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Purser Wins Award for New Book about On-Demand Labor
Gretchen Purser, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, has won the 2014 International Book Award from the California Series in Public Anthropology (University of California Press) for her manuscript “Labor On Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor.” Each year…
Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…
Power Plant Standards Could Save Thousands of U.S. Lives Every Year
Power plant standards to cut climate-changing carbon emissions will reduce other harmful air pollution and provide substantial human health benefits, according to a new study released Sept. 30 by scientists from Syracuse, Harvard and Boston universities. The research shows that,…
History Department to Host Lecture Honoring Long-time Faculty Member Otey Scruggs
A lecture in honor of the late Otey Scruggs, a distinguished historian who served on the Maxwell School faculty for more than 35 years, will be held on Monday, Oct. 6. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, associate professor of American culture and history,…
Latin American Ambassadors Will Participate in Panel on Unaccompanied Children Immigration Crisis
On Monday, Sept. 29, the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School will host a panel discussion titled “Confronting the Unaccompanied Children Immigration Crisis: Perspectives from Central America, Mexico and the United States.” The event will take place…
Victor Rios to Speak on Youth Control Complex Sept. 24
The School of Education will host the first installment of the Douglas P. Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Victor Rios, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present “Punitive…
New Cooling System Heats up Physics Research
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to support ongoing work in quantum information science. Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, is the recipient of a $230,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award…
Safer People, Safer Spaces Deepens Sense of Allyship
Creating a more caring community starts with understanding. At the LGBT Resource Center, staff members are helping members of the University community on a path to greater understanding of what it means to be an ally during its sessions on Safer People, Safer Spaces.
Wang Selected for Junior Faculty Achievement Award
Assistant Professor Yang Wang has been recognized with the Robert Benjamin Junior Faculty Achievement Award, an honor that showcases the demonstration of excellence and originality in research. Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy presented the award at the School of Information Studies…
Mueller’s Border Gateway Protocol Internet Research Funded by NSF
Research on vulnerabilities in the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol in a study planned by School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Milton Mueller and postdoctoral researcher Brenden Kuerbis has received a National Science Foundation-funded award. The $338,664 grant is supporting the…