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Business & Economy

Students Participate in Blackstone LaunchPad Techstars Startup Weekend in Los Angeles

Friday, May 3, 2019, By Cristina Hatem

Four Syracuse University students were selected to participate in the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars Startup Weekend in Los Angeles April 26-28. They were part of a cohort of 70 student attendees representing 20 universities from six states and two…

Veterans

Maureen Casey: Problem Solver Who Just Can’t Quit

Friday, May 3, 2019, By Eileen Korey

Maureen Casey’s office at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) is more than 150 miles from her childhood home on a dairy farm in Hudson Falls, New York. But the lessons she learned there, tending dairy cows and…

STEM

Varshney Graduate Scholarship Established in the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Thursday, May 2, 2019, By Matt Wheeler

For the first time this fall, the Pramod K. and Anju Varshney Endowed Graduate Scholarship will be awarded in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The scholarship will provide financial assistance to graduate students pursuing a doctoral degree in…

Campus & Community

Mountain Goat Run on May 5 Includes Some Roads Around Campus

Thursday, May 2, 2019, By Keith Kobland

The yearly Mountain Goat Run will make its way through Syracuse on Sunday, May 5. Some of the roads around campus and in the Syracuse University neighborhoods, including Comstock Avenue and Thorndon Park, may be affected. More than 3,000 athletes…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Names Advocacy Honors Society after Professor Emeritus Travis H.D. Lewin

Wednesday, May 1, 2019, By Robert Conrad

The College of Law has named its student-run advocacy competition organization the Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honors Society. In doing so, the college honors the faculty member who was instrumental in creating what was, in the early 1970s, a groundbreaking…

Veterans

Syracuse Veteran Advisor Program Celebrates First-Year Student Veterans

Tuesday, April 30, 2019, By Leah Lazarz

Syracuse University’s Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE) program recently brought student veterans, PAVE advisors, family members and campus staff together to support and celebrate first-year student veterans and the start of their Syracuse career. The “Celebration of First-Year Success,”…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Libraries, Department of Chemistry Collaborate to Identify Chemical Composition of Plastics Artifacts Collection

Tuesday, April 30, 2019, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collection Research Center (SCRC) and the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences have collaborated on a first-of-its-kind project. Courtney Asztalos, the Libraries’ plastics pioneers curator of plastics and historical artifacts, partnered with…

Media, Law & Policy

INSCT Welcomes Five National Security Experts as Distinguished Fellows

Monday, April 29, 2019, By Martin Walls

The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT)—a collaboration between the College of Law and the Maxwell School—has added five senior national security experts to its academic and advisory leadership team. These distinguished fellows—drawn from the upper echelons of the…

Campus & Community

Renée Crown University Honors Students to Present Thesis Projects on Wednesday

Monday, April 29, 2019, By News Staff

Seniors in the Renée Crown University Honors Program will present their thesis projects on Wednesday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Hall of Languages. The presentation panels will run concurrently in 11 rooms throughout the building,…

NPR

Tariffs on Aluminum and Steel Lead to Wins and…Failures

Sunday, April 28, 2019, By Essence Britt

Mary Lovely, professor of economics in the Maxwell School, was quoted in stories about tariffs and the trade war in several outlets including National Public Radio. In the Trade War between the U.S and China tariffs have been imposed on aluminum…