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Million Milestone: Barnes Center at The Arch Reaches One Millionth Recreation Visitor 

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, By News Staff

Early this fall, the Barnes Center at The Arch welcomed its millionth visitor to the recreation and fitness areas. Ellie Allen, a first-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the proud recipient of the honor and was…

Campus & Community

Helping Ranchers Learn From the Wild

Monday, November 28, 2022, By News Staff

Tropical forests garner headlines as greenhouse gas storehouses. But wild grasslands are crucial, lesser-known candidates as climate heroes. Wild grasslands—from the African savanna to the North American prairie—have the potential to soak up vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the…

Campus & Community

SUNY ESF Graduates Launch Their Science Teaching Careers Together at the School of Education

Sunday, November 20, 2022, By Martin Walls

Syracuse University’s relationship with its close neighbor, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been a long and fruitful one. After all, SUNY ESF was founded as a unit of SU in 1911, and…

Quartz

Elon Musk Has The Potential To Completely Change Twitter

Thursday, November 17, 2022, By Julia Mazzer

Roy Gutterman, associate professor of magazine, news and digital journalism and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School, was featured in the Quartz article “The ways in which Elon Musk could change Twitter on the inside…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Reports to University Senate on Highlights From November Full Board of Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, By News Staff

On Nov. 16, Chancellor Kent Syverud addressed the University Senate, providing an update on the recent full Board of Trustees meeting and other topics. The full text of his remarks appears below. “The full Board of Trustees had its November…

Health & Society

Food Studies Graduate Students Getting Their Hands Dirty at a ‘Living Agroecological Lab’

Tuesday, November 15, 2022, By Matt Michael

On a cool but sunny early October morning on Syracuse University’s South Campus, eight graduate students from the Food Studies program in the Falk College sat in a circle at Pete’s Giving Garden and talked dirt. No, not gossip about…

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…

Campus & Community

Setting Up First-Generation College Students for Success

Tuesday, November 8, 2022, By John Boccacino

“It takes a village to raise a child.” This ancient proverb has been used by everyone from teachers to elected officials to describe the important role a community plays in creating a safe, healthy environment where children can grow and…

Campus & Community

Jeffrey M. Scruggs Selected to Lead Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees

Friday, November 4, 2022, By News Staff

Syracuse University today announced that Jeffrey M. Scruggs, a highly engaged trustee and respected member of the global finance community, has been selected to lead the University’s Board of Trustees, succeeding current Board Chair Kathleen A. Walters ’73, whose term…

Health & Society

Research Fueled by Chemistry Professors Helps Advance Artificial Enzyme Engineering

Friday, November 4, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

While corrosion resistance, durability and low cost make plastic a very efficient resource, one of its major drawbacks is the harm it poses to the environment. According to a report from Greenpeace USA, 51 million tons of plastic waste were generated…