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Professor Maria Brown Leads Aging Studies Institute’s Community Collaboration to Benefit Older Adults Living at Home with Cognitive Decline
A recently launched pilot project to screen for cognitive decline as part of routine community health services currently offered to older adults is expected to demonstrate the benefits of early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias (AD/D). One major…
Is Cyber Monday Still a Thing? Retail Expert Says Its ‘Uniqueness’ Is Disappearing
According to the National Retail Federation, more than 160 million people are expected to shop over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, with 71 percent of those consumers planning to hit brick-and-mortar and online retailers on Black Friday. Ray Wimer is an…
Foundations Scholarship Awarded to Five Undergraduate Students
Foundations, a student development series that started last year, assists students in building the foundation for essential life skills, including leadership, career development, financial wellness, community involvement, healthy relationships, self-care and physical health and nutrition. Each semester, undergraduate students who…
TEDx Syracuse University Issues Call for Speakers
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…
Former Iraq War Refugee, Entrepreneur to Speak on ‘Rewriting Tragedy: Empowering the Displaced’
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…
5 Questions Answered: Amazon Opening Headquarters in New York and Arlington, VA
Today, Amazon announced it had chosen New York City and Northern Virginia as the new location for its second headquarters. The company plans to invest $2.5 billion in both locations, and hire as many as 25,000 employees in each location….
University Honors Trans Day of Remembrance
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center is hosting the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance commemoration on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in 214 Slocum Hall. The event is recognized internationally on Nov. 20; the LGBT Resource…
Annual Wali Lecture to Address U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy Nov. 29
The growing dangers of the current arms race is the subject of the next Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities, hosted by the Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Frank N….
Research Training Program for Veterans Now Accepting Applications
To improve access to undergraduate research experiences in the area of trauma for groups typically underrepresented in this research—including veterans—a collaborative venture of the Falk College, SUNY Oswego and SUNY Upstate Medical University is now recruiting students for its 2019…
Syracuse University Press Announces Its Inaugural Veterans Writing Award
In keeping with Syracuse University’s longstanding commitment to serving the interests of veterans and their families and recognizing the role a university press can play in giving voice to emerging writers, Syracuse University Press, in cooperation with the Institute for…