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Arts & Culture

UVP Presents ‘AKIN: Keren Shavit and Eva Marie Rødbro’

Monday, February 26, 2018, By News Staff

Urban Video Project (UVP) is presenting “AKIN: Keren Shavit & Eva Marie Rødbro” from dusk to 11 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays through March 31 at UVP’s Everson Museum of Art architectural projection venue, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse. Rødbro and Shavit will be present…

STEM

Scientists Examine Link Between Surface-Water Salinity, Climate Change in Central New York

Friday, February 23, 2018, By Rob Enslin

The interplay between surface-water salinity and climate change in Central New York is the subject of a recent paper by researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences. Kristina Gutchess, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth Sciences, is the lead author…

STEM

Innovation Orange: Jeff Hemsley

Wednesday, February 21, 2018, By Keith Kobland

Jeff Hemsley, assistant professor in the School of Information Studies (iSchool), conducts research on viral events on social media as they relate to politics, as well as information visualization as a means to better understand and view large amounts of…

Campus & Community

In-Spire Wins Syracuse University ACC InVenture Prize Competition

Wednesday, February 21, 2018, By News Staff

Elizabeth Tarangelo ’19 and Kayla Simon ’19 will represent Syracuse University at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize Competition on April 5-6 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. They were selected top team from a slate of “elite eight”…

Arts & Culture

Black History Commemorative Event to Feature Poets Kavi Ade and Vision

Tuesday, February 20, 2018, By Samarth Sharma

This year’s Black History Month commemorative event, Mending Masculinity, is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 21, in HBC Gifford Auditorium at 7 p.m. The event features poetic expressions by Philadelphia-based poets Kavindu “Kavi” Ade and Perry “Vision” DiVirgillio. The event is free…

Campus & Community

Sheila Johnson-Willis Appointed Chief Equal Opportunity and Title IX Officer

Thursday, February 15, 2018, By News Staff

Prior to being appointed interim associate vice president and chief equal opportunity and Title IX officer in June 2015, Johnson-Willis was director of equal opportunity and inclusion at Syracuse University from October 2012 to June 2015.

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Announces Launch of Nation’s First Live Online J.D. Program

Wednesday, February 14, 2018, By Robert Conrad

The American Bar Association has granted the College of Law a variance to offer a fully interactive online juris doctor program. The online J.D. program will be the first in the nation to combine real-time and self-paced online classes, on-campus…

Campus & Community

SU Libraries to Host Human Library Event April 11; Book Volunteers Needed

Wednesday, February 14, 2018, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Libraries will host its fifth annual Human Library event on Wednesday, April 11, from noon-5 p.m. in Bird Library. Participants will have the opportunity to talk to “human books”: volunteers from the Syracuse University community who represent a…

Health & Society

Sport Management Alumnus Promotes Olympic Athletes of Team Visa

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

At the Olympics in PyeongChang, Brian Meyer ’11 is cheering on a roster of international athletes. Meyer, an account manager with Endeavor (formerly WME|IMG), works with the Visa Olympic Sponsorship team, managing the 54 Olympic and Paralympic athletes for the…

Campus & Community

iSchool, AT&T, City of Syracuse Partner to Launch Civic Data Hackathon Focused on Snow Removal

Friday, February 9, 2018, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool), AT&T and the City of Syracuse have announced the launch of a civic hackathon, Plowing Through the Data, powered by AT&T. The partnership between the iSchool, the city and AT&T is the second community-based hackathon in Syracuse…