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Campus & Community

Orange Goes Red for American Heart Association

Thursday, January 15, 2015, By News Staff

Last year Syracuse University raised more than $14,000 for the American Heart Association through the first-ever Orange Goes Red campaign. Hundreds of employees joined the Syracuse University Heart Walk Team, committed to Fifty Days of Fitness, and sold paper hearts…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Welcomes Inaugural Class of MBA@Syracuse Students

Thursday, January 15, 2015, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management and 2U Inc. announced Tuesday the start of the inaugural class of students in MBA@Syracuse, the school’s newly enhanced online M.B.A. degree program powered by 2U. The first MBA@Syracuse students, a group of…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Responds to GSO Resolution Regarding University Interactions with THE General Body

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By News Staff

In a letter delivered tonight to Graduate Student Organization (GSO) President Patrick Neary, Chancellor Syverud responded to the GSO’s Resolution requesting an investigation into the administration’s response to recent student protests. Below is the complete text of the letter. In…

STEM

Drone Project Takes Flight, Leads to Entrepreneurial Venture

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

A couple of summers ago, Arland Whitfield ’16 stumbled across a YouTube video about drones. It wasn’t long before he knew he had to get airborne.

Campus & Community

Participants Needed for Voice Study

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By News Staff

We are conducting a research study through Syracuse and SUNY Upstate Medical Universities to obtain normative information about the way the vocal folds move when people produce voice. The study involves one visit (~30 minutes) where a licensed otolaryngologist and…

Campus & Community

TRAC Co-Founder’s Groundbreaking Investigative Books Now Available Digitally

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, By Greg Munno

More than three decades ago, Random House published “The Rise of the Computer State,” David Burnham’s prescient book that predicted how computers would soon dominate politics, economics, law enforcement and the basic thinking of the American people. Long before the…

STEM

iSchool Mourns Former Faculty Member Marta Dosa

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies Professor Emerita Marta Dosa passed away on Thursday, Jan. 8. She joined the faculty in 1962, after receiving her master’s degree in library science from Syracuse in 1957, and served for 34 years. She was 91…

STEM

Research Finds In-Game Rewards Have No Effect on Learning

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By J.D. Ross

New research from School of Information Studies Associate Professor Jenny Stromer-Galley explores the role of in-game rewards and the impact they have on learning in educational games. In a paper set to be published in the April edition of Computers…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A: Tully Center for Free Speech Director Roy Gutterman on Charlie Hebdo Violence

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Roy S. Gutterman, a graduate of the Newhouse School and the Syracuse University College of Law, is an expert on communications law and the First Amendment. He is director of Newhouse’s Tully Center for Free Speech. In the wake of…

STEM

Shining a Light on Quantum Dots Measurement

Tuesday, January 13, 2015, By News Staff

Professor Shikha Nangia, in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, and Professor Ari Chakraborty, in the Department of Chemistry collaborated to understand how protein corona forms and what is different about the quantum dot before and after the formation of the corona.