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Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides
A geologist in the College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes—not climate change, as previously thought—affect the rate of landslides in Peru. The finding is the subject of an article in Nature Geoscience (Nature Publishing Group, 2014) by…
Individuals, Student Groups Invited to Audition for 2015 MLK Celebration
Individual students and student performing groups are invited to audition to perform at Syracuse University’s 30th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Remember. Celebrate. Act” on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in the Carrier Dome. Applications are available at http://Hendricks.syr.edu and…
Human Rights Lawyer to Speak on U.N. Disability Treaty Nov. 4
Janet Lord, senior vice president for human rights and inclusive development at the Burton Blatt Institute and senior researcher for the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 12:30 p.m. in 341 Eggers Hall. Her…
Campaign Data Collection and Analysis is First Project in iSchool’s New BITS Lab
As Election Day approaches, candidate advertisements and campaign messages consume the broadcast airwaves. But it’s another kind of political chatter—social in nature, occurring in bits and bytes, by and between candidates and among voters online—that several faculty members at the…
NPR Host and Author Michele Norris to Keynote 30th Annual MLK Celebration
Michele Norris, National Public Radio host and special correspondent and creator of the Race Card Project (which involves people constructing six-word essays about race, which they then write on postcards), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 30th annual…
HathiTrust Research Center Seeks Proposals for Collaborative Projects
The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects that utilize the HathiTrust Digital Library and Research Center computational tools to address scholarly research questions. Examples of such collaborations include, but are not limited to: running…
Q&A: Political Communication Expert Guy Golan Talks about Polls
Guy J. Golan, associate professor of public relations at the Newhouse School, is a former political campaign professional who specializes in international political communications. With midterm elections coming up in less than a week, we asked him about the state…
Faculty to Present Research at Cybersecurity Conference
The College of Engineering and Computer Science has had three papers accepted by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Computer and Communications Security, a prestigious security conference that will take place this November in Scottsdale, Ariz. It is a notable…
Ryan Milcarek’s NASA Experience Fuels Inspiration
Ryan Milcarek spent mornings over a long weekend in May dining with astronauts. There were brief introductions—Where are you from? What do you study?—But the conversation quickly turned to combustion and fuel cells. Over eggs and coffee, veteran astronaut Jerry…
Free Ultrasound Visual Feedback Treatment for Children with Speech Articulation Problems
A Research Study at Syracuse University Who is Eligible? Children ages 10-14 with articulation problems on the /r/ sound are now being recruited for a study. This includes children who have a history of childhood apraxia of speech, as well…