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Campus & Community

Rainbow Recognition Award Nominations Due March 25

Thursday, March 22, 2018, By Samarth Sharma

Rainbow Recognition Award nominations, for awards to be presented at this year’s Rainbow Banquet, are due by Sunday, March 25. The Rainbow Recognition Awards acknowledge members of the Syracuse University, SUNY-ESF and city of Syracuse communities whose contributions to LGBTQIA+…

Media, Law & Policy

Can Judges Rule on Gerrymandering and Stay Non-Political?

Thursday, March 22, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Professor Keith Bybee, a legal scholar at Syracuse University who studies issues around gerrymandering and perceptions of judicial bias, is available to discuss the legal issues of Benisek v. Lamone which will be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, March…

Business & Economy

Book Talk, Signing with Carl Schramm, University Professor and Author of ‘Burn the Business Plan’ on April 4

Thursday, March 22, 2018, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Libraries, the Blackstone LaunchPad and the School of Information Studies are hosting an author’s talk and book signing with Carl Schramm, author of “Burn the Business Plan,” University Professor and former president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman…

Campus & Community

National Orange Day Celebrates Syracuse University’s Founding in 1870

Thursday, March 22, 2018, By John Boccacino

This year, the celebration of the University’s 148th birthday on National Orange Day, March 24, will kick off Syracuse University’s first-ever Forever Orange Week.

Campus & Community

TEDx Syracuse University Announces Speakers for 2018 Conference

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, By J.D. Ross

The student organizers at the TEDx Syracuse University conference have unveiled the speakers who will be presenting at the annual event this April. The team has always made it a point to select speakers from a variety of professions and locations,…

Time

Jennifer Grygiel on how much our data is worth to Facebook

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications at Newhouse, was interviewed by Money magazine about the value that users bring to Facebook. F acebook profits off of its 1.4 billion daily users in a big way: According to its most recent filings with the…

Campus & Community

Call for Nominations: Students, Faculty, Staff Sought to Serve on Disability Services Audit Steering Committee

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By News Staff

A campuswide audit of Syracuse University’s disability services, policies and resources will soon get underway. But first, the University is seeking students, faculty and staff interested in serving on the steering committee charged with facilitating the audit. Chancellor Kent Syverud…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School Ranks in Top 10 for 10 Public Affairs Specialties: U.S. News & World Report

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Jennifer Congel

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is once again among the top-ranked graduate schools of public affairs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Grad Schools, and is highly ranked in 11 of the…

Arts & Culture

Laura Marsolek ’13, G’17 Is University’s First Luce Scholar

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

An alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences and former participant in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, Marsolek is one of 18 Luce Scholars chosen from a pool of 162 candidates nominated by 73 colleges and universities across the United States.

Media, Law & Policy

Stanford Professor to Give Volcker Lecture March 26

Monday, March 19, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

Raj Chetty, professor economics at Stanford University, will give the Volcker Lecture Monday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. The title of his talk is “Restoring the American Dream: New Lessons from Big Data.” A…