STEM
iSchool officially named Project Management Institute education provider
The Project Management Institute (PMI), the global organization responsible for certifying official project management professionals, has officially named the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) a registered education provider.
Students invited to learn about spring break in Silicon Valley opportunity
The School of Information Studies will offer a two-credit course this spring that takes enrolled graduate and undergraduate students to Silicon Valley for spring break 2011.
UBM donates four passes, valued at more than $8,000, for Syracuse iSchool students to attend 2010 Interop
Four students in the M.S. in telecommunications and network management program in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) are attending the 2010 Interop Conference and Exhibition in New York City.
Yale’s Shelly Kagan to speak on ‘ethics of cloning’ Oct. 27
The integrated learning major in ethics in The College of Arts and Sciences will present a lecture by Shelly Kagan, the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.
Falling in love is ‘more scientific than you think,’ according to new study by SU professor
A new meta-analysis study conducted by Syracuse University Professor Stephanie Ortique is getting attention around the world. The groundbreaking study, “The Neuroimaging of Love,” reveals falling in love can elicit not only the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine, but also affects intellectual areas of the brain.
iSchool professor publishes book on need for more people educated as information professionals
The book focuses on the disparity between the growth of careers within the information industry and the apparent lack of interest in studying and working in the field within the United States.
iSchool Professor awarded NSF grant to study socially intelligent computing
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Kevin Crowston $478,858 over three years to investigate the capabilities of social computational computer support systems in the context of citizen science.
Davidson presented with Wayne W. Stinchcomb Award
Barry Davidson, a Meredith Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been awarded the Wayne W. Stinchcomb Award for outstanding research, service and contributions to the field of composite materials.
iSchool’s Milton Mueller writes new book on global politics of Internet governance
MIT Press has published Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Milton Mueller’s “Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance,”
SU Project Advance forensic seminars probe crime, fungi
Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) brings two of Europe’s foremost forensic botanists to the United States this week for SUPA’s Forensic Science fall seminars. Patricia Wiltshire and David Hawksworth will be the featured speakers at the downstate seminar Wednesday, Oct. 13, on…