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Veterans

Haynie Named Chairman of Labor Department Advisory Committee

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, the executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has been named by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to serve as the chairman of the department’s Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Employment, Training, and Employer…

Health & Society

Falk Students, Faculty Advocate for Women’s Right to Adequate Nutrition at UN Meetings

Thursday, April 10, 2014, By News Staff

Students in the Falk College’s new graduate course, FST 700, “Gender, Food and Rights,” attended the United Nations’ annual Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings during spring break. Led by food studies Professor Anne Bellows, three students—Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo,…

Campus & Community

Student Barter Day Along Connective Corridor

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

If you need it, someone has it. If you have it, someone needs it. This is the inspiration behind the first Student Barter Day on the Connective Corridor, which will take place Saturday, April 5, from 3:30-6:30 p.m. The day…

Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…

Campus & Community

Statement from Chancellor Syverud

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud released the following statement this morning: “The Syracuse University community is saddened to learn that our alumnus, Major Patrick Miller, was injured in yesterday’s shooting at the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas. Our thoughts…

Campus & Community

‘When Your Heart Speaks’: Film Screening and Performance

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

“When your heart speaks,” the first episode in a three-part documentary series, will be screened in Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m. The documentary series, created by Lauren Teng, a senior television, radio and film major in…

Campus & Community

Funk for a Cause to Benefit Karen Refugees Locally and Abroad

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Students Darcy Cherlin and Alison Joy will hold a benefit concert and comedy improv show on Saturday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at Funk n’ Waffles, 727 S. Crouse Ave. Admission is $5. Those attending are asked to bring donations…

Getting to Know: Assistant Professor Barbara Stripling, President of the ALA

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The idea that access to libraries–and to the information, materials and guidance available therein is a right community members should be guaranteed–is a platform that has taken Barbara Stripling to all corners of the United States and around the world….

IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…

Campus & Community

SU Launches Zimride Ridesharing Program

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University has launched Zimride, a new ridesharing program aimed at providing transportation options and benefits for students, faculty and staff. A goal of the program is also to help to reduce the University’s carbon footprint. The private service connects…