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Media, Law & Policy

Professor of Practice David M. Crane L’80 Announces Retirement from the College of Law

Friday, March 30, 2018, By Martin Walls

After teaching as a professor of practice at his alma mater since 2006, David M. Crane L’80 has announced that he will retire from the College of Law in August. Crane taught international criminal law, international humanitarian law, military law…

Media, Law & Policy

Washington Post Honored with Toner Prize for Political Reporting

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A team of reporters from The Washington Post is the winner of the 2018 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. The $5,000 prize, which is given by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, honors the late Robin Toner ’76,…

Media, Law & Policy

Census Immigration Question: Short-Sighted, Anti-Democratic Tactic

Tuesday, March 27, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

The state of California is pursuing legal action in response to the Trump administration’s decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. The state’s attorney general and secretary of state call the move “anti-immigrant.” Elizabeth Cohen is…

Huffington Post

Social Media Expert on Facebook’s Data Breach

Monday, March 26, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Amidst continuous investigations into Facebook and potential Russian meddling in the 2016 Presidential election, the social media goliath now has a new issue to face in a report stating the company misused over 50 million users’ confidential information. For several…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law to Welcome Preet Bharara as 2018 Commencement Speaker

Friday, March 23, 2018, By Robert Conrad

College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise has announced that Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will be the speaker at the Commencement of the Class of 2018 on May 11 at 11 a.m….

Arts & Culture

VPA’s M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition to Open at Three University Venues

Thursday, March 22, 2018, By Erica Blust

“Hiding in Plain Sight,” the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) thesis exhibition of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will open in March and April at three Syracuse University exhibition spaces that are part of the Coalition of Museums…

Campus & Community

National Orange Day Celebrates Syracuse University’s Founding in 1870

Thursday, March 22, 2018, By John Boccacino

This year, the celebration of the University’s 148th birthday on National Orange Day, March 24, will kick off Syracuse University’s first-ever Forever Orange Week.

Media, Law & Policy

Without Legal Norms to Keep Up with Technology, Self-Driving Vehicles Are Accidents Waiting to Happen

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the National Transportation Safety Board will continue its investigation into a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle that hit and killed an Arizona woman in Tempe, Arizona over the weekend. A test driver from Uber was behind the…

Media, Law & Policy

Stanford Professor to Give Volcker Lecture March 26

Monday, March 19, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

Raj Chetty, professor economics at Stanford University, will give the Volcker Lecture Monday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. The title of his talk is “Restoring the American Dream: New Lessons from Big Data.” A…

Campus & Community

University College, Student Association Partner to Help Rescue Mission

Friday, March 16, 2018, By News Staff

University College and Student Association are partnering with the Rescue Mission to hold a collection drive to gather toiletry items for those in need. The campuswide initiative will take place from March 19-30 as part of SU’s Forever Orange Week….