STEM
Disrupting Traditional Gender Roles
Both partners in today’s modern couple may each have professional lives outside the home but two careers still equals three jobs—two professions, plus managing a home. And for women, oftentimes, that third job still remains their role. A recent SU Advance speaker pointed out ways to correct that imbalance.
Reformatted Data Science MOOC Offering Begins Oct. 28
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) is repeating its popular massive online open course (MOOC) offering in data science in an adapted form, beginning Oct. 28. Based on participant feedback, the free course now is being offered as a self-paced…
Apply to Pitch at IDEA Juicer
Students across campus have ideas. And in the spring, those students can participate in several seed funding competitions to fund their ideas. They can even win as much as $25,000. But what happens if students have an idea but need…
Protecting Your Devices and Data
Securing your personal computer, tablet and smartphone—and the data they contain—is an ongoing process. The following steps and precautions can protect you from identity theft and data loss by drastically reducing the likelihood that your device will be hacked, infected…
Nicholson to Lead Session on Transformative Games
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Scott Nicholson will lead a session on transformative games at a meeting of the New York State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) tomorrow….
SU’s Mark Bowick to Be Honored as New Steele Professor Oct. 31
Mark Bowick, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed the new Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics. The Steele Professorship is one of the University’s oldest and is named for the 19th-century SU trustee….
iSchool Receives $7 Million Gift from Alumna’s Estate
The School of Information Studies has received a landmark gift of $7 million from the estate of Estelle Wilhelm ’38 (Arts and Sciences), G’39 (iSchool).
Women in STEM Discussion Is Oct. 18
SU Advance will present Joan Bennett of Rutgers University in its next Conversations on Equity and Excellence series on Friday, Oct. 18, at 10 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. Bennett’s talk, “Science, Sex Chromosomes and…
SU hosts Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry Conference
More than two dozen mathematicians from New York State and Ontario will converge at Syracuse University for the 23rd annual “Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.” The conference, which is attended primarily by mathematicians from SU, Cornell…
iSchool Launches Crowdsourced ‘Fuel’ Program Funding Campaign
The School of Information Studies (iSchool), whose national reputation is built on innovation in the information field, has initiated a student programs development campaign with some twists. The effort is modeled on the crowdsourcing style of fundraising, and it uses…