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Arts & Culture

Green Teaching Summit: A Humanities Approach to Climate Education

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Can religion, philosophy, history, English and writing help tackle issues of climate change, environment and ecology? Absolutely, says Mike Goode, professor of English and outgoing William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. Through his Tolley professorship, a role…

Campus & Community

Welcome Week 2024: What You Need to Know

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By Christine Grabowski

With Welcome Week just a few days away, there is so much for new students to do and so many opportunities to learn about everything Syracuse University! SU News has put together a summary of links and things you need…

Campus & Community

‘A Lovely Legacy’: Falk College Remembers Professor Emerita Sarah ‘Sally’ Short  

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, By Matt Michael

By 1975, Sarah “Sally” Short, Ph.D., Ed.D., was already a legend on the Syracuse University campus. But on Jan. 3, 1975, she became world famous when an article appeared in The New York Times describing her unique teaching methods. The…

Veterans

Passion for Service Led Jennifer Pluta G’15 to Help Military-Connected Community

Monday, August 12, 2024, By John Boccacino

When Jennifer Pluta G’15 enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve on May 19, 1999, she had no grand plans for making a career out of her service to her country. Rather, feeling compelled to give back to her country, Pluta…

STEM

Chemistry Professor Collaborates With Brookhaven National Laboratory

Thursday, August 8, 2024, By News Staff

Tiny but mighty semiconductors named Quantum dots (Qdots) could someday drive hyper-powerful computers. Qdots are crystals squeezed in a space just a few nanometers in diameter. They are used today in products such as solar cells or LEDs and work…

Campus & Community

Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Shows History’s Views on Intellectual Disability

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Graduate students in the School of Education turned to primary source documents and artifacts at Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) to discover enlightening—and sometimes startling—information and examples of the ways that people with intellectual disability have been…

Campus & Community

Roster Revealed for 2024 CBT Celebrity Classic Basketball Game

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, By Keith Kobland

A news conference at the JMA Wireless Dome Tuesday had the feel of a family reunion. There was plenty of ribbing between participants about growing older and their skills fading, but make no mistake, their competitive nature still exists. After…

Campus & Community

New OrangeNow Mobile App Puts the Entire Orange Experience at Your Fingertips

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, By Jen Plummer

“Where can I eat now?” “What events are happening on campus now?” “What assignment should I work on now?” “What class do I have now?” To help students answer all these questions and more with just a few finger taps,…

Campus & Community

Undergraduate Students Celebrate the Fruits of Their Summer Research

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

This summer, undergraduates Xuezhu (Stephanie) Hua ’25, Kaniya Ross ’25 and Edward Lu ’26 have been deeply engaged in research. Hua, a nutrition science major in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, has investigated the effects of fish…

Media, Law & Policy

‘I Can’t Wait to Get Started’: Q&A With New College of Law Dean Terence Lau

Monday, August 5, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

After graduating from the College of Law in 1998, Terence Lau embarked on a legal career that took him from Detroit to France to Thailand to the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked in the Office of the General Counsel at…