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Arts & Culture

Urban Cinematheque 2017 Features over 20 Local Arts Organizations, Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’

Wednesday, August 9, 2017, By News Staff

Urban Video Project (UVP) and Light Work will present Urban Cinematheque 2017, Friday, Sept. 1, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. This year marks the sixth installment of this extremely successful end-of-summer event pairing a free outdoor film with an arts…

Arts & Culture

Book Memorializes Symposium in Tribute to Late, Great African Writer Chinua Achebe

Monday, August 7, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

In 2014, the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences held a daylong conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel “Arrow of God.” The symposium featured some of the…

Business & Economy

Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…

Health & Society

A Decade of PRIDE

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Amy Manley

Celebrating its 10th year, the highly competitive Program PRIDE (Psychology Research Initiative for Diversity Enhancement) program brings together Syracuse University undergraduates from underrepresented groups and invites them to develop an original independent psychology summer research project over the course of…

Business & Economy

Professor Jason Dedrick on Foxconn’s New Wisconsin Plant

Thursday, July 27, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Technology expert and iSchool Professor Jason Dedrick offers insight on the news that Foxconn is opening a new plant in Wisconsin. “Foxconn’s announced $10 billion investment looks like good news for Wisconsin. If completed, it would create a significant number…

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Arts & Culture

LLL Professors Rack up National, University Awards

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Professors in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL), based in the College of Arts and Sciences, have received awards for excellence in teaching, research and service. Myrna García-Calderón, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Latino-Latin American…

Health & Society

Alumnus Plans to ‘Race Across America’

Friday, June 16, 2017, By John Boccacino

More than 3,000 miles—and every type of possible terrain—separate picturesque Oceanside, California, from Annapolis, Maryland. Over the course of seven to eight days, Syracuse University alumnus Ryan Jean ’09 and three teammates will race across those 3,000 miles on bicycles…

Media, Law & Policy

Campbell Conversations Wins NYS Associated Press Association Award

Monday, June 5, 2017, By News Staff

The Campbell Conversations, a public affairs interview radio program hosted by Grant Reeher, professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was awarded first place from the New York State Associated Press Association in the Radio II/Public Service category for…

STEM

Syracuse Alumnus Instrumental in LIGO’s Third Detection of Gravitational Waves

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Alex Nitz G’15, who earned a Ph.D. in physics, helped detect the signal on Jan. 4, 2017, using a software package he began developing at Syracuse.