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Campus & Community

TEDx Syracuse University Announces Speakers for 2018 Conference

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, By J.D. Ross

The student organizers at the TEDx Syracuse University conference have unveiled the speakers who will be presenting at the annual event this April. The team has always made it a point to select speakers from a variety of professions and locations,…

Time

Jennifer Grygiel on how much our data is worth to Facebook

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications at Newhouse, was interviewed by Money magazine about the value that users bring to Facebook. F acebook profits off of its 1.4 billion daily users in a big way: According to its most recent filings with the…

STEM

Engineering and Computer Science Students Help Kids Fly in Vintage Flight Simulator at M.O.S.T.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

Known as “blue boxes,” the compact blue mini-planes designed by Binghamton New York engineer Edwin Link in 1929 were the first commercially available flight simulators. To build them, Link used his experience working for his family’s piano and organ business….

Campus & Community

Call for Nominations: Students, Faculty, Staff Sought to Serve on Disability Services Audit Steering Committee

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By News Staff

A campuswide audit of Syracuse University’s disability services, policies and resources will soon get underway. But first, the University is seeking students, faculty and staff interested in serving on the steering committee charged with facilitating the audit. Chancellor Kent Syverud…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School to Honor Murdered Maltese Journalist with 2017 Tully Award for Free Speech

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The late Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated last fall, will be honored posthumously with the 2017 Tully Award for Free Speech, presented by the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech. Caruana Galizia’s husband, Dr. Peter Caruana…

Media, Law & Policy

Without Legal Norms to Keep Up with Technology, Self-Driving Vehicles Are Accidents Waiting to Happen

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the National Transportation Safety Board will continue its investigation into a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle that hit and killed an Arizona woman in Tempe, Arizona over the weekend. A test driver from Uber was behind the…

Arts & Culture

Laura Marsolek ’13, G’17 Is University’s First Luce Scholar

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

An alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences and former participant in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, Marsolek is one of 18 Luce Scholars chosen from a pool of 162 candidates nominated by 73 colleges and universities across the United States.

Campus & Community

Invest Syracuse Update: Graham Fitness Center Opens Today on Mount Olympus

Monday, March 19, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

Living on Mount Olympus just got a whole lot more active. That’s because—thanks to a partnership between the divisions of Business, Finance and Administrative Services and Enrollment and the Student Experience—the Graham Fitness Center opened today on Mount Olympus. Auxiliary…

CBS News

After Cambridge Analytica Revelations, Facebook Needs to Be Held Accountable

Monday, March 19, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Facebook’s leadership needs to explain its use of data to lawmakers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Jennifer Grygiel, a social media expert and assistant professor of communications at New Syracuse University, told CBS News on Sunday. Cambridge…

STEM

Research Team Develops 3D Tissue Model of Developing Human Heart

Friday, March 16, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

The heart is the first organ to develop in the womb and the first cause of concern for many parents. For expectant mothers, the excitement of pregnancy is sometimes offset by anxiety over medication they require. Parents and doctors often…