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Gerontological Society of America Honors Harrington Meyer’s ‘Grandmothers at Work’
Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer has been awarded the Gerontological Society of America’s Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award for her book, “Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs.” Harrington Meyer was one of four scholars honored by the Gerontological Society of…
Richard Gluckman Creates Lecture Fund in Honor of Former Dean Robbins
Richard Gluckman ’70, G’71 has created the Mark Robbins Lecture Fund in honor of Mark Robbins ’82, former dean of the School of Architecture. The fund will support an annual lecture in New York City by nationally and internationally known…
iSchool Senior Develops App to Alert Israelis of Rocket Strikes
Last year, Benjamin Honig, a senior at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), won a scholarship award from Apple that provided him with admission to the company’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. While attending the WWDC in…
100 Years after WWI: The Lasting Impacts of the Great War
It was called the Great War and the war to end all wars. One hundred years later, the chaos and consequences of World War I had repercussions that continue to resonate in today’s world.
Going Direct: Communication in a Device-to-Device Network
Two Ph.D students, Chenfei Gao and Xiang Sheng, and their advisor Professor Jian Tang, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, received a best paper award in the 2014 IEEE…
Lucy Mulroney Named Interim Senior Director of Special Collections Research Center
Lucy Mulroney has been appointed interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center at the Syracuse University Libraries, where she has served as curator since 2011. The position was held previously by Sean Quimby, who resigned to become director…
iSchool Research Finds Young People Are Careful, Expressive Communicating Online
Contrary to a common cultural portrayal, young people are careful and conscientious about how they present themselves in online communication, and they compose expressive messages, use larger vocabularies, and emphasize remarks with more punctuation than their older counterparts. Those are some of…
Q&A: Rebecca Rose, Assistant Director of Financial Literacy and Education Programs
A Brookings Institution study released last week claimed that though student debt levels have been increasing at a fast pace for at least two decades, there is no crisis in the offing. The authors say that increases in average lifetime…
Finnish Professorship Done but Not Forgotten
A mathematician in the College of Arts and Sciences may have found the equation for happiness, thanks to a recent professorship in Finland. In May, Tadeusz Iwaniec returned from the University of Helsinki, where he spent the past six years…
Cold Case Justice Initiative Honored During National Civil Rights Conference
The Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at the College of Law received an award during the National Civil Rights Conference in Philadelphia, Miss., on June 15. The Civil Rights and Social Justice Award was presented to CCJI for its body…