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Health & Society

Power and Responsibility—Ethics In Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Matt Wheeler

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert Professor Dana Radcliffe says it is also a fitting principle…

STEM

Air Orange Team Competing to Reinvent How We Transmit Wireless Data

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Countless devices are connected through wireless media  and all of those phones, sensors and smart home networks are putting increasing pressure on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Right now, the spectrum is divided into exclusively licensed bands, thus creating enormous…

Arts & Culture

Top Architecture Schools of 2018: Syracuse Architecture repeats at No. 3 in U.S.

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Elaine Wackerow

For the second consecutive year, the Syracuse University School of Architecture undergraduate program has been ranked #3 in the nation by DesignIntelligence (DI) in its list of “Top Architecture Schools.” DI is the bimonthly journal of the Design Futures Council, considered…

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel Dean’s Convocation Brings Campus Together in Spirit and Song on Sunday Evenings

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Every Sunday evening at 7 p.m., Hendricks Chapel comes alive. Members of the Syracuse University community come together for the Dean’s Convocation, a spirited gathering featuring music and reflection. The idea of a weekly convocation emerged from the Syracuse campus…

Arts & Culture

Poets Explore Theme of Disability as a Way of Knowing at Oct. 24 Event

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Poets Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson will share verses from their book, “Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems,” at a reading Tuesday, Oct. 24, in celebration of Disability Awareness Month. The event, part of Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A…

Business & Economy

Sport Management Professor Receives Grants to Study 2018 Winter Olympics Youth Viewership

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

With final preparations underway for the 2018 Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin Feb. 9  in PyeongChang, South Korea, Falk College Assistant Professor of Sport Management Jamie Jeeyoon Kim is researching the negotiation of motivation and constraints in young people’s decision making…

Health & Society

Join the Be Wise Peer Educator Team

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Joyce LaLonde

The Be Wise peer education team within the Office of Health Promotion in the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience is recruiting new peer educators for the 2017-2018 academic year. As peer educators, students work with the Office of…

Campus & Community

Mission Accomplished! Syracuse University Soars in First-Ever Giving Day

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kim Infanti

Thank you! The Syracuse University community came together to make Tuesday an extraordinary day. Boost the ’Cuse, Syracuse’s 24 hours of giving, launched with an initial goal of 1,870 donors, and the historic day ended with nearly double that: 3,568 donors…

STEM

Physicists at Forefront of Multinational Experiment

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continue to make inroads on the world stage. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) group in the Department of Physics recently hosted the 85th Large Hardon Collider beauty (LHCb) Week in Lake Placid,…

Campus & Community

Candlelight Vigil for Mexico and Puerto Rico to be Held at Hendricks Chapel Thursday

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) will hold a candlelight vigil on the steps of Hendricks Chapel on Thursday, Oct. 19, to draw awareness to the continuing earthquake relief efforts in Mexico and hurricane relief…