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Health & Society

A Lifetime of Impact: Professor Sudha Raj Receives Prestigious Award for Contributions to Nutrition and Dietetics

Monday, October 21, 2024, By Matt Michael

For more than 20 years, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Teaching Professor and Graduate Program Director Sudha Raj in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics has been providing support, guidance and inspiration to generations of students who…

Campus & Community

New Degree Program Explores the Intersection of Law, Society and Policy

Monday, March 4, 2024, By Jessica Youngman

After completing her undergraduate studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, sophomore Stephanie Moon hopes to go to law school and, eventually, work as an attorney. She is interested in criminal justice and immigration issues. A new…

Campus & Community

‘My Heritage Defines and Guides Me:’ Students Discuss Importance of Celebrating Latine Heritage Month

Friday, September 15, 2023, By John Boccacino

What does it mean to be a descendant of Latine, Latinx, Latino, Latina and Hispanic heritage and trace your cultural roots to a Spanish-speaking community in Latin America, Central America, South America or the Caribbean? It’s nearly impossible to come…

Campus & Community

Using Monsoons of the Past to Predict Climate Conditions of the Future

Monday, November 14, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

The North American southwest has been suffering through weather extremes in recent years ranging from searing heatwaves and scorching wildfires to monsoon rainfalls that cause flash floods and mudslides. As temperatures around the world continue to rise because of global…

Syracuse University Impact

Student Volunteers With the Food Recovery Network Fight Waste and Feed People

Monday, April 25, 2022, By Jen Plummer

After the dining centers close, as most students are scattering back to their residence halls, to the library to study or toward other late-night activities, volunteers with the Food Recovery Network (FRN), a student organization comprising members from SUNY College…

Campus & Community

BBI Chairman Peter Blanck Guest Edits Journal of Disability Policy Studies

Monday, June 28, 2021, By Celestia Ohrazda

Supported decision-making (SDM) is a paradigm in which people use friends, family and professionals to help them address the situations and choices they encounter in everyday life. To examine emergent issues in SDM in research, law, and policy, the Journal…

STEM

Giving Back to Honor a Great Mentor

Monday, March 15, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

Peter Robison G’78 (Ph.D.) remembers joining professor emeritus of biology Richard Levy’s lab in 1974 during a particularly tumultuous time in our nation’s history. Richard Nixon had resigned from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal and students were feeling…

Campus & Community

Weekend Activities, Safely Socializing and Important Health Reminders

Thursday, September 10, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students: As we approach another weekend on the Syracuse University campus, we want to acknowledge your continued efforts to keep yourselves, your classmates and other members of our community safe and healthy. You have demonstrated that you are willing…

Health & Society

Barnes Center Staff Therapist Helps Students Gain Insight Through Mindfulness

Wednesday, June 10, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

Mansi Brat teaches students how to embrace the present moment and find serenity with one’s thoughts—an often elusive ideal to grasp in the anxieties of today’s perfectionism-driven world. A staff therapist with the Barnes Center at The Arch and facilitator…

Houston, We Have Splashdown

Friday, April 17, 2020, By News Staff

April 17 is the 50th anniversary of the splashdown of Apollo 13 after the aborted mission to the moon. The event was watched by an estimated 40 million Americans. The Apollo 13 space mission was made famous for not landing…