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Blockbuster Demise Emblematic of Economy Trends, Says Thompson
Blockbuster stores used to be everywhere across the United States. Now they stand deserted or filled with other businesses, a trend that has been copied across the nation, as pop culture expert and Newhouse professor Robert Thompson explained to Moneyish….
Falk Sport Analytics Majors Place First at NYU’s SABR Diamond Dollars Case Competition
A team representing the Syracuse University Sport Management Baseball Statistics and Sabermetrics Club won the SABR Diamond Dollars Case Competition at NYU earlier this month. Falk College sport analytics majors Justin Perline ’19, CB Garrett ’19, Luke Scheetz ’21, Trevor…
Blackstone LaunchPad Hosts Syracuse Qualifier for Hult Prize Competition
The Blackstone LaunchPad at Bird Library will host a Dec. 11 campus qualifier for the Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition for the creation of new social businesses. Known as “The Nobel Prize for student startups,” the Hult Prize…
Media Expert Thompson Explains Ken Shapiro’s Legacy
Child TV star Ken Shapiro passed away last week at the age of 75. His satirical style helped usher in shows like Saturday Night Live, and his legacy remains to this day. In the New York Times, pop culture expert…
Physics Ph.D. Student Builds Successful Research Company
Aaron Wolfe expects to finish up his Ph.D. in physics this semester. He has been working on his doctorate since 2011 and should have been done by now, he says, but a few things have gotten in the way—like helping…
Five College Of Engineering & Computer Science Professors Honored with Endowed Professorships
On Friday, Nov. 3, professors Jesse Bond, Dacheng Ren, Biao Chen, Jae Oh and Young Moon from the College of Engineering & Computer Science were formally inducted as endowed professors. Dean Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg and Provost Michelle Wheatly recognized the…
Finalists Announced for Inaugural Impact Prize Competition
A panel of Syracuse University judges has announced the 12 finalists for the inaugural Impact Prize competition. The student ventures were selected from 36 applicant teams by a panel of Syracuse University faculty and staff who are engaged in entrepreneurship and…
Whitman Accounting Students Place First in Regionals of Annual Deloitte Tax Competition
On Nov. 4, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management Tax Team placed first in the annual Deloitte FanTAXtic regional competition in Boston. The students, Yonglin Wang ’19, Leanne Paddock ’20, Jonathan Gauthier ’20, Yue Lei ’18, Ryan Houck ’20, Michael Leong ’20, Julie Le Hello…
Strong Showing for Orange Hacker’s Association at National Cybersecurity Competitions
The students in the Orange Hacker’s Association are “white hat hackers”—hackers who test cybersecurity programs not to break them, but to help make them safer. “People think of it as a very bad thing, but actually a hacker is just someone who…
Abdali, MacPherson are Finalists for Prestigious Nationally Competitive Scholarship Awards
Two Syracuse University students have been named finalists for three of the United States’ most prestigious nationally competitive scholarship awards: the Marshall Scholarship, the Mitchell Scholarship and the Rhodes Scholarship. Zainab Abdali, a senior English and textual studies and mathematics…