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Campus & Community

Diversity and Inclusion Grant Proposal Deadline Extended

Friday, March 23, 2018, By News Staff

The Office of the Provost is extending the deadline for faculty to submit applications for the Unsurpassed Student Experience Diversity and Inclusion internal grants (USE D&I Grants) to Friday, April 6, at 5 p.m. These USE D&I Grants aim to help…

Media, Law & Policy

Without Legal Norms to Keep Up with Technology, Self-Driving Vehicles Are Accidents Waiting to Happen

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the National Transportation Safety Board will continue its investigation into a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle that hit and killed an Arizona woman in Tempe, Arizona over the weekend. A test driver from Uber was behind the…

Arts & Culture

New Films, Old Classics Will Fill CNY Film Festival Weekend

Thursday, March 15, 2018, By News Staff

CNY Film Festival 2018 is partnering with the College of Visual and Performing Arts film program, the CNY Humanities Corridor (from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) and the Le Moyne College Film Program to present a weekend…

Health & Society

Still Time to Take Part in RecycleMania

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, By News Staff

RecycleMania ends April 1, but that does not mean it is too late to help Syracuse University win the competition. The University is a single stream recycling campus—meaning all of your recyclables can be tossed in one recycling bin, or…

STEM

Researchers Close to Understanding Disease Mechanisms of ALS

Thursday, March 8, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are making strides in understanding the disease mechanism of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Carlos A. Castañeda, assistant professor of biology, chemistry and interdisciplinary neuroscience, and Thuy…

Media, Law & Policy

CRS’s Dana Cloud Publishes Book on Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Thursday, March 8, 2018, By Erica Blust

  Dana L. Cloud, professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, has published the new book “Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims…

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Provost Wheatly Details New Inclusivity Grants

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Michele Wheatly recently spoke with The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education about Syracuse University’s new initiative surrounding campus diversity. The new grant program looks to sustain and enhance Syracuse’s diversity and inclusivity…

Campus & Community

Free Yoga Class for Faculty and Staff, Mondays at 5:15 p.m.

Friday, March 2, 2018, By News Staff

Join yoga instructor Dara Harper every Monday during the spring 2018 semester to strengthen your mind and body with yoga. This alignment-based class will focus on directing energy and creating depth with the breath, while reaping the many health benefits…

USA Today

Twitter Takes Strides to Clean up Site

Thursday, March 1, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Twitter is starting to take strides to clean up ‘toxic interactions’ and posts online. They aim to use new partnerships and public help in doing so, something that social media expert and Newhouse professor Jennifer Grygiel says is a step…

Fox News

#MeToo and Seacrest Set To Clash at Red-Carpet Coverage

Thursday, March 1, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

The E Network plans to move ahead with Ryan Seacrest anchoring red carpet coverage of Sunday’s Academy Awards, despite accusations of sexual misconduct. For Robert Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture within the Newhouse…