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Members of INSCT Offer Thoughts on North Korean Threat
Syracuse University faculty members William Banks, a professor in both the College of Law and Maxwell School, and Robert Murrett, who also is a professor at both the Maxwell School and the College of Law, offer their thoughts on the…
Urban Cinematheque 2017 Features over 20 Local Arts Organizations, Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’
Urban Video Project (UVP) and Light Work will present Urban Cinematheque 2017, Friday, Sept. 1, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. This year marks the sixth installment of this extremely successful end-of-summer event pairing a free outdoor film with an arts…
InclusiveU Featured in New York Times Story about College Opportunities for People with Disabilities
The New York Times recently featured a story that highlights Syracuse University students and staff in InclusiveU, a dynamic college program for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in the School of Education and another important innovation in the University’s…
ECS SummerStart Students Build Solar Ovens Using Recycled Materials
The challenge is both simple and complicated. Build an oven capable of baking a chocolate chip cookie—but it has to be solar powered and use everyday recycled items like cardboard boxes, plastic wrap and newspaper. For incoming engineering and computer…
Alumna Is First Woman to Get Full Philosophy Professorship at MSU Denver
As a doctoral student in philosophy, Carol V.A. Quinn G’02 studied Hebrew for two years and traveled to Israel, where she interviewed Holocaust survivors. She concedes she took a nontraditional approach to researching her dissertation, Considering the Nazi Data Debate:…
South Side Communication Center Youth Program Encourages Anything Is Possible
Every day the young people who attend the South Side Communication Center Youth Program have something different to look forward to. That includes speakers, art class, board games, sewing or just hanging out and engaging in good conversation. During the…
Book Memorializes Symposium in Tribute to Late, Great African Writer Chinua Achebe
In 2014, the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences held a daylong conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel “Arrow of God.” The symposium featured some of the…
Alumnus Launches DataCuse, Providing Public Access to City Data
Recently, the City of Syracuse announced the launch of a public data portal, DataCuse, that provides open access to batches of city data. The new tool is part of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s open data policy, to make more data about city…
Two Outstanding Alumni to Receive 2017 Eggers, Generation Orange Awards During Orange Central
America’s best-known contemporary folk artist and a young alumna dedicated to engaging Syracuse University alumni in Philadelphia will receive alumni awards recognizing their contributions during Orange Central homecoming weekend Oct. 5-8. The Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award will be…
Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction
James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”