Videographers at student-run web portal The NewsHouse are honing their storytelling skills by taking a worldwide view right on the Syracuse University campus. As part of a project assigned by their instructor, Jonathan Glass, students conducted interviews with international students enrolled at SU. The main question: What’s it like trying to transition to life in the U.S.? The text and video packages produced by NewsHouse students paint an extraordinary mosaic of the variety of young people on campus and what life is like for them back home, thousands of miles away. Below are two examples of their work. You can access the full story here.
Syracuse University today announced the commitment of $1 million annually to support a new Center for Undergraduate Research, the collaborative vision of students, faculty, staff and administrators to strengthen the University’s position as a preeminent and inclusive student-focused research institution….
Syracuse University has approved the creation of seven multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary themes for the first round of its Cluster Hires Initiative, along with funding for 53 faculty positions. Academic cluster creation and cluster hires are an effective approach to strengthening…
Are you exploring an innovative idea or concept that has yet to reach its full potential? Are you pursuing interesting projects in your local community? Do you want to spark change in the lives of people? The student organizers at TEDx…
The Nonfiction Reading Series of the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition is hosting a lecture and reading with Ahmed Badr on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 4-5:30 p.m. in 319 Sims Hall. Badr is an Iraq War refugee and…
Jay Dolmage, associate professor of English language and literature at The University of Waterloo and author of the groundbreaking book “Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education” (Michigan University Press, 2017), will visit Syracuse University from Dec. 4-6. He will meet…
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