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Fake news is entering a more ruthless and dangerous stage
Joel Kaplan, the Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Studies and Professor at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, reacts to reports on the fake news proliferating after the deadly Las Vegas shooting. “For those who believe the notion of fake news is ending…
Syracuse Savors Role in 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Physicists in College of Arts and Sciences instrumental in LIGO’s historic detections of gravitational waves
Open Enrollment and 2018 Benefits Plan Design Information Now Available
Open Enrollment, the annual period when University faculty, staff and other eligible individuals make their benefit choices for the coming year, begins Monday, Oct. 30, and continues through Friday, Nov. 10. This is the only time of year when participants…
Invention Designed by SU Engineering Students Selected as a Finalist for the James Dyson Award
Your favorite clothes may be polluting the world’s water supply. Synthetic clothing including polyester, acrylic and nylon fabrics release millions of microfibers every time they are washed. Even though they are too small to be seen by the naked eye,…
Student Advisory Council to Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience Call for Applications
The Student Advisory Council seeks undergraduate, graduate and law student applicants to advise the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience. Students can apply here. Formerly known as the Student Affairs Advisory Board, this group of students will serve in…
Emeritus Professor Gerald Grant Remembered for Groundbreaking Research on School Reform
Gerald P. Grant, professor emeritus in the School of Education, died at home on Sept. 20. He graduated from Syracuse’s Central High School in 1955, and from John Carroll University in 1959. After earning his master’s from the Columbia School…
SOULscape Student Weekend Retreat Application Opens
SOULscape, a weekend retreat that supports students in finding meaning and purpose, is accepting applications until Oct. 2 at 11:59 p.m. Based on the popular campus conversations series Soulful Sit-Downs, SOULscape welcomes students from across the University to come together…
Professor Robert Ashford’s ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Gains International Support
According to Robert Ashford, Bond Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor in the College of Law, “In the time needed to read this article, the wealthiest 1 percent of the American people will have acquired more capital wealth with the earnings of…
Pop Culture Expert on the Influence of Hugh Hefner on America
With the passing of the famed Hugh Hefner, many remembered his place in American culture, and his influence on so many. Newhouse Trustee Professor and Director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture Robert Thompson commented on this…
Syracuse Symposium to Present Historian Lisa Kirschenbaum, Artist Vivek Shraya
Lisa Kirschenbaum will discuss “Belonging to the International: Gender, Sexuality and Communist Identity during the Spanish Civil War,” while Vivek Shraya will will kick off a two-day symposium titled “Embodied Beings: Exploring the Politics of ‘Queer’ in South Asia.”