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Arts & Culture

Special Collections Research Center to Host Spring Listening Parties

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries, in conjunction with La Casita Cultural Center, will host two spring listening parties this month featuring recordings from the Bell Brothers Collection of Latin American and Caribbean Recordings, which contains over…

Arts & Culture

VPA Communications Design Seniors Win Graphis New Talent Awards

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, By Erica Blust

Two communications design seniors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design won awards in the Graphis New Talent Annual 2018. Jacqueline Akerley ’18 won a gold award in packaging design for “Alpine Ales,” a line of…

Campus & Community

Seventh Annual Collegiate Blood Battle Challenge

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, By News Staff

Syracuse University students support the American Red Cross by being among the student blood donors throughout the United States who help the Red Cross fulfill its lifesaving mission. In fact, approximately 20 percent of the millions of blood donations collected…

Veterans

Institute for Veterans and Military Families Receives Grant from Travelers

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, By Stephanie Salanger

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has received a $50,000 grant from Travelers. The IVMF provides career skills training and entrepreneurship programs that meet transitioning service members, veterans and military spouses where they are in their civilian transition to…

Business & Economy

NYSTAR Re-Designates College of Law’s Technology Commercialization Law Program as the New York State Science and Technology Law Center

Tuesday, February 6, 2018, By Martin Walls

Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) has re-designated the College of Law’s Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCLP) as the New York State Science and Technology Law Center (NYSSTLC, or Law Center). Having served as the NYSTAR Law…

STEM

Engineering and Computer Science Professors Publish Book on Detecting Dangerous Data Anomalies

Tuesday, February 6, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

What do the detection of credit card fraud, seizures in electro-encephalogram data and malware in computer systems have in common?  In each of these examples, the main task is to detect an abnormality that may not have been seen before,…

Campus & Community

Free Tutoring Now Available in 23 Undergraduate Spring Courses from Calculus to Engineering

Monday, February 5, 2018, By Keith Kobland

This semester, the Center for Learning and Student Success—CLASS—is offering more than 100 free, small-group tutoring sessions each week for 23 large, historically challenging undergraduate courses. Courses range from calculus to economics, accounting and engineering. CLASS tutoring sessions help students…

Veterans

Syracuse University Announces Historic $20 Million Gift to Support Construction of First-of-Its-Kind National Veterans Resource Center

Monday, February 5, 2018, By News Staff

Generosity of U.S. Navy veteran Daniel D’Aniello ’68 and his wife, Gayle, positions Syracuse University to help nation transform service to and support of veterans and military families Syracuse University, home to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF),…

STEM

Moving the Needle

Friday, February 2, 2018, By Rob Enslin

George M. Langford is famously soft-spoken, but do not expect the dean emeritus of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) to slip quietly into retirement. On the contrary, he is about to make the biggest noise of his career. In…

Campus & Community

SU Begins 2018 RecycleMania Collegiate Recycling Competition

Friday, February 2, 2018, By News Staff

Beginning on Sunday, Feb. 4, the Syracuse University community will participate in RecycleMania, the eight-week national recycling and waste reduction competition with colleges across the United States and Canada. In the spirit of the competition and to improve the University’s…