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Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Updates the University Senate on Spring Planning, Searches and Diversity Efforts

Wednesday, December 9, 2020, By News Staff

In his remarks to the University Senate, Chancellor Kent Syverud provided updates on spring planning, the search for a leader for the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, progress on the provost search and the external review of the…

Campus & Community

Students Have More Options with Winterlude Online

Monday, December 7, 2020, By News Staff

This winter break, students can earn one to four credits in four weeks or less, boost their GPA or prepare for study abroad (when programs resume). All Winterlude classes will be held online and are open to Syracuse University students,…

Media, Law & Policy

Students, Faculty to Use Immersive Media to Explore the Complicated History—and Future—of Syracuse’s I-81

Thursday, December 3, 2020, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The construction of Interstate 81 in the 1960s cut through the city of Syracuse, leaving a wound that still pains the community five decades later. With newly secured funding from the Journalism 360 initiative, a team of Newhouse School students…

Campus & Community

New Staff within Office of Diversity and Inclusion Enhances Efforts to Create More Welcoming Campus

Monday, November 30, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

To continue to build its efforts in creating an equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive campus, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has welcomed new staff members and student advisors. The new staff members, working with Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer…

Campus & Community

Overcoming Barriers and Borders to Bring Students Together

Monday, November 30, 2020, By Eileen Korey

The pandemic has impacted every member of the Orange community—students, faculty and staff—and transformed the way people live, learn and work. Perhaps nowhere have these changes been felt more dramatically than among international students and those who serve them with…

Media, Law & Policy

Middle East Expert Available to Discuss Troop Withdrawal, Iran

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, By News Staff

If members of the press are looking for insight and historical perspective on how the withdrawal of U.S. troops impacts the Middle East, and/or the report that President Trump considered attacking Iran to stop its growing nuclear program, Middle East…

Health & Society

Black Voters Backed Biden-Harris – What’s Next?

Tuesday, November 10, 2020, By Daryl Lovell

Two Syracuse U. African American Studies professors share insight on why historical priorities of the Black community need to stay at the forefront for the Biden-Harris Administration. Casarae Abdul-Ghani: Biden-Harris will need to deliver on plans, promises Abdul-Ghani, PhD, is an…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Win International Design Workshop Grand Prize

Monday, November 9, 2020, By Julie Sharkey

A team of fifth-year School of Architecture students have won the grand prize at this year’s Busan International Architectural Design Workshop (BIADW)—an intensive academic program intended to encourage rigorous research and ideas creation of architecture major students from around the…

Media, Law & Policy

‘The Metaphysics of American Urban Violence’

Monday, November 9, 2020, By Lily Datz

Danielle Smith, professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, wrote an op-ed for LA Progressive titled “The Metaphysics of American Urban Violence.” Smith, who studies issues…

Media, Law & Policy

What Can Russia Expect From a Biden Presidency?

Monday, November 9, 2020, By News Staff

In January 2020, former Vice President Joseph Biden pledged to not only “impose real costs on Russia” for its transgressions at home and abroad but also “renew the U.S. commitment to arms control for a new era.” As such, it…