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Crowston, Erickson Receive Inaugural NSF Convergence Award
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members聽Kevin Crowston聽and聽Ingrid Erickson聽are the recipients of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Award, which they will use to establish a research coordination network (RCN) to focus on sociotechnological interactions between work and technology design…
Hemsley to Speak on Viral Spread of Fake News
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor聽Jeff Hemsley聽will speak about the reasons behind the viral spread of fake news on the Internet in a lecture held at the Skaneateles Library on Aug. 24. While social media can be a democratizing…
What Is OJ Simpson’s Net Worth? Disgraced Celebrity Has Lost Millions Ahead Of Parole Hearing
Dennis Deninger, a professor of practice at the Falk School, said that it would be difficult, but not impossible, for Simpson to make聽money now that he has been released on parole from prison. “There’s no amount of money that will…
How Egypt Factors into North Korean Tensions
The recent pulling of funds from Egypt could be rooted in the United States continuous movements against North Korea, experts are saying. This includes Maxwell political science professor Frederick Carriere, who spoke with CNBC about this action. “Egypt might be…
黑料不打烊 Shines at American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal
More than two-dozen researchers from the Department of Sociology are on the world stage at the American Sociological Association (ASA)鈥檚 112th Annual Meeting in Montreal. The theme of this year鈥檚 meeting is 鈥淐ulture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.鈥…
Mary Kiernan Inducted into American Academy of Chefs
In July, Associate Teaching Professor Mary Kiernan was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs (AAC), the honor society of the American Culinary Foundation (ACF). The ACF was established in 1929. Today, the professional chefs鈥 organization boasts 17,500 members and…
How to protect your sports trademarks
Falk faculty members聽John Wolohan, Jeeyoon Kim and Patrick Walsh write for Athletic Business on how businesses can protect their trademarks. “Since companies, teams and organizations work hard and spend a lot of money to develop the right image, it is…
Selfies Are Everywhere鈥擝ut Why?
Selfies: the self-portraits of the digital age. These photos posted on social media serve as a way to document a new haircut, a vacation or a night out on the town. But researchers from the Newhouse School have taken a…
Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy
Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…
Dessa Bergen-Cico: We are all ‘Same Same, but Different’
Since June 12, Dessa Bergen-Cico, associate professor of public health in Falk College, has been participating in a three-month Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The program covers such areas as peace, conflict prevention and resolution. For…