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Shared Competencies to Enhance Undergraduate Student Learning

Monday, March 4, 2019, By News Staff

To help better prepare students to be engaged leaders in a global society, the Syracuse University Senate endorsed six shared competencies last semester. These educational goals characterize what every Syracuse University undergraduate student should know and be able to do…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium ‘Stories’ Bring CNY History Alive

Monday, March 4, 2019, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong exploration of “Stories” with three events in March. On March 5, Susan Hill, associate professor of history at the University of Toronto (UT), will discuss “Undoing Bad Press: Rethinking Haudenosaunee Historical Events Erroneously Portrayed in…

Campus & Community

Presentation Focuses on Diversity in Graduate Education Through Admissions Practices

Monday, March 4, 2019, By News Staff

Educators Julie Posselt and Casey Miller will make the case for efforts to increase diversity in graduate education, and provide practical strategies for doing so by rethinking typical recruitment and admission processes in a presentation on Friday, March 15, from…

Campus & Community

University Lectures Presents NPR’s Nina Totenberg Tuesday Night

Monday, March 4, 2019, By Kevin Morrow

The University Lectures series welcomes award-winning NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg on Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event—featuring the veteran journalist in an on-stage conversation with College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise—is free…

Campus & Community

VPA School of Design Students Win Syracuse University ACC InVenture Prize

Thursday, February 28, 2019, By News Staff

A group of prominent judges—including investors, technologists, funders and successful entrepreneurs—selected College of Visual and Performing Arts School of Design students Quinn King (left) and Alec Gillinder (right) as winners of the prestigious ACC InVenture Prize at Syracuse University. The…

STEM

Applications Open for Peak2Peak, Innovate Ireland Immersion Experience Programs

Thursday, February 28, 2019, By J.D. Ross

Applications are now open for the final two School of Information Studies (iSchool) immersion experience programs of the 2019 calendar year. The programs, Peak2Peak and Innovate Ireland, are open to all graduate and undergraduate students at Syracuse University, regardless of…

Campus & Community

VPA Director of Student Success to Serve as Middle States Peer Evaluator

Wednesday, February 27, 2019, By Erica Blust

Carol J. Ruffin, director of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Office of Student Success, has been named a peer evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). MSCHE peer evaluators are qualified higher education professionals…

Campus & Community

Food Services Staff Member Dishes Up Warm Welcome to Schine Diners

Tuesday, February 26, 2019, By Kathleen Haley

Dorothy “Dottie” Russell is surrounded every weekday by the friends she has made over the years as she prepares the day’s salad fixings and keeps a busy pace monitoring the salad bar in Schine Dining. There are the students to…

Campus & Community

Applications Now Open for Health and Wellness Peer Educators

Tuesday, February 26, 2019, By Teagan Cyan Peacock

The peer education teams within the Office of Health Promotion (OHP) are accepting applications for 2019-20 peer educator positions. All students are encouraged to apply, especially those with a passion for health and wellness. The deadline to apply is March…

STEM

New Material Developed at Syracuse University is a Biomedical Breakthrough

Monday, February 25, 2019, By Matt Wheeler

Researchers in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed a material—a new kind of shape memory polymer (SMP)—that could have major implications for health care. SMPs are soft, rubbery, “smart” materials that can change shape in response to…