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MLS Commissioner Don Garber to Give University Lecture March 22
Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner and Soccer United Marketing CEO Don Garber is the next speaker for the University Lectures series on Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free and open to the public….
College of Law Establishes Beau Biden Memorial Scholarship Fund
The College of Law has established the Beau Biden Memorial Scholarship Fund to honor the life and achievements of alumnus Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III, L’94. The fund will provide scholarship assistance to College of Law students who have demonstrated…
Painting Student Illustrates Confidence, Complexities of Subjects
Julie Pratt’s painted portraits are bold, colorful. Pratt ’16 taps into her subjects as emotional beings and expresses that on canvas, capturing them in larger-than-life paintings.
Peer to Peer
In the traditional college learning structure, students enter the classroom and place their focus on the classroom instructor. But researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences biology department are finding that higher levels of academic success may be achieved…
Student Company Places Second in Student Startup Madness Competition
Student startup company ChaChing, a peer-to-peer payment and money transfer application, has been awarded second place in the “Entrepreneurial Eight” final round of the Student Startup Madness competition held at the SXSW interactive media conference in Austin, Texas, this week. ChaChing was co-founded…
iSchool, Mercyhurst University Partner for Accelerated Graduate Programs
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced a partnership with the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst University intended to attract more students to today’s high-demand information management fields. Mercyhurst and Syracuse made the agreement official during…
Bracketology: Is it a Science or an Art?
With the start of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments comes a yearly exercise involving college basketball fans and non fans alike: filing out the brackets. Whether it’s for fun or for a few dollars, “bracketology” sweeps the country…
MIT Chemist Stephen Lippard to Deliver Prins Lecture March 21
Bioinorganic Chemist Stephen J. Lippard, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the Willem Prins Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 21, at 4 p.m. at the University Sheraton Conference Center (801 University…
Professor Examines Struggle for Racial Justice in Brazil
Kwame Dixon was fascinated by the rich culture and political activism of Afro-Brazilians during his first visit to the city of Salvador da Bahia in 1999. However, it didn’t take long to see the contradictions. Many of the same people…
The Psychology of Robots
Professor Michael Kalish’s psychology class does not sound like your typical campus lecture. Whirring motors, turning gears and the occasional beep serve as the soundtrack of a new offering in the College of Arts and Sciences. Supported by the college’s…