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Students Get Challenges, Experience in Cyber Defense Contest

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, By Diane Stirling

It was a rollercoaster kind of weekend for the 150 college students competing in the 2015 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Hosted this year by the School of Information Studies (iSchool), the regional event pits teams from 10 Northeastern colleges…

STEM

Lessons from the Fishbowl

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, By Amy Manley

Just before Spring Break, two dozen eighth- and ninth-grade students filed into a biology lab in the Life Sciences Complex, where they were greeted by tanks of petite, striped fish. Their assignment? To study the animals up close. The students…

Campus & Community

Members Named to Group to Assess SA, GSO Concerns on Free Speech

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, By News Staff

Four students, a faculty member and a staff member have been appointed to a new working group to consider revisions to the University’s Computer and Electronic Policy that will address concerns regarding free speech across campus. Chancellor Kent Syverud announced…

Happy 145th Birthday, Syracuse University

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, By Keith Kobland

Birthdays are typically marked by giving, but National Orange Day is marked by giving back. National Orange Day, March 24, is a day of celebration, considering it’s Syracuse University’s 145th birthday, and the 25th birthday for our beloved mascot, Otto…

Campus & Community

Celebrating Otto

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

He’s always there with a smile, a hug or a high five. Otto the Orange has helped the University celebrate its most exciting events. Now, the University community is celebrating the lovable mascot on his 25th birthday. Otto will be…

Media, Law & Policy

Cold Case Justice Initiative Presents Case on U.S. Human Rights Violations to United Nations

Monday, March 23, 2015, By Scott McDowell

Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald, law professors and co-directors of the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at the College of Law, were at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, during the week of March 16. There they met with staff…

Campus & Community

Billy Joel Rocks the Loud House

Monday, March 23, 2015, By News Staff

Billy Joel took to the stage at the Carrier Dome Friday night for his record-breaking seventh appearance. He performed such hits as “Pressure,” “Piano Man” and “Uptown Girl.” Newhouse student Chase Guttman ’18 gives us a look at some of…

Arts & Culture

E.C. Osondu G’07 Returns to Syracuse for Carver Reading Series March 25

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Raymond Carver Reading Series in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with E.C. Osondu G’07, the series’ James Breuer Distinguished Author. On Wednesday, March 25, Osondu will participate in a Q&A session from 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama Tackles the Bard and Blasphemy in ‘Measure for Measure’

Friday, March 20, 2015, By News Staff

Hypocrites, beware! Such is the matter of this profound and intriguing late comedy by Shakespeare. When Duke Vincentio of Vienna inexplicably hands over power to Lord Angelo, a man of self-professed puritanism, he lays a trap that ensnares the falsely…

Health & Society

Pairing of Music Education Majors, BMW Preschoolers Creates Beautiful Music

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Michele Barrett

A creative collaboration involving BMW teachers and music education faculty members recently connected college-aged and preschool students for a valuable learning experience.