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Campus & Community

TEDx Syracuse University Announces Speakers for 2018 Conference

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, By J.D. Ross

The student organizers at the TEDx Syracuse University conference have unveiled the speakers who will be presenting at the annual event this April. The team has always made it a point to select speakers from a variety of professions and locations,…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents 2018 Newhouse Photography Annual

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Cjala Surratt

  Light Work is presenting the 2018 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Juried by Lauren Steel (visuals director, Verbatim Agency), the exhibition is a collection of more than 25…

Media, Law & Policy

Stanford Professor to Give Volcker Lecture March 26

Monday, March 19, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

Raj Chetty, professor economics at Stanford University, will give the Volcker Lecture Monday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. The title of his talk is “Restoring the American Dream: New Lessons from Big Data.” A…

Media, Law & Policy

March 18 in Russia is more a coronation than an election

Thursday, March 15, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Brian Taylor, professor and chair of the political science department at the Maxwell School, is available for comment about the upcoming Russian elections that will likely earn Vladimir Putin his second consecutive and fourth overall term as president. Taylor is…

Media, Law & Policy

Research Profile: Professor Examines State of Bail, Pretrial Detention, Reform Measures

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Nine out of 10 people who are awaiting resolution of their felony criminal case in jail are being detained because they can’t afford the pre-trial bail, according to national statistics. What does that say about the U.S. criminal justice system?…

Media, Law & Policy

Life in the Fast Lane

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Last fall, Bob Sorokanich ’08 tweeted Tesla celebrity CEO Elon Musk, asking to test-drive his company’s new Model 3. Sorokanich, who is Road & Track’s deputy online editor, may have been half-joking, but ten minutes later, Sorokanich got a call from one…

Veterans

Pearsall Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Veterans Portrait Project

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, By Margaret Lynch

Stacy Pearsall created the Veterans Portrait Project in 2008. Since that time she has traveled the nation taking formal portraits of thousands of veterans in whatever style those veterans choose to present themselves.

STEM

Engineers, Computer Scientists Unite to Develop Autonomous UAVs

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

The future of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is autonomy. Giving UAVs the ability to operate on their own opens up a world of possibilities, including package delivery, photography, surveillance and more. Today, most UAVs still need someone to control them…

Media, Law & Policy

From West Virginia Labor Victory to Upcoming Walkout – We’re At a Critical Moment

Monday, March 12, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

On March 14, students plan to participate in a national school walkout to honor the lives of the 17 people killed at Stoneman Douglas High School nearly one month ago, and push lawmakers to pass stricter gun control laws. This…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture and Maxwell School to Co-Host Interdisciplinary Forum on Future of I-81

Monday, March 12, 2018, By Elaine Wackerow

The School of Architecture and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs are joining together to co-host an interdisciplinary symposium, “Future Infrastructures: The Over and Under of I-81,” on Thursday, March 22, from 4-6 pm in Slocum Hall Auditorium….