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Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Alumna Star Zhou Leads Coke’s Olympics Ad Campaign in China

Monday, August 8, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Just six years after graduating from the Newhouse School’s undergraduate program in advertising, Yishu “Star” Zhou ’10 is leading Coca-Cola’s Olympics advertising campaign in her native China. The campaign, which launched in May, was featured in AdvertisingAge and was chosen…

STEM

Physicists Awarded NSF Grant to Study Cancer-Cell Behavior

Thursday, August 4, 2016, By Rob Enslin

M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti and Jennifer Schwarz have been awarded a three-year, $686,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply principles of soft-matter physics to cancer therapy.

Tesla Seeks to Become More than a Car Company

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

This week, electric car company Tesla confirmed its intention to merge with SolarCity, a solar energy firm. Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla and co-founder and chairman of SolarCity. Gary Witt, professor of finance practice, offers some insights into Tesla’s…

Arts & Culture

Lambert Awarded Inaugural Fellowship at Western Sydney University

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and director of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, has been appointed an inaugural senior research fellow of Western Sydney University’s Philosophy Research Initiative, which provides M.A. and Ph.D. opportunities in contemporary continental…

Campus & Community

Disability Cultural Center, Financial Aid, Graduate School Among Office Moves Occurring this Summer

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, By News Staff

The Division of Campus Planning, Design and Construction has been busily working on more than 120 projects this summer to enhance living, learning and working spaces throughout campus. Included in these exciting campus projects are office renovations and relocations. When…

British Investors Stand to Lose Out on Big Beer Money

Monday, August 1, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

As AB InBev edges closer to acquiring SABMiller, fall-out from Brexit threatens share value. In what will become one the top five merger and acquisitions ever, the deal brings together two global beer giants. Tom Barkley, professor of finance practice…

STEM

Innovative Students, Professionals Sought for Hackathon Aug. 1 to Envision Products for Environmental Control

Thursday, July 28, 2016, By News Staff

Targeting emerging opportunities for a new generation of innovative products in Central New York’s industry cluster in thermal and environmental controls (TEC), SyracuseCoE invites students and professionals to participate in “TEChack, a two-day hackathon on Aug. 1 and 2. SyracuseCoE…

Arts & Culture

James Karman G’76 Devotes Career to Studying One of America’s Great Poets

Monday, July 25, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

James Karman G’76 found his passion as an undergraduate at Augustana College, and it has never left him. It is a passion for the poet Robinson Jeffers, not so well known today but hugely famous in the 1920s, ’30s, and…

STEM

Physicist Awarded Grant to Assess Authenticity of Gravitational-Wave Signals

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to continue the search for gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics, is…

Veterans

Values Based Leadership: Secretary of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Speaks to Maxwell Students, Faculty, Staff

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By Jessica Smith

The Maxwell Auditorium was standing room only on Wednesday for remarks by Robert A. McDonald, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The former CEO of Procter & Gamble and U.S. Army veteran discussed “Values Based Leadership,” applying the…