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Campus & Community

Flight from Syria, New Life in the College of Law, Now Helping Fellow Refugees

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Violette Khabbaz, silent, is listening to a conversation on a March afternoon. Sunlight pours through a window and illuminates her face as she leans across the counter of the Byblos Mediterranean Café, the restaurant she operates on North Clinton Street…

Campus & Community

U Senate Committee on Student Life Launches Email, Social Media Presence

Thursday, March 9, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse University Senate’s Committee on Student Life has created an email and three new social media addresses to strengthen its online presence and allow students to interact with the committee. The committee, composed of undergraduate and graduate students and…

Health & Society

Celebrating the Life of Kay Buschle, Nursing Alumna and Professor Emerita

Wednesday, March 8, 2017, By Valerie Pietra

Kay A. (Brown) Buschle ’57, G’62, professor emerita of nursing, earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Syracuse University School of Nursing, and much of her career was spent there as a professor of nursing. Buschle passed away…

Top of Mind podcast

Associate Professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley on Social Media and President Trump

Monday, March 6, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Jennifer Stromer-Galley, associate professor in the School of Information Studies, was interviewed on BYU Radio for the story “Social Media and Politics.”

Arts & Culture

Jazz Fest Founder Frank Malfitano: ‘World-Class Education’ at Syracuse in Jazz, Blues—and Life

Monday, February 20, 2017, By Sean Kirst

For more than three decades, Frank Malfitano ’72 has served as executive director and guiding force behind Jazz Fest, an event he founded in greater Syracuse. Admission is free for the annual festival, which has brought some of the greatest…

Mediashift

Jennifer Grygiel Authors Piece on Enabling Students to Identify Bias in Product Development

Friday, February 17, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Jennifer Grygiel, Assistant Professor of Communications, wrote an article for Mediashift “How to Enable Students to Identify Bias in Product Development.”

Campus & Community

SUPAC Conference on Transition Planning for Life after High School for Students with Disabilities

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University Parent Assistance Center (SUPAC), the Mid-State Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Center (RSE-TASC) and Onondaga Community College (OCC) will host a free conference, “Finding Your Way! Understanding Transition Planning In and After High School.” The event,…

Associated Press

Assistant Professor Jennifer Grygiel on Twitter and Abusive Tweets

Thursday, February 9, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Newhouse Assistant Professor Jennifer Grygiel talks to Associated Press on how Twitter can better manage harassing and abusive material on its platform, it is “a simple fix: Just hire more humans.”  Twitter broadens its campaign against hate and abuse  …

Syracuse Post-Standard

College of Law Dean Craig Boise’s Life as a “Modern Renaissance Man”

Thursday, February 9, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse University College of Law Craig Boise discusses his life from a Kansas farm boy to dean of a law college with Syracuse.com in the article SU law school Dean Craig Boise: Ex-cop, classical pianist who had to learn to be…

STEM

Geochemist Breathes New Life into ‘Great Oxidation Event’

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences is providing fresh insights into the “Great Oxidation Event” (GOE), in which oxygen first appeared in the Earth’s atmosphere more than 2.3 billion years ago. Christopher Junium, assistant professor of Earth…