Syracuse University’s iSchool, City of Syracuse, Onondaga County, and Microsoft Outline Tech/Innovation Initiatives for Education, Skills Training, Jobs, New Economy.
Yaxing Yao, a fifth-year doctoral student at the iSchool, has earned a Best Paper Honorable Mention award from the Association of Computing Machinery’s Conference, CSCW 2019.
Among the new arrivals at the iSchool this fall is one of the largest doctoral cohorts the school has ever seen.
Three iSchool students - Nobi Nyabonda, Cayla Dorsey, and Sophie Estep - will be attending a prestigious conference with some of the biggest names in entrepreneurship.
The iSchool has its career fair every semester and iSchool alumni often come back as representatives of their companies to recruit. At this semester’s career fair, more than 40 companies participated.
Among the newcomers to the iSchool this academic year are two post-doctoral scholars, Melinda Sebastian and Mei Zhang. The iSchool sat down with them to learn more about their past work and research.
Dozens of information-related research topics were on visual display and up for lively discussion at the School of Information Studies’ second Research Day last week.
The initiative positions the entities as collaborators for Smart Cities technology development, research, and training, and for advancing the City’s energy use, public safety, and job creation.
While many universities teach blockchain courses, most focus on cryptocurrencies. In contrast, this course centers on managing blockchains for enterprise applications.
The project, “Collaborative Research: Social Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer through Scientific Mentorship and Publication,” received $176,475 from the National Science Foundation.
