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Jennifer Grygiel on how much our data is worth to Facebook
Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications at Newhouse, was interviewed by Money magazine about the value that users bring to Facebook. F acebook profits off of its 1.4 billion daily users in a big way: According to its most recent filings with the…
Engineering and Computer Science Students Help Kids Fly in Vintage Flight Simulator at M.O.S.T.
Known as “blue boxes,” the compact blue mini-planes designed by Binghamton New York engineer Edwin Link in 1929 were the first commercially available flight simulators. To build them, Link used his experience working for his family’s piano and organ business….
Educators Join Students in Push to Make Schools Equitable Spaces
On March 24, students and families of March for Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington D.C. as part of a national rally and movement to address mass school shootings. Julia White, an assistant professor at Syracuse…
Call for Nominations: Students, Faculty, Staff Sought to Serve on Disability Services Audit Steering Committee
A campuswide audit of Syracuse University’s disability services, policies and resources will soon get underway. But first, the University is seeking students, faculty and staff interested in serving on the steering committee charged with facilitating the audit. Chancellor Kent Syverud…
Global China Connection Holds Asian Career Fair
In coordination with Career Services, the Global China Connection student organization will be hosting the Asian Career Fair on Tuesday, March 27, from 7-9 p.m. in 304ABC Schine Student Center. This event is geared toward providing a place for Chinese-speaking…
Maxwell School Ranks in Top 10 for 10 Public Affairs Specialties: U.S. News & World Report
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is once again among the top-ranked graduate schools of public affairs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Grad Schools, and is highly ranked in 11 of the…
Laura Marsolek ’13, G’17 Is University’s First Luce Scholar
An alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences and former participant in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, Marsolek is one of 18 Luce Scholars chosen from a pool of 162 candidates nominated by 73 colleges and universities across the United States.
Stanford Professor to Give Volcker Lecture March 26
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…
Research Team Develops 3D Tissue Model of Developing Human Heart
The heart is the first organ to develop in the womb and the first cause of concern for many parents. For expectant mothers, the excitement of pregnancy is sometimes offset by anxiety over medication they require. Parents and doctors often…
If United Airlines Has Any Hope of Reputation Repair, Here’s What Needs to Happen
United Airlines is facing another public controversy after mistakenly shipped a family’s German Shepherd to Japan while the family flew to Kansas City. This comes after a 10-month-old bulldog died in an overhead bin on a flight from Houston to…