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Grad Student Places Fifth in IBM ‘Master the Mainframe’ Contest
A part-time graduate student in the School of Information Studies who admittedly has “no formal computer science background” has placed in the top five finishers in IBM’s coding and technology skills “Master the Mainframe” competition. Steven Hoover, an information management…
Does Citizenship Require Sacrifice?
The Maxwell School’s State of Democracy Lecture will feature a provocative conversation among four faculty members on the rights, responsibilities and obligations of citizens. Is voting the primary responsibility of citizens in a democracy, or are citizens obligated to engage…
Syracuse Scholar: Ebony Jones ’15
After going on a road trip with her parents to explore all the colleges she applied to on the East Coast, Ebony Jones ’15 chose Syracuse University because she liked the supportive atmosphere. “Syracuse was the only place I felt…
Interim Vice Chancellor Liddy Creates Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow Positions
Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy today announced that she will appoint several faculty members to serve in the newly created capacity of Provost’s Faculty Fellows. The positions are being created with the goal of expanding channels of communication…
González, Wells to Serve as Special Assistants to the Chancellor
Nicholson to Lead New Student Engagement Effort
Carver Reading Series Announces Spring Lineup
The M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing in the College of Arts and Sciences has announced its Spring 2015 Raymond Carver Reading Series. Named for the great short-story writer and poet who taught at Syracuse in the 1980s, the Carver Series…
Hillary Clinton to Deliver Keynote at Toner Prize Celebration March 23 in Washington
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the award celebration for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting March 23 in Washington, D.C. The Toner Prize, sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of…
Nicholson to Speak at Game Design Conference
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicholson, an expert in meaningful gamification, transformative games, facilitating learning through games and play in non-classroom settings, and a game designer himself, has been invited to address the IndieCade East conference in…
Syracuse Stage Presents Acclaimed ‘In the Next Room or the vibrator play’
“In the Next Room, or the vibrator play” is a fresh and funny new play about love, intimacy and marriage. It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new…
Humanities Center Launches 2015 Spring Symposia
The Humanities Center (HC), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced its 2015 Spring Symposia schedule. Events include the HC Faculty Fellow Symposia, the HC Dissertation Fellow Symposia, the HC Symposia, Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminars…