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Campus & Community

Award-Winning Jacques Safari Mwayaona G’22 Embraces AI for Learning—With Caution

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By Martin Walls

Combining his background in instructional design with an understanding of diversity and inclusion, Universal Design for Learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Jacques Safari Mwayaona G’22 is making a name for himself in the field of educational development. A Faculty Development…

Campus & Community

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon With Lunar New Year Events on Campus

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By News Staff

While many people here in the U.S. celebrated the start of a new year when the Gregorian calendar flipped from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1, as many as 2 billion people from Asian cultures around the globe joyfully observe the…

STEM

Tidal Disruption Events and What They Can Reveal About Black Holes and Stars in Distant Galaxies

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Astrophysicists from Syracuse University and the University of Leeds have collaborated with high school students in Syracuse to confirm the accuracy of an analytical model that can unlock key information about supermassive black holes and the stars they engulf. At…

Arts & Culture

Film Professor Receives Creative Capital Award for Documentary Feature

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By Erica Blust

Experimental filmmaker and animator Kelly Gallagher, an associate professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Film and Media Arts, has received a 2024 Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Award in Visual Arts…

Business & Economy

Poets&Quants Ranks Whitman’s Undergraduate Program No. 36 in Nation

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By Dawn McWilliams

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management has maintained its top 40 national ranking by Poets&Quants, coming it at No. 36 in the nation and No. 22 among private universities. Whitman was ranked No. 34 last year and No. 48…

STEM

‘Generative AI and the Future of Humanity’ the Topic of Spring Lecture March 6

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Data scientist and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Rumman Chowdhury will visit campus on Wednesday, March 6, as the featured speaker for the University’s annual Spring Lecture. Her talk, “Generative AI and the Future of Humanity,” will begin at 7 p.m….

Media Tip Sheets

Expert Available to Discuss Drone Attack in Jordan

Tuesday, January 30, 2024, By Vanessa Marquette

If you need an expert to speak on the drone attack in Jordan, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Robert Murrett is available for interviews. Robert Murrett is currently a professor of practice at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and deputy director…

Campus & Community

2 University Offices Merge to Become Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

Tuesday, January 30, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gretchen Ritter has announced the merger of the Office of Institutional Research (OIR) and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment (OIEA) to create the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA), effective…

Campus & Community

What Makes Syracuse University a Premier Research Institution: An Interview With Duncan Brown, Vice President for Research (Podcast)

Tuesday, January 30, 2024, By John Boccacino

Syracuse University has a reputation as a premier research institution, a destination university for faculty and students alike to pursue their ideas and creative activities on a campus that embraces and enhances that research culture. As vice president for research,…

Campus & Community

Celebrating Black History Month 2024

Tuesday, January 30, 2024, By News Staff

Thursday, Feb. 1, kicks off the annual Black History Month celebration and unveils the 2024 theme, “Existing Outside the Lines: The Colors of Resistance.” Through a lens of intersectionality as art, this theme encapsulates the rich diversity within the Black…