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NSF Grant Will Allow Acuna to Study Optimization of Scientific Peer Review Process
Deficiencies in the scientific community’s centralized peer review process can impact more than a researcher’s career. Faults in the process can ultimately affect the kinds of scientific discoveries that are made, the distribution of information about findings, the technology innovations…
Disbursements Processing and Financial Systems Management Offices Temporarily Relocating
Effective today, the Offices of Disbursements Processing and Financial Systems Management will be relocating from the Skytop Office Building to 640 Skytop Rd., Unit 3. This temporary relocation is necessary to accommodate the renovations to the Skytop Office Building. Office…
Update on Student Conduct Process from Dean of Students Robert Hradsky
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: As you know, the student conduct process for the students involved in the Theta Tau videos has been ongoing since the alleged behavior first came to light in April. I am writing today to report…
ECS Professor Secures Yahoo Donation of Servers for Research Processing
The search to answer research questions through vast amounts of data requires massive amounts of computer server space. Syracuse University has a healthy number of data servers ready to assist researchers, but a recent donation by Yahoo is adding more…
Update on Student Disciplinary Process
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: The Department of Public Safety (DPS) Chief Bobby Maldonado announced yesterday that complaints had been filed against 18 individuals in connection with the Theta Tau fraternity conduct investigation. These individuals are alleged to have violated…
Data to Drive Future of Amazon-Whole Foods Grocery Delivery
This week Amazon announced it will begin delivering groceries from Whole Foods via Prime Now service to customers in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach. The company says it plans to expand the service to other U.S. cities later this…
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…
Division of Business, Finance and Administrative Services Launches Strategic Planning Process
Syracuse University’s Division of Business, Finance and Administrative Services (BFAS) has launched a strategic planning process for all of its units and functions. The important planning process will allow the University’s administrative and financial units to fully align and support…
Newhouse PR Chair Rochelle Ford Co-Edits Book on Prominent Public Relations Figure Ofield Dukes
Rochelle Ford, professor and chair of the public relations department in the Newhouse School, and the Rev. Unnia L. Pettus are co-editors of a new book, “Ofield: The Autobiography of Public Relations Man Ofield Dukes,” which has been nominated for…
A System and Method for Tracking and Managing Skills: TCLC Helps a Rochester Entrepreneur Protect a Bright Idea
It is perhaps difficult to remember a time before the nutrition facts label. Before 1990, information about the calories, cholesterol, fat content and vitamins in the food we eat was sparse and non-standard. Now the label is a mandatory, ubiquitous…