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Media, Law & Policy

Avoiding Conflicts By Improving Cultural Understanding

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

When the Red Cross sent food to drought- and conflict-ravaged Somalia, military personnel distributed the supplies on a first-come, first-served basis. People who didn’t receive food responded by starting a riot. “The military didn’t understand that the local politics of…

STEM

Theoretical Physicist Elected American Physical Society Fellow

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Professor of Physics Simon Catterall was recently elected as an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. The APS Division of Computational Physics nominated Catterall for his contributions to lattice field theory, a framework used to explore how subatomic particles interact, yielding…

Campus & Community

Life Skills Taught at End of School Day

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Eileen Jevis

The South Side Communication Center is much more than a safe place for middle school and high school students to gather after the school day ends. The center, opened in January 2011 through a partnership with the Southside Community Coalition,…

STEM

Sixth Annual It Girls Retreat Brings 94 High Schoolers to Campus

Friday, October 14, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly led an information technology pep rally recently at a dinner for 94 potential School of Information Studies (iSchool) students. “You’ve all made a really great choice to come to the It Girls retreat because…

The Post Standard

Industry Experts Paul and Veley Lead Students in Field of Analytics

Friday, October 14, 2016, By Sawyer Kamman

At the David B. Falk College of Sport Human Dynamics, students are taking advantage of a new concept in sports- analytics. Spearheaded by Dr. Rodney Paul, the analytics program will become an official offered major by the school in the…

Media, Law & Policy

Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian to Be Honored with Tully Free Speech Award

Thursday, October 13, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School will honor Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days, with the 2016 Free Speech Award. The award is given annually to a journalist…

STEM

Duncan Brown to Be Inducted as Inaugural Brightman Endowed Professor Oct. 20

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating the appointment of Duncan Brown as the inaugural Charles Brightman Professor of Physics. A world-renowned expert in gravitational-wave astronomy and astrophysics, Brown will be honored by Syracuse on Thursday, Oct. 20, in…

STEM

Software Tool to Enhance Wireless Spectrum Management Released

Monday, October 10, 2016, By J.D. Ross

With the rapid increase of wireless technology, devices and services, more companies and their hardware are competing for a limited amount of available resources across the radio frequency spectrum. This is an issue that School of Information Studies (iSchool) associate…

Campus & Community

Message from Chief Department of Public Safety Bobby Maldonado

Monday, October 10, 2016, By Keith Kobland

The following message is from Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado: Last night around 11 p.m., a shooting occurred in the 600 block of Walnut Avenue, near the Syracuse University campus. The Syracuse Police Department was on the scene…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium Invites People to Discover USC Visual History Archive Oct. 10

Thursday, October 6, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong examination of “Place” with a special visit by an audiovisual historian from the University of Southern California (USC). Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, academic relations and outreach officer at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA), will lead…