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STEM

Acuna and Team Create Tool to Detect Academic Fraud in Research Papers

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, By J.D. Ross

For academic journal editors and research integrity officers at post-secondary institutions, detecting the re-use of images and illustrations in academic papers can be a time-consuming, if not impossible, task. While resources for detecting similarities and plagiarism in text submissions have…

STEM

Engineers, Computer Scientists Unite to Develop Autonomous UAVs

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

The future of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is autonomy. Giving UAVs the ability to operate on their own opens up a world of possibilities, including package delivery, photography, surveillance and more. Today, most UAVs still need someone to control them…

Arts & Culture

Faculty, Alumni Headline Good Friday Concert March 30

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Members of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will headline a Good Friday concert at DeWitt Community Church (DCC). On Friday, March 30, Abel Searor ’08, G’10, who teaches piano in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of…

Media, Law & Policy

From West Virginia Labor Victory to Upcoming Walkout – We’re At a Critical Moment

Monday, March 12, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

On March 14, students plan to participate in a national school walkout to honor the lives of the 17 people killed at Stoneman Douglas High School nearly one month ago, and push lawmakers to pass stricter gun control laws. This…

Veterans

LIS Alumna Helps Veterans Preserve Their Stories

Friday, March 9, 2018, By Renée K. Gadoua

Annabelle Weiss dropped out of Hunter College in 1943 because she wanted to enlist in the armed services. With her parents’ consent, she joined the U.S. Marines and reported for training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in April 1944. There…

Campus & Community

Team of Evaluators from Middle States to Visit Campus this Month

Thursday, March 8, 2018, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University’s reaccreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education enters its final phase this spring, with a team of peer evaluators scheduled to visit campus March 25-28. During the visit, the evaluators, who come from other Middle States-accredited…

Arts & Culture

Innovation Orange: Adriana Gorea

Thursday, March 8, 2018, By Keith Kobland

Gorea’s work and research are inspired by biomimicry, which is the design and production of materials, structures and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.

Campus & Community

Graduate Student Seth Delisle Helps to Engineer Faceoff Wins for Syracuse Men’s Lacrosse

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

On a typical Tuesday morning, Seth DeLisle, mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is working on complex differential equations that measure the lift and thrust a helicopter needs to fly. “The classes…

STEM

Biologists Discover Link Between Protein in Brain, Seizure Suppression

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Seizure suppression is the focus of an original research article by two members of the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences—and they have the pictures to prove it. James Hewett, associate professor of biology, and Yifan Gong,…

STEM

Huang Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant for Technology Commercialization Research

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Yun Huang has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program to explore commercialization of Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon technology that she has developed. The I-Corps program prepares academic researchers to extend their…