Culture

‘Inner Fish’ Author to Deliver Fall Milton Lecture

Monday, May 19, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Neil Shubin, a nationally renowned paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer, will deliver this fall’s Milton First-Year Lecture in the College of Arts and Sciences. Shubin—author of the bestselling “Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of…

Media, Law & Policy

Disability Rights Expert Earns Fulbright Research Award

Monday, May 12, 2014, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Associate Professor of Law Michael Schwartz has received a Fulbright Award for study at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland for the spring 2015 semester. Schwartz, who is deaf, is an expert on disability law and international human rights, and…

Campus & Community

Burman Named Inaugural Holder of Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics

Wednesday, May 7, 2014, By News Staff

Public finance and tax policy expert Leonard E. Burman has been named the first holder of the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Burman is currently professor of public administration and…

STEM

iSchool Hosts Workshop for NSF-Funded Social Computing Researchers

Monday, May 5, 2014, By Diane Stirling

Faculty members at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently hosted a one-day workshop for New York researchers doing National Science Foundation-funded work in the area of social-computational systems. Research Associate Professor Nancy McCracken and Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund organized…

STEM

Chemist Earns Humboldt Research Fellowship

Monday, May 5, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A chemist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, known for promoting academic collaboration among scientists and scholars from Germany and around the world. Ivan V. Korendovych, assistant…

STEM

A Challenge Measured in Megabytes

Thursday, May 1, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Two remote radios. Three minutes with a 5MHz bandwidth. And a randomly generated amount of data—about 173 megabytes.

It was a challenge Kapil Borle and his team couldn’t resist.

Campus & Community

University Lectures Announces 2014-15 Season

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Seven distinguished guests will share their experiences and perspectives with the Syracuse University and Central New York communities this fall and next spring as part of the 2014-15 University Lectures series. Guests during the fall 2014 semester include Van Jones,…

STEM

Faculty, Students Using Big Data to Analyze Energy-Use Patterns

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A team from the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is conducting research analysis using big data sets from the Pecan Street Research Consortium, a global collaboration working on utility system operations, climate change, integration of distributed energy and storage, and…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Welcomes NYS Attorney General as Commencement Speaker May 9

Monday, April 28, 2014, By Keith Kobland

New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will serve as Commencement speaker for the College of Law at its graduation exercises Friday, May 9, at 1 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. As attorney general, Schneiderman is the highest-ranking law…

Health & Society

In Class FST 706: Gender, Food, and Rights

Monday, April 28, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Falk College features a new graduate-level course that explores one of the world’s most important issues: access to food. Professor Anne Bellows provides a unique perspective for students, and as part of the class, students are brought to the United…