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Entrepreneurial Engineering Students Improve Ambiance on Huckster Hill
What if engineering students from different majors had an opportunity to develop a solution for an actual company in a single semester? That is exactly what students in Professor of Practice Mark Povinelli’s “Introduction to Entrepreneurial Engineering” did last fall….
The Supreme Court’s “Unprecedented Judicial Activism”
University Professor David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law, offers an opinion on the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday that put a hold on the Obama’s administration’s Clean Power Plan. “The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling granting a stay of the…
Humanities Center Presents ‘Earth, Water, Woman’ Feb. 6
The Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences continues its spring schedule with a screening of “Earth, Water, Woman,” a 2013 documentary about community and sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. The screening is Saturday,…
Biology Student Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Caitlin McDonough, a Ph.D. student in biology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, supporting her study of the intricate details of reproduction. The award provides three years of independent financial support for early-career graduate students….
From Syracuse to Dubai
Architecture students take on real-world urban challenges in visiting critic studios
Student Goes from Learning Code to Teaching It
Marcus Robinson ’19 had always been interested in math, engineering and computer hardware but coding seemed confusing and a little daunting—until he signed up for a workshop during his junior year in high school.
Students, People with Different Abilities Collaborate on Adaptive Design Solutions
Eyeglasses become an extension of a person and reflect the wearer’s personality. Viewed over time, they blend in. What if someone’s wheelchair or accessible device was thought of in the same way?
Professor Sheds New Light on Fracking Debate
A professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is shedding new light on an old debate. Donald Siegel, an accomplished hydrologist and geochemist who chairs the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is…
Is the Strength of ISIS Real?
Secretary of State John Kerry has vowed that the world will defeat ISIS, telling reporters on Monday that ISIS is “not 10 feet tall”. However, considering recent terrorist attacks in Paris France, and the bombing of a Russian commercial jetliner,…
Syracuse University Professor: Weakening Web Encryption to Help ID Terrorists Ill Advised
A Syracuse University Computer Science Professor says It would be ill advised to require Silicon Valley companies to weaken encryption or security in order to assist authorities in the fight against terror, despite criticism from a U.S. Senator. Dianne Feinstein,…