SU in the News: Monday, June 27

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE

Media coverage of the passing of Syracuse University alumnus Peter Falk includes reports by the Associated Press, Reuters, the Telegraph (U.K.), USA Today, Time magazine and the New York Times.

Research led by Kenneth Foster, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, on vision and how the process is initiated was reported in Medical News Today.

PhysOrg.com, MediLexicon and Medical News Today reported on biofilm development research led by Anthony Garza, associate professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences.

The Post-Standard reported on SU's response to a reported incident of student harassment.

FACULTY QUOTES

Christopher DeCorse, department chair and professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in an Agence France Presse story on slave trade relics found on Bunce Island near the Sierre Leone capital of Freetown.

Roy Gutterman, associate professor of communications law and journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, authored a Post-Standard op-ed on censorship, First Amendment rights and the declassification of the Pentagon Papers.

Jeffrey Stonecash, professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article exploring the influence of Catholics on the New York state legislature during the debate on same-sex marriage legislation. Stonecash is also quoted in a YNN (watch clip) report on President Obama's recent visit to Fort Drum.

Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, is quoted in a McClatchy Newspapers story about the demise of aging music idols, including most recently, Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

D. Bruce Carter, associate professor of child and family studies in the College of Human Ecology, is quoted in a Saturday Post-Standard story on New York state's passage of same-sex marriage legislation. Amit Taneja, associate director of the LGBT Resource Center at SU, and Brenda Wrigley, associate professor and chair of the public relations department at the Newhouse School, are also quoted in 9WSYR coverage.

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