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Call for Nominations for Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship

Monday, February 11, 2019, By Kathleen Haley

Members of the University community are invited to submit nominations for the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship (CAPES). The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 8. [Editor’s note (March 7, 2019): The deadline for submissions has been…

Campus & Community

Black History Month Commemorative Lecture with Speaker Eric D. Pritchard is Feb. 13

Monday, February 11, 2019, By News Staff

The Black History Month celebration is underway with a robust calendar of events that continues throughout February. Next in the lineup, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) welcomes Eric Darnell Pritchard to deliver the annual Black History Month Commemorative Lecture…

Campus & Community

An Artistic Response to U.S. Immigration Policy

Monday, February 11, 2019, By Rob Enslin

Adela C. Licona, this year’s Syracuse Symposium keynote speaker, finds the euphemistically termed “tender-age facilities”—in reality, prisons for migrant babies and children—wholly reprehensible. The University of Arizona (UA) professor, artist and activist believes the oft-repeated phrase masks extreme cruelty and…

Media Tip Sheets

Affectionate Touch Could Help You Better Manage Stress and Conflict

Sunday, February 10, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

For most people, receiving affectionate touch from a romantic partner just feels good. What people may not know is that receiving hugs, kisses, and back rubs may contribute to long-term health and well-being and the maintenance of relationship satisfaction over…

Business Insider

Amazon and Hulu’s Algorithms Continue to Suggest Conspiracy Films

Saturday, February 9, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus

Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, and Michael Barkun, Professor Emeritus from the Maxwell School, were both quoted in the Business Insider story “Amazon and Hulu’s algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be…

Military.com

$7.5M Grant to Boost ‘Onward to Opportunity’ Program

Saturday, February 9, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Mike Haynie, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship, and founder and executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, was interviewed by Military.com for the article “Base Jobs Program Gets $7.5 Million Grant…

Campus & Community

Bailey Brings Customer-Friendly Demeanor, Solution-Oriented Approach to Managing Campus Event Parking

Friday, February 8, 2019, By Brandon Dyer

Deanna (Dee) Bailey, associate director of field operations and events for Parking and Transit Services, has trouble remembering which act appeared at the Dome during Thanksgiving weekend in 1990. “I know it was a huge concert,” Bailey recalls. “And it…

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Search Committee Appointed to Identify Next Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Friday, February 8, 2019, By News Staff

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Michele G. Wheatly today announced the formation of a search committee for the next dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), following the departure of Dean Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg. Last…

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Blackstone LaunchPad Hosting ‘Fireside Chat’ with Branding and Design Guru Paul Leibowitz ’84

Friday, February 8, 2019, By News Staff

An informal lunch with creative food for thought are on the menu in a Fireside Chat with Paul Leibowitz ’84, president and chief creative officer of Leibowitz Branding & Design, on Monday, Feb. 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m….

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University Lectures Hosts NPR Correspondent, Noted Engineer and LGBTQ Advocate, Distinguished Diplomat

Friday, February 8, 2019, By Kevin Morrow

The University Lectures’ spring series features NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg (March 5); internationally renowned research engineer Lynn Conway (March 26); and Martin S. Indyk, distinguished fellow and director of executive education at the Council on Foreign Relations (April…