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Activities Planned to Honor Veterans on Nov. 11
Several activities are planned on the Syracuse University campus to commemorate Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, including a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. at Hendricks Chapel.
Physicist Receives $1.17 Million NIH Grant to Create ‘Nanobiosensors’
Liviu Movileanu, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $1.17 million grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Movileanu will…
Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides
A geologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes—not climate change, as previously thought—affect the rate of landslides in Peru. The finding is the subject of an article in Nature Geoscience (Nature Publishing Group, 2014) by…
Annual Auction to Aid Syracuse Public Interest Network to Be Held Nov. 7
The Syracuse Public Interest Network (SPIN) will host its 22nd annual Public Interest Auction on Friday, Nov. 7, at the College of Law’s Dineen Hall. The event begins at 6 p.m. and includes both silent and live auctions for items…
iSchool Faculty Recall their Part in Digital Journalism Shift of 1994
In 1994, when the World Wide Web was still in its infancy, and the most popular web browser was Mosaic, it wasn’t easy to find news outlets online. In fact, there were just a few thousand websites of any kind….
Campaign Data Collection and Analysis is First Project in iSchool’s New BITS Lab
As Election Day approaches, candidate advertisements and campaign messages consume the broadcast airwaves. But it’s another kind of political chatter—social in nature, occurring in bits and bytes, by and between candidates and among voters online—that several faculty members at the…
Gen. Martin Dempsey Discusses Leadership in Challenging Times
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the 18th chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, shared his thoughts on global security challenges, the qualities of a good leader and the importance of a life in public service as part of a lecture Friday at Dineen Hall.
Perspectives on Sounds from East and West Nov. 2
The Society for New Music presents “Sound Perspectives East and West” Sunday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. at Hendricks Chapel. The program features a variety of sounds, from different places in the chapel that will allow audience members to consider…
NPR Host and Author Michele Norris to Keynote 30th Annual MLK Celebration
Michele Norris, National Public Radio host and special correspondent and creator of the Race Card Project (which involves people constructing six-word essays about race, which they then write on postcards), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 30th annual…
HathiTrust Research Center Seeks Proposals for Collaborative Projects
The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects that utilize the HathiTrust Digital Library and Research Center computational tools to address scholarly research questions. Examples of such collaborations include, but are not limited to: running…