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Campus & Community

Reporting of Uranium Mines, Architectural Adaptive Reuse among Student Research Granted Crown Awards

Monday, April 2, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Garet Bleir ’18 drove cross country last summer to Utah, Arizona and Colorado to take on a complex investigative journalism assignment. He was hired to investigate alleged human rights and environmental abuses involving uranium mining in the majestic Grand Canyon…

AP

Could we See a Real Life Star Wars?

Friday, March 30, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

We soon could see real-life Star Wars action, as President Trump mentioned space as an arena for potential warfare. Trump says he “recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea.” The issues stemming from…

AFP

Facebook Tightens Privacy Settings Amidst Breach

Friday, March 30, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Facebook leadership has been under fire, as a data breach allowed millions of users’ private data to be exposed. The social media giant has since updated its privacy setting to boost future protection, but Newhouse assistant professor of communications and social…

Media, Law & Policy

Daniel McDowell on Trump’s Proposed Tariff Changes

Thursday, March 8, 2018, By News Staff

  Daniel McDowell, assistant professor of political science in the Maxwell School, offers insight on the political and economic repercussions of  President Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports.

STEM

M. Cristina Marchetti Named Director of Soft and Living Matter Program

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, By Carol Boll

Cristina Marchetti, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed director of the University’s Soft and Living Matter Program. Marchetti, who was nominated by her colleagues in…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Officially Certified as Gluten-Free

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, By Greta Bush

Syracuse University’s Food Services has earned an official gluten-free certification. It joins the ranks of other schools who have received this certification by Kitchens with Confidence, the leading allergen and gluten-free auditing and accreditation firm. Four of the University’s dining…

Before the Taps Run Dry: How Recycled Wastewater Could Help California, Cape Town Quench Water Crises

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

California’s Water Resources Control Board is scheduled to vote tomorrow on whether to adopt permanent restrictions against wasting water, as drought worries once again creep into focus. Teng Zeng is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Syracuse…

Arts & Culture

Thrive Together Fair Celebrates Syracuse’s Cultural Diversity

Thursday, February 22, 2018, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Thrive at SU, a registered student organization based in the Blackstone LaunchPad in Bird Library, is hosting its second annual Thrive Together Fair on Saturday, March 3, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium at the Schine Student Center….

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Ralf Schneider Wins Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge Award

Thursday, February 8, 2018, By Erica Blust

Ralf Schneider, assistant professor of industrial and interaction design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, won “Best Use of Autodesk Fusion 360” for his project Bench32 in the Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge VI…

STEM

Celebrated Chemist Geraldine Richmond to Deliver Prins Lecture Feb. 13

Thursday, February 8, 2018, By Amy Manley

Geraldine Richmond, the Presidential Chair in Science and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, will deliver the Willem Prins Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 4 p.m. at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center, 801…