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Health & Society

Join in the Fun of Walktober, Kickoff Event Monday

Wednesday, September 13, 2017, By News Staff

Walktober is a free, monthlong initiative and competition sponsored by Health Monday Syracuse and the University Wellness Initiative that encourages students, faculty, staff and family members of SU employees to step outside and take a walk. The event welcomes walkers, joggers, rollers, cyclist and all in between to track…

STEM

Curious Properties

Monday, September 11, 2017, By News Staff

Editor’s Note: The following piece was prepared for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The article highlights three members of Syracuse’s Department of Physics: Mark Bowick, the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics, as well…

Arts & Culture

‘The Three Musketeers’ Brings Fun For All to Syracuse Stage

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Joanna Penalva

Artistic director Bob Hupp makes his directorial debut as Syracuse Stage opens the 17/18 season with the swashbuckling adventure “The Three Musketeers”. This action-packed adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 classic novel opens Friday, Sept. 22, in the Archbold Theatre at…

Campus & Community

Wheatly, Sala Convene First Campus Facilities Advisory Board Meeting of 2017-18 Academic Year

Monday, September 11, 2017, By News Staff

Michele G. Wheatly, vice chancellor and provost, and Pete Sala, vice president and chief facilities officer, convened the first Campus Facilities Advisory Board (CFAB) meeting of the 2017-18 academic year. Wheatly and Sala, the CFAB co-chairs, and Cathryn Newton, special…

Campus & Community

Campus Feedback Sought on Proposed Middle States Recommendations

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University faculty, staff and students have just a few weeks to review and comment on draft recommendations proposed as part of the University’s reaccreditation self-study report for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The deadline for open feedback…

Media, Law & Policy

Acclaimed Journalist Soledad O’Brien Headlines Coming Back Together, University Lectures series

Friday, September 8, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Tickets for Soledad O’Brien (available at boxoffice.syr.edu) are free for CBT registrants, $5 for SU/SUNY-ESF students with I.D. and $10 for the public. When Soledad O’Brien was working on the acclaimed CNN series “Black in America,” someone asked her what she had…

Health & Society

Arlene Kanter Continues ‘Revolutionary’ Research on Services for Students with Disabilities in Israel

Friday, September 8, 2017, By Martin Walls

Continuing her engagement with disability rights scholarship and advocacy around the world during her sabbatical year away from the College of Law, Professor Arlene Kanter visited Israel in August 2017 to work on a research project to support students with…

Campus & Community

Sexual and Relationship Violence Task Force Provides Update to Campus Community on Key Progress, Achievements

Friday, September 8, 2017, By Carol Boll

The Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence concluded its second year of work at Syracuse University. The 30-member task force, appointed by Chancellor Syverud in spring of 2015, focused throughout the 2016-17 academic year on key recommendations that…

The Washington Post

Hurricanes, and Politicians, Pay No Mind to Flood Plains

Thursday, September 7, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Hurricanes pay no attention to flood plains as they whip from state to state. And, as Maxwell School’s Sarah Pralle investigated for the Washington Post, neither, it seems, does politicians. “And here’s the big lesson from Hurricane Harvey: The U.S….

Campus & Community

Outdoor Adventure Trips: Whitewater Rafting Available Throughout September

Thursday, September 7, 2017, By Rachel Friedman

The Department of Recreation Services is offering a series of whitewater rafting trips throughout September to the Black River in Watertown. Trips are available: Saturday, Sept. 9; Saturday, Sept. 16; Sunday, Sept. 17; and Saturday, Sept. 23; from 10:30 a.m….