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Kuusisto Raises Concerns Over Delta’s Disability Regulations
Delta Airlines has updated its regulations regarding passengers who require in-flight service animals. While, of course, the aim of these changes is to help, Syracuse School of Education Professor, and seeing-eye dog user, Stephen Kuusisto says that these updates actually…
Spring Lineup Announced for University Lectures Series
The spring University Lectures series features an internationally known expert in aerial robotics, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times and a renowned evangelist for construction and operation practices of buildings that advance human health and well-being.
Road to Oz Leads to Russia
L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” stands as one of America’s most beloved children’s stories, with endless spinoffs and familiar pop culture references. Mention “Wicked Witch of the West” or “Yellow Brick Road” and most people—especially in Central…
Kimberly Grinberg Prepares for an International Conference on US-Mexico Drug Policy
Third-year law students are busy enough in the spring semester, preparing for final exams, studying for the bar exam, lining up job interviews and looking ahead to Commencement. But in the middle of this crowded schedule, Kimberly Grinberg, a joint…
Two Syracuse Teams Advance to Hult Prize Regionals
Student startups Farm to Flame Energy and Drop Top are advancing to the regionals of the prestigious Hult Prize. Farm to Flame Energy will compete in Boston, and Drop Top will compete in Toronto. Fifteen regional finals are being held…
Newhouse Journalists Work the Beat to Tell Personal Stories of Minority Police Officers
A group of eight journalism students from the Newhouse School spent the 2016-17 academic year examining a national issue with local implications: police-community relations.
Psychology Alumnus Awarded Bronze Medal for Dissertation
William Aue G’14, who earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a bronze medal for the James McKeen Cattell Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Understanding Proactive Facilitation in Cued…
Wet Book Rescue Video a Hit
In the midst of hurricane season this year, the blog “Open Culture” shared the “Wet Book Rescue” video created by Syracuse University preservation librarian Marianne Hanley and former Preservation Department employee Sarah Kim. Here’s how they described it: “After the…
Making the Unthinkable Understandable: New Course Trains Students to Understand and Respond to Atrocities
Uncovering and communicating the truths about human conflict, human suffering and human rights violations is a complicated but vitally important task that often falls to those who write the “first rough draft of history”—that is, journalists operating on the front…
Physicist Marchetti Named to Commission on Statistical Physics
Distinguished Professor M. Cristina Marchetti has been elected to the Commission on Statistical Physics as part of a select group of international scientists. The Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics…