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Campus & Community

Digital Scholarship Space Open House March 9

Friday, March 3, 2017, By Christopher C. Finkle

If you can dream it, there’s another place to do it at Syracuse University If you or your students create digital content of any kind, for any purpose, there’s a new University resource to help you bring imaginings and ideas…

Campus & Community

Two Syracuse University Teams Advance to Hult Prize Regional Finals

Tuesday, February 28, 2017, By News Staff

On March 4, two teams of student entrepreneurs from Syracuse University will compete in the regional finals for the $1 million Hult Prize. The teams—Thrive Projects and on PARR—will be competing in Boston and San Francisco. The Hult Prize is…

Campus & Community

Field Trip Planned to Auburn’s Harriet Tubman Home

Friday, February 24, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Department of African American Studies’ (AAS) annual field trip, “The Underground Railroad in Central New York,” will take 38 AAS and other University community members to the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York. The tour will be Friday,…

Campus & Community

Campus Workshop to Explore Attitudes and Effects of Implicit Bias

Thursday, February 23, 2017, By Carol Boll

A workshop titled “Recognizing and Understanding Implicit Bias” will be conducted for interested Syracuse University faculty and staff on Monday, March 6, from 1-3 p.m. in the Gray Ceremonial Courtroom at the College of Law. Sponsored by the University’s Office…

STEM

iSchool Faculty Member, Ph.D. Graduate Honored with Dissertation Awards

Friday, February 17, 2017, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Rachel Ivy Clarke has been honored with the 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the iSchools Organization. Her dissertation, conducted at the University of Washington’s Information School, was judged the best to have been completed…

Arts & Culture

Department of African American Studies Hosts Third Annual John L. Johnson Lecture, featuring Marlo D. David

Thursday, February 16, 2017, By Liam Sullivan

The Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will present the Third Annual John L. Johnson Lecture, featuring Marlo D. David, associate professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality at Purdue University, on Monday, Feb. 20, from 5…

Arts & Culture

SU Libraries to Host Annual Human Library Event April 5; Book Volunteers Needed

Monday, February 13, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Libraries will host its fourth annual Human Library event on Wednesday, April 5, from noon to 4 p.m. in Bird Library. Participants will have the opportunity to talk to “human books”:  volunteers from the Syracuse University community…

STEM

An Engineer for Global Health: Andrew Ramos ’17

Monday, February 6, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

Bioengineers are, quite literally, engineers of health. In that role, they have a true responsibility to put their expertise and skills to work for the good of others. Bioengineering senior Andrew Ramos ’17 doesn’t see any reason to wait until…

Business & Economy

Apply Now for the Invention Accelerator

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

This summer, a newly launched Invention Accelerator, modeled after Invention Factory, will train undergraduate Syracuse University students to “design, prototype and pitch” as they invent tangible products. A collaboration between the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the College of Architecture and…

STEM

Physicist to be Recognized by National Academy of Sciences

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is being recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his “outstanding leadership” of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration. Peter R. Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…