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Campus & Community

Director Named to Head University’s New Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Thursday, June 21, 2018, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University’s Office of Academic Affairs has hired a director for the University’s new Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Martha A. Kalnin Diede, who comes to Syracuse from Western Carolina University, has been appointed to the new post effective…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Announces New Director of Community Engagement and Education

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Joanna Penalva

Joann Maria Yarrow has been appointed to the newly created position of director of community engagement and education at Syracuse Stage. Yarrow is scheduled to begin shortly before the start of the 2018/2019 season. With more than 30 years’ experience…

Arts & Culture

Museum Studies Graduate Student Selected for Baseball Hall of Fame Summer Internship

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Erica Blust

Lily Brandt G’19, a graduate museum studies student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, is one of 19 college students interning at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, this summer as part…

Veterans

Syracuse University Employee Selected for Bush Institute’s Inaugural Class of Stand-To Veteran Leadership Initiative

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

The George W. Bush Institute has announced the first class selected to participate in the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Initiative, a first-of-its-kind program aimed at individuals serving our nation’s veterans who are motivated to broaden their skillsets, knowledge and influence across…

Metropolis Magazine

Activist Architects Plan to Reform

Friday, June 15, 2018, By Essence Britt

When thinking of architects, the automatic thought goes to designers – those who design buildings, facilities, houses, parks, etc. Do you ever think that architects are also activists in the process of reforming how architecture is taught? This is true….

PolitiFact

Did Tariffs Affect the Great Depression?

Friday, June 15, 2018, By Essence Britt

Sen. Ben Sasse explains in PolitiFact how the current trade war is “dumb” and “a road we’ve already been down.” Now, the question is, is this true? According to the article it is, but the question is still up for debate….

Campus & Community

SyracuseCoE Hosts Electric Car Ride and Drive Event

Thursday, June 14, 2018, By News Staff

SyracuseCoE is hosting NYSERDA’s free electric car ride and drive event on Thursday, June 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Participants can check out and test drive a variety of electric vehicles and learn about savings and incentives available….

Campus & Community

LGBT Resource Center Names Assistant Director and Program Coordinator

Thursday, June 14, 2018, By Shannon Andre

The LGBT Resource Center will welcome Jorge Castillo and Qiao-An (Jo/Joanne) Wang as the new assistant director and program coordinator, respectively. Following a national search, Castillo comes to the LGBT Resource Center from West Virginia University (WVU), where he served…

Media, Law & Policy

INSCT Hosts State Board of Elections Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise

Friday, June 8, 2018, By Martin Walls

On June 7 the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) hosted one of a series of statewide exercises that focus on cybersecurity preparedness and response to threats to New York State election systems. These first-of-their-kind tabletop exercises are sponsored…

STEM

Stripling Elected to Board of Freedom to Read Foundation

Tuesday, May 29, 2018, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor of Practice and Senior Associate Dean Barbara Stripling has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF). She will begin her term in June after the organization’s…