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Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Professor Asks, Where Have Congressional Moderates Gone?

Thursday, May 25, 2017, By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

When journalists and pundits talk about the bitter partisanship in Congress today, they tend to point to three culprits: gerrymandering, the influence of big money and primary systems that favor more ideologically pure candidates. But when scholars have tested these…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Celebrates American Music Icon With ‘Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash’

Wednesday, May 24, 2017, By Joanna Penalva

From the songbook of the Man in Black himself comes the musical adaptation “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash.” Performed by a multi-talented cast of 10, the show features 38 Cash classics, including “I Walk the Line,” “A…

Campus & Community

Students Present on Variety of Topics at ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference

Friday, May 19, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Six students with a variety of research projects—such as community attachment resilience in a deindustrialized city, the effects of using different basketballs in NCAA play and 3D flow visualization in virtual reality—represented Syracuse University at this year’s ACC Meeting of…

Campus & Community

$5 Million Gift From Board of Trustees Chairman Steven W. Barnes ’82 to Help Create a State-of-the-Art Health, Wellness and Recreation Complex

Friday, May 19, 2017, By Sarah Scalese

Steve and Deborah Barnes cite University’s transformative, student-centric vision as motivation for gift A new state-of-the-art, health, wellness and recreation complex, which until now has been a conceptual component in the draft Campus Framework, is now one step closer to…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Announces Recipients of 43rd Annual Light Work Grants in Photography

Wednesday, May 17, 2017, By News Staff

Light Work has announced the 43rd annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2017 recipients are Mary Helena Clark, Joe Librandi-Cowan and Stephanie Mercedes. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work’s ongoing effort to…

Campus & Community

In Syracuse, Plans to Renew Forgotten Promise at Deeply Moving World War I Monument

Wednesday, May 17, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Bill Orzell understands the promise. It is reinforced for him by the sheer power of a statue in Billings Park in downtown Syracuse, across the street from the abandoned grandeur of the old Central High School. The statue portrays an…

Media, Law & Policy

Three Newhouse Graduate Students Present Business Concepts to Spotify Executives

Wednesday, May 17, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Spotify CMO and Syracuse University alumnus Seth Farbman G’89 was the guest of honor at the annual William and Ada Kussell Media Challenge Series, which took place in early February at the Newhouse School. More than 40 entrepreneurial and tech-savvy…

STEM

Charting the Course for Drones

Tuesday, May 16, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Researchers and businesses see incredible potential in the growing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry, but the emerging opportunities carry a lot of challenges. On May 3, more than 65 representatives from consulting, aerospace, engineering, insurance and imaging companies met with…

Campus & Community

Bioengineering Students Deliver Custom-Built ‘Otto-Mobile’ to Jowonio School in Syracuse (Video)

Wednesday, May 10, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Bioengineering students Katie Cooper ’17, Brendan Butcher ’17 and Zach Reers ’17 worked with the Jowonio School in Syracuse on their senior capstone design project. The students built a custom toy car that could help special needs students with mobility…

STEM

Wang Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Wednesday, May 10, 2017, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Yang Wang has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his research and education efforts on privacy management for people with disabilities, particularly…