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Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Announces Finalists in 2014 Mirror Awards Competition

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced the finalists in the 2014 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 4 in New York City. The Mirror…

Campus & Community

Research Computing Renaissance at SU

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Christopher C. Finkle

Recent developments in Syracuse University’s OrangeGrid and Academic Virtual Hosting Environments (AVHE)—both centrally managed by Information Technology and Services (ITS)—increase the University’s resources for compute intensive academic research, and allow SU’s researchers to tackle new and greater computational tasks, get…

Arts & Culture

Kari Smiraglia Wins Grand Prize in Design-a-Throw Competition

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Erica Blust

Kari Smiraglia, a senior fashion design major in the Department of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was named the grand prize winner of the 2013 Design-a-Throw competition sponsored by Monterey Mills, one of the nation’s premier suppliers…

Wind Power Can Be Cost-Comparable, New Analysis Reveals

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The costs of using wind energy and natural gas for electricity are virtually equal when accounting for the full private and social costs of each, making wind a competitive energy source for the United States, according to a new study on the…

STEM

Faculty Member a Judge for IBM’s Master the Mainframe Competition

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will be involved in an innovative IBM academic initiative, as one of its faculty members participates as a judge for the technology firm’s “Master the Mainframe World Championship” programming competition for young innovators. One…

Student’s Company Offers Strategies for Social Television

Tuesday, March 11, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Melanie Witkower ’14 was interning at a television production company last spring when she noticed a better way to connect a show’s production with fans online. Witkower now has a company that links the small screen with its life in social media and the fans that make it a hit.

Campus & Community

‘You Only Have Earth’ Video and Poster Competition

Thursday, February 27, 2014, By News Staff

YOHE is the theme for this year’s Sustainability Video and Poster Competition. SU Showcase is seeking original work by students who want to raise awareness about the way humans are treating the Earth and the potential for positive change. Students…

STEM

Student Team Advances to Second Round of Cyber Defense Competition

Tuesday, February 25, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A team of students from the Center for Convergence and Emerging Network Technologies (CCENT) cyber security test bed at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is advancing to the second phase of competition in the Northeast regional section of the…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Student Wins ABA Student Writing Competition

Friday, February 14, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

Sean J. Quinn ’06, a third-year student in the SU College of Law, has been named the winner of the 12th annual American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Student Writing Competition. His winning entry was titled “Down on the Pharma:…

STEM

Physicist’s Proposal in Quantum Computing Receives $2.25 Million in Funding

Monday, February 10, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

“The Big Bang Theory” is one of television’s most popular shows, but if you’re interested in physics, cutting-edge research and high IQs, you need to look no further than the Department of Physics in The College of Arts and Sciences….