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Become a Leader in Cybersecurity this Fall

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By Matt Wheeler

In today’s hyperconnected world, cyber attacks on our institutions and personal information are increasing. Governments and industries alike need well-trained experts to protect us. This fall, the Cybersecurity Semester (CSS) returns to Syracuse University to teach computer science and computer engineering students…

Campus & Community

Be Alert for Tax Season Email Scams

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By Christopher C. Finkle

It’s getting to be that time of year when scammers and phishers are going to use tax season as a pretext to try and steal usernames and passwords or to install malicious software—malware—on users’ computers. These phishing emails will likely…

STEM

U.S. News Ranks College of Engineering and Computer Science, iSchool No. 11 for Online Graduate Programs

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By J.D. Ross

Online graduate programs offered by Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) and School of Information Studies (iSchool) have been ranked No. 11 for best information technology programs for 2019 by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Discusses Orange Pride and Four Important Goals in 2019 Winter Message to the Community

Monday, January 14, 2019, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke of the many reasons for Orange pride and four important goals for the next six months in his Winter Message, which he delivered on Monday, Jan. 14, to a standing-room-only audience in the Jack and Laura…

STEM

Syracuse University Student Ventures Advance in National Round of Student Startup Madness

Monday, January 14, 2019, By News Staff

Syracuse University student startups OptechVR—co-founded by Whitman first-year student Matt Shumer and Newhouse first-year student Sam Hollander—and Tableau Media—a venture by Hanna Seraji, an anthropology, women’s and gender studies and communication and rhetorical studies major, along with SU alumna Gabriela…

NPR

NPR Asks if Sports Can Make a City

Monday, January 14, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus

Rick Burton, Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, was interviewed on the NPR show 1A for the episode “Can Sports Make a City?” In the NPR episode, Burton provides some of his…

Military Times

Veteran Unemployment Rates Reach New Low

Monday, January 14, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus

Nick Armstrong, senior director for research and evaluation at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, was interviewed by Military Times for the article “Vet unemployment hit an all-time low in 2018. Mission accomplished?” In the article, Armstrong says that “the…

The Hill

Maxwell School Dean Writes About Government Shutdown

Monday, January 14, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus

An opinion column by David Van Slyke, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Louis A. Bantle chair in business and government policy, was published by The Hill. In the story entitled “Politicians fail to see…

Campus & Community

Apply Today for Invent@SU Summer 2019

Monday, January 14, 2019, By News Staff

This summer, Invent@SU  returns to transform undergraduate students into inventors as they design, prototype and pitch original devices. The immersive invention accelerators will be held at the Fisher Center in New York City (May 13-June 21) and on campus (July 1-Aug. 9).  The…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Student Selected for BuzzFeed/Instagram VerticalU Video Workshop

Monday, January 14, 2019, By Lani Rich

When Stefanie Grafstein heard about VerticalU, a new vertical video workshop launched last year by media partners BuzzFeed and Instagram, she jumped at the chance to apply. “I realized that shooting television vertically could be the next big step in…