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David Bowie under a glowing sign that reads BOWIE
Society & Culture
January 11, 2016 | 04:03 pm

Rock history remembers David Bowie

David Bowie, who died Sunday at the age of 69, wasn’t the first performer to create an alter ego. But as music professor and director of the Institute for Popular Music John Covach explains, the difference with Bowie was how his personas would change over the years, sometimes shifting drastically.

topics: featured-post, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach,
historic illustration of Elmira Castle
Society & Culture
November 25, 2015 | 09:52 am

Archaeologist to discuss West Africa’s slave castles

Syracuse University professor and author Christopher R. DeCorse will discuss how archaeology has shown that African cultures were both transformed and maintained throughout the Atlantic World.

topics: Department of Anthropology, events, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences,
beer mug with Instagram photos floating in it and hashtags like booze, drunk, and alcoholicproz
Society & Culture
October 29, 2015 | 10:34 am

Data mining Instagram feeds can point to teenage drinking patterns

By extracting information from Instagram images and hashtags, computer science researchers have shown they can expose patterns of underage drinking more cheaply and faster than conventional surveys.

topics: data science, Department of Computer Science, Henry Kautz, Jiebo Luo, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, social media, teenagers,
historical image of the three Fox sisters
Society & Culture
October 19, 2015 | 04:51 pm

New book novelizes rise and fall of Rochester’s infamous mediums

Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters, a new book published by the University’s Open Letter Press, details the rise and fall of the infamous 12 and 15-year-old mediums who convinced the world they could communicate with dead.

topics: Department of English, Jennifer Grotz, literary translation, Open Letter, School of Arts and Sciences, translation,