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New ELI Director Announced
David Lind has been appointed the new director of the English Language Institute at University College. Lind has a B.A. in history from Cornell University and an M.Ed in applied linguistics from Open University. For the past two years, Lind…
Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code
According to the National Center for Women in Technology’s 2016 analysis, only 26 percent of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…
Got a Meeting? Take a Walk and Be Entered for a Chance to Win a Garmin Fitness Tracker
Ready to walk the walk with a walking meeting? If so, you have the chance to win a Garmin Fitness Tracker. The more walking meetings you participate in, the greater your chance of winning. Getting out of the office and…
Four Questions with Carrie Abbott about Syracuse Welcome
With Syracuse University preparing to welcome its newest students to campus this August, the Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs is busy putting the final touches on Syracuse Welcome 2017, Syracuse’s new student orientation program. Each year, the staff and…
Q&A: Margaret Voss on Coffee-Longevity Link
Margaret Voss is a professor of practice in Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition. She teaches courses in nutritional biochemistry, metabolism and nutrigenomics. She shared her thoughts about recently released research that seems to indicate that…
“What We Need is Awareness of the Treatment of Anorexia”
Harriet Brown, professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, is available for comment about “To the Bone,” a new Netflix movie that explores a young woman’s battle with anorexia. Professor Brown is the author of Brave…
Alumnus Posthumously Named to National Mining Hall of Fame
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum (NMHFM) in Leadville, Colorado, will posthumously honor an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences. Vincent E. McKelvey ’39, a noted research geologist who directed the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 1971-77, is part of…
Undergraduate Research Gets Major Boost from New Program
Syracuse’s Center for Fellowship & Scholarship Advising (CFSA) recently chose nine undergraduate researchers to participate in the newly created Young Research Fellows Program (YRFP). Funding for this Universitywide program, including a two-year stipend, is made possible by a gift from Elliott Portnoy…
University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to Syracuse University to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…