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Syracuse Student Sandbox Luncheon Planned
A luncheon event to celebrate the end of the Syracuse Student Sandbox incubator’s summer 2017 session will be held on Thursday, June 29, in the Sandbox space at the Syracuse Technology Garden. Sandbox participants, their mentors, and School of Information…
iSchool Mourns the Death of Professor Emerita Antje Bultmann Lemke
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Emerita Antje Bultmann Lemke passed away on May 15. She was 98 years old. Born in Breslau, Germany, in 1918, Lemke was the daughter of Helene and Rudolf Bultmann. Her father was one of…
Stripling to Receive ALA’s Joseph W. Lippincott Award
Barbara Stripling, senior associate dean and associate professor of practice at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has been announced as the recipient of the 2017 Joseph W. Lippincott Award. This annual award is sponsored by Joseph W. Lippincott, III…
Wang Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Yang Wang has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his research and education efforts on privacy management for people with disabilities, particularly…
Student Donation Brings Charge to Electric Vehicles on Campus (Video)
As a student entrepreneur who runs the clean-tech company SparkCharge, Josh Aviv ’14 (and a graduate student in the School of Information Studies) says he was surprised to learn there were no locations on campus to charge an electric vehicle….
Syracuse University Student Entrepreneurs Win Big at New York Business Plan Competition
Syracuse University student entrepreneurship teams dominated the eighth annual New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC), which took place on Friday, April 28, at SUNY Poly’s NanoTech Complex in Albany. Syracuse teams captured the $100,000 grand prize and took first-place honors…
iSchool’s NEXIS Lab Plans Four Talks and Research Showcase
The NEXIS lab at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) has planned four student talks and a research showcase for the week of May 1. NEXIS (New Explorations in Information and Science) is a student-based, membership-driven research lab at the…
Professor Jennifer-Stromer Galley on How Data can Help Intelligence Officials
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor in the School of Information Studies, was quoted in a story in story in GCN Magazine titled “Building machine parts for intelligence analysts.”
iSchool Announces New Master’s Degree in Applied Data Science
With the increasing amount of large data sets being collected by corporations and institutions across all sectors of the economy, the demand for individuals with skills in data processing and analytics is growing dramatically. Recent studies show that the time…
Semaan Secures NSF Grant to Address Veteran Transitions with Technology
What happens to people after they experience a disruptive event in their lives—a job loss, physical or emotional trauma, a natural disaster, a disease diagnosis, returning from war or homelessness? These life changes, or invisible crises, can be debilitating on…