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Spectrum News

How Benisek v. Lamone Ruling Can Impact Voting Districts Throughout the Country.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Keith Bybee, professor of political science at the Maxwell School and Vice Dean at the College of Law, was interviewed by Spectrum News on the issues of gerrymandering the case Benisek v. Lamone which was argued before the Supreme Court….

Courtroom News Service

Maryland Gerrymandering Case Offers Unique Test to High Court

Tuesday, March 27, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Keith Bybee, the Vice Dean of Law, Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor and director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media, talked to Courtroom News Service about the upcoming…

Media, Law & Policy

Before Rolling Back Tailpipe Standards – Consider Gas Tax, Air Quality

Monday, March 26, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

The Environmental Protection Agency will decide by April 1 if future vehicle emissions standards should be eased – a decision long advocated for by the automotive industry. Charles Driscoll, a professor at Syracuse University’s College of Civil Engineering and Computer…

STEM

Slepecky Lecture, Award Ceremony to Take Place April 4

Monday, March 26, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

The Norma Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Undergraduate Research Prize Award Ceremony will take place Wednesday, April 4, at 2:45 p.m. in 304 Schine Student Center. This is a change from the previously announced starting time of 3 p.m. The event…

Campus & Community

Sessions to Help Students Interested in Applying for Fulbright Grants

Monday, March 26, 2018, By News Staff

Kaitlyn Hobson, ’16, recently returned from Thailand, where she spent a year on a Fulbright grant to serve as an English Teaching assistant. Hobson describes her time in Thailand, and her work through Fulbright, as “honestly the best experience I’ve…

CBS News

Expert Grygiel Calls on Facebook Leaders After Data Breach

Sunday, March 25, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

In a new scandal, Facebook has been charged with a data breach that allowed 50 million users’ private data to be harvested without their permission. With such a serious issue at hand, social media expert and Newhouse professor Jennifer Grygiel…

Health & Society

Falk College, Onondaga County Health Department Partner to Reduce Sodium Intake

Friday, March 23, 2018, By Michele Barrett

The Syracuse community’s youngest citizens in childcare programs, as well local school-aged and college students, are the beneficiaries of Onondaga County Health Department and Falk College’s joint efforts aimed at reducing sodium intake. The Department of Health’s Healthy Communities Initiative…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage to Hold Children’s Auditions for ‘Elf the Musical’

Friday, March 23, 2018, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage will host general auditions for children for two roles in 2018/2019 season holiday show, “Elf the Musical,” on Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. by appointment only, at the Syracuse Stage SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St….

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents ‘Karolina Karlic: Rubberlands’

Friday, March 23, 2018, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work is presenting “Karolina Karlic: Rubberlands,” an ongoing photographic survey by Santa Cruz-based artist Karolina Karlic mapping the ways rubber manufacturing is socially, ecologically and systemically formed. The exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery…

Campus & Community

History-Making Athlete, Social Activist Kathrine Switzer ’68, G’72 to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address at Syracuse University

Friday, March 23, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

As a 20-year-old Syracuse University junior in 1967, Switzer became the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston Marathon. That life-defining day inspired her to create greater opportunities for women in sports.