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Alumnus Launches DataCuse, Providing Public Access to City Data
Recently, the City of Syracuse announced the launch of a public data portal, DataCuse, that provides open access to batches of city data. The new tool is part of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s open data policy, to make more data about city…
Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy
Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…
Talent Agency Grooms Artistic Teens for Success
David Gebremichael is one of a group of teens who, surprisingly during the summer, get themselves out of bed early and down to the Nancy Cantor Warehouse on West Fayette Street in Syracuse by 9 a.m. four days a week….
Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction
James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”
Professor Jason Dedrick on Foxconn’s New Wisconsin Plant
Technology expert and iSchool Professor Jason Dedrick offers insight on the news that Foxconn is opening a new plant in Wisconsin. “Foxconn’s announced $10 billion investment looks like good news for Wisconsin. If completed, it would create a significant number…
Biochemists Link Synthetic Compound to Hunger-Hormone Production
New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new target by screening a library of roughly 1,600 small molecules for potential disruptors. Because the…
Colorful Mural Taking Shape on Side of Nancy Cantor Warehouse
A 105-foot by 20-foot painted mural—”Always Advance”—has emerged on a west-facing, street-level wall of the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, at a major, high-traffic interesection in downtown Syracuse. It’s one of 11 new pieces of permanent art that began to be installed…
Syracuse Revels in Mega-Science Experiment to Study Neutrinos
Associate Professor Mitchell Soderberg and Assistant Professor Denver Whittington are part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
The Art of Assessment in Creative Disciplines: A Workshop for Faculty
The Art of Assessment in Creative Disciplines, a special workshop for faculty, will be led by Jill L. Ferguson on Aug. 21 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Hillyer Room, Bird Library. To register, visit http://assessment.syr.edu/events/. Have you ever considered where…
Alumnus Posthumously Named to National Mining Hall of Fame
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum (NMHFM) in Leadville, Colorado, will posthumously honor an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences. Vincent E. McKelvey ’39, a noted research geologist who directed the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 1971-77, is part of…