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Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…

STEM

Success in Engineering

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.

Business & Economy

Desire, Resources for Self-Employment Grow with Age, Says Whitman Study

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By News Staff

Starting a business is no longer a “young person’s game,” according to new research by Maria Minniti, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Minniti and her co-authors, professors Teemu Kautonen and Simon Down of Anglia Ruskin…

Sperm Wars Ruled by Females?

Monday, June 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

SU study finds that females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a…

STEM

Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…

Campus & Community

Movies on the Quad Planned: ‘Skyfall’ This Friday

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By News Staff

Summer at Syracuse is again sponsoring movies on the Quad. Arrive at 8 p.m. for a good seat. Movie begins at 9. This Friday night, June 7,  it will be Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem in “Skyfall,” from Columbia…

Newhouse School to Name Dick Clark Studios After Legendary Icon and Alumnus

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The $18 Million state-of-the-art studio will be completed in Fall 2014.

Photo Gallery: CCJI in Atlanta

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Before they begin the effort to uncover the truth about race-related crimes that may have taken place half a century ago, students involved in Syracuse University’s Cold Case Justice Initiative took part in an orientation session held in Atlanta. There…

Veterans

Veterans Jobs Event Thursday at Goldstein Student Center

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Office of Human Resources is partnering with Easter Seals and Fedcap, a nonprofit agency that helps people overcome barriers to employment, to connect veterans with local employers at a campus event Thursday, June 6, at the Goldstein Student…

Cold Case Justice Initiative at Syracuse University launches Five Cities Project this summer

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, By Scott McDowell

The Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at Syracuse University has announced in Atlanta that it is launching its Five Cities Project this summer. Its student workers will be sent into five southern cities to begin to take a full accounting of racially motivated killings that may have occurred during the period between 1955 and 1980.