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Campus & Community

Global Fulbright Scholars at University for Summer Immersion Program

Friday, July 24, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

Thirty-four Fulbright scholars from around the world have arrived at the University for an immersive four-week English language program. The program, hosted by the English Language Institute, serves to provide international graduate students with language skills and cultural competency before…

Business & Economy

Graduate Students Work to Strengthen Local Economy in Start-Up New York Program

Thursday, July 23, 2015, By News Staff

“Start-Up New York is about the marriage of the community with the businesses and the university. It’s about really finding the right fit in all those different areas: What’s mutually beneficial? What helps the community?” says Olevia Mitchell, a first-year…

Academic Strategic Plan Implementation Oversight Committee

Thursday, July 23, 2015, By News Staff

The following people have been named as members of the Academic Strategic Plan Implementation Oversight Committee: 1. Liz Liddy, Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost, Chair 2. Shiu-Kai Chin, Professor, Engineering; Provost’s Faculty Fellow, Facilitator 3. Andria Costello Staniec, Associate Provost…

STEM

iSchool Welcomes New Assistant Dean for Advancement

Wednesday, July 22, 2015, By J.D. Ross

Kimberly Pietro has joined the School of Information Studies as assistant dean for advancement. She began on July 21. Pietro comes to the iSchool from SUNY Cortland, where she had served as the vice president for institutional advancement and executive…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Begins Online Master’s in Communications with Cohort of 31 Students

Tuesday, July 21, 2015, By News Staff

Courses in Communications@Syracuse, the new online master’s degree program offered by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, began Tuesday, July 21, with an inaugural class of 31 students from nine states across the U.S. Communications@Syracuse offers students from anywhere…

STEM

MOST Young Women Scientist Camp

Monday, July 20, 2015, By Keith Kobland

About a dozen middle school girls spent the day with real scientists at Syracuse University as part of the 2015 MOST Young Women Scientist Camp. Faculty from the College of Engineering and Computer Science partnered with faculty from the College…

Campus & Community

Career Services to Recruit Student Ambassadors

Monday, July 20, 2015, By News Staff

Career Services is launching the application for the third cohort of Student Ambassadors for the 2015-2016 academic year. Students can apply through this OrangeLink survey through July 31. Career Services Student Ambassadors volunteer to help connect Career Services with Syracuse…

STEM

Fridley Co-Authors International Biodiversity Research Paper

Monday, July 20, 2015, By Amy Manley

Humans depend upon high levels of ecosystem biodiversity. But due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is greater now than at any other time in human history. Jason Fridley, associate professor of biology in the College…

Media, Law & Policy

Summer Law Program Focuses on Business and Technology Development

Friday, July 17, 2015, By Jessica Chesher

Microfluidic bubble bioreactor for cell capture is not a description one would expect to hear for a project being researched in a law school, but that’s exactly what Heather Roark Parker L’16 was explaining to Assemblyman William Magnarelli during a…

Philosophers Celebrate 10th Anniversary of SPAWN Series July 29-31

Friday, July 17, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences is marking the 10th anniversary of its acclaimed SPAWN summer workshop series by revisiting the theme of its first conference: “Consciousness.” SPAWN, which stands for “Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop…