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Media, Law & Policy

Communications Law Professor Roy Gutterman Reacts to SCOTUS Aereo Ruling

Thursday, June 26, 2014, By Keith Kobland

A Supreme Court ruling on streaming TV startup Aereo was watched with keen interest by Professor Roy Gutterman. By a 6-3 vote the high court ruled that Aereo’s service, providing online streaming access to TV broadcasts, is in violation of…

Campus & Community

Fast Forward Syracuse: Setting a Strategic Course for the Future

Tuesday, June 24, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud, with the support of the University’s Board of Trustees, today introduced Fast Forward Syracuse, a transformation initiative that will provide the key strategic direction and framework for propelling the University forward.

STEM

Pramod Varshney Receives Honorary Doctorate from Drexel University

Thursday, June 19, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Pramod K. Varshney, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and director of Syracuse University’s Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE), received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Drexel…

Campus & Community

Writer Publishes Book on Iconic Arts Leader, Music Educator

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, By News Staff

One of today’s leading arts leaders is the subject of a new book by a member of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Rob Enslin, The College’s communications manager, has co-written the Ned Corman memoir, Now’s the Time: A Story of Music, Education, and Advocacy (Epigraph, 2014). A resident of Rochester, N.Y., Corman is best known as founder of the Penfield Music Commission Project (PMCP) and its national successor, The Commission Project (TCP). He also is closely associated with several major festivals, including the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF).

Arts & Culture

Bradley Awarded $94,000 by Immortality Project at University of California, Riverside

Friday, June 13, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

It’s been a great month for Ben Bradley, chair of the Department of Philosophy and director of the Integrated Learning Major in Ethics. Earlier in June, Bradley was named the inaugural Sutton Distinguished Chair and just recently, he was awarded…

Health & Society

World Cup Begins, But Will We Watch?

Friday, June 13, 2014, By Keith Kobland

One of the biggest spectacles in sports is underway in Brazil, as soccer teams representing 32 nations compete in the World Cup. But while the rest of the world watches, soccer fandom in the United States is still lukewarm at…

Arts & Culture

Philosopher Named Inaugural Sutton Distinguished Chair

Thursday, June 5, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Ben Bradley, a prominent philosophy scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences has been named the inaugural Sutton Distinguished Chair. Named after Allan ’55 and Anita ’60 Sutton, the Anita and Allan D. Sutton Endowed Distinguished Chair in Philosophy…

Arts & Culture

Professor Unveils ‘Lost Play’ by 17th-Century Master in Madrid

Wednesday, June 4, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The discovery of a “lost play” by one of Spain’s greatest writers was the subject of a recent standing-room-only event in Madrid, featuring a professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Alejandro García-Reidy, assistant professor of Spanish in…

Health & Society

Blending Passions for Playing, Studying Sports

Wednesday, June 4, 2014, By News Staff

In the 1990s, many economists disdained sports economics as a field for specialization. But, as someone who had played and watched sports his whole life, Rodney Paul went against that advice he heard in graduate school. Paul had an extensive…

Arts & Culture

A Clearer Picture for Setnor

Tuesday, June 3, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

As with many families of students in the Setnor School of Music, Lisa Kranz’s parents in Buffalo can’t make it to her every performance. Internet streaming provides an important link but there’s one thing that will make it even better.