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Campus & Community

University Hosts Dec. 14 Program on Understanding Bias for All Staff

Wednesday, December 5, 2018, By Carol Boll

A national expert on diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias will speak Dec. 14 at the Schine Center’s Goldstein Auditorium in a program for all University staff. The program is jointly sponsored by Syracuse University Interim Chief Diversity Officer Keith Alford…

Media Tip Sheets

A President’s Best Friend: Why Bush and Other Veterans Benefit from Service Dogs Like Sully

Tuesday, December 4, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Dozens of media outlets have published the photo of late President George H.W. Bush’s service dog Sully sitting beside his casket. Sully will stay with the Bush family until President Bush is buried in Texas on Thursday, and he’ll join…

Arts & Culture

Alumni to be Honored at Billboard Women in Music Ceremony

Monday, December 3, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Four Syracuse alumni will be honored at Billboard’s 13th annual Women in Music awards ceremony in New York City on Thursday, Dec. 6. Deborah Curtis ’90, Lori Feldman ’89, Constance “Connie” Orlando ’89 and Jacqueline Saturn ’90 will join nearly…

STEM

A Moral Vision of Science: Physicist Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 Believes Science and Morality are Inextricably Linked

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 credits his longevity to luck and good genes. “I’ve always had a healthy constitution,” says the 88-year-old scientist and Holocaust survivor, who is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers…

STEM

Jian Tang Named IEEE Fellow

Tuesday, November 27, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

Jian Tang, a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), has been named a Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Attaining the level of Fellow is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious…

Arts & Culture

University Set to Open Massive 238-Painting Exhibition, ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth,’ with Accompanying Public Discussion Hosted by Tanner Lecture Series, University Lectures

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

All 238 paintings in Robert Shetterly’s masterwork portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship” will be on public display for the first time en masse Nov. 29-Dec. 14 at Syracuse University. And the artist himself will…

Campus & Community

Tomorrow Is Giving CUSEday, Syracuse’s Giving Tuesday

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Kara St. John Tompkins

Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a day for communities to come together to champion the causes most important to them—from local organizations to national research, and, most important to us, education. Recognizing the love that our community has…

STEM

iSchool Researchers to Study Election-Related Misinformation on WhatsApp

Monday, November 19, 2018, By J.D. Ross

A pair of researchers from the Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have received a research award from the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging service to study the issues of misinformation transmitted over the…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Community Members Honored at 2018 YMCA CNY Book Awards

Monday, November 19, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

Two members of the Syracuse University community recently received awards at the 2018 YMCA Central New York (CNY) Book Awards. Christine Kitano G’10 and Stephen Kuusisto, University Professor, won the 2018 YMCA CNY Book Award for Poetry and Nonfiction, respectively….

STEM

Invent@SU Teams Excel at Impact Prize Competition

Friday, November 16, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

Student startup companies developed during the Invent@SU invention accelerator program took the top two prizes at the 2018 Syracuse University Impact Prize Competition organized by Blackstone Launchpad. The winners were selected for presenting the most innovative and implementable ideas to…