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Campus & Community

Syracuse University Students Lobby in Albany for Continued HEOP Funding

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, By Eileen Jevis

The Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) offers economically and educationally disadvantaged individuals a chance to transform their lives through education. The program provides access to a Syracuse University degree for students from New York State. University College…

Campus & Community

Recent Coronavirus Events Prompt Additional Action, Coordination and Planning

Monday, March 2, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: The first case of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in New York state and the second death in the United States caused by the virus were confirmed yesterday. These developments, combined with news over the weekend of…

Campus & Community

2020 Orange Circle Award Winners Announced

Saturday, February 29, 2020, By John Boccacino

Transforming people’s lives through access to affordable housing, improving literacy in some of Syracuse’s most impoverished communities, using the art of step to give back, increasing public health awareness at an area high school, and providing essential medical supplies to…

Campus & Community

University Travel to Italy Temporarily Restricted

Saturday, February 29, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: With the continued spread of the novel coronavirus across the globe, health authorities are urging both vigilance and an aggressive response to containing the outbreak and preventing “sustained spread” of the virus. Syracuse University, much like…

Business & Economy

Shumer Wins Campuswide InVenture Prize

Thursday, February 27, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Matthew Shumer ’22, founder of Visos, the first virtual reality (VR) headset specifically designed for health care applications, has won Syracuse University’s InVenture Prize campus qualifier competition, sponsored by the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries. He received…

Campus & Community

Coronavirus Preparedness, Coordination and Planning Continues

Thursday, February 27, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: As I shared yesterday, Syracuse University has been working closely with health authorities—including the Onondaga County Health Department, New York State officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—to prepare for…

Campus & Community

Statement from Sarah Scalese, SAVP for Communications, Regarding Recent Events

Wednesday, February 26, 2020, By News Staff

To be clear: A meeting for 4 p.m. today was never agreed to, scheduled or confirmed. We do, however, hope to continue dialogue with our students, which is why we participated in a two-and-a-half-hour meeting last night with the student…

Campus & Community

Important Coronavirus Update, Academic Program in Florence to Be Suspended

Wednesday, February 26, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: Syracuse University continues to track the global threat of the novel coronavirus, now known as COVID-19, and remains in close contact with local, regional and national public health experts. We have communicated frequently…

STEM

Syracuse University and UC Berkeley Researchers Team Up to Develop 3D Human Heart Model Showing How Cardiac Cells Fail to Adapt to a Pathological Mechanical Environment

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

To better understand heart diseases, doctors and scientists are constantly trying to understand how cardiac tissue in the human heart is affected by its changing environment. Specifically, researchers have wanted to better understand how cardiac cells adjust themselves depending on…

STEM

M. Lisa Manning Named William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics

Tuesday, February 25, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

M. Lisa Manning, professor of physics and founding director of BioInspired Syracuse: Institute for Material and Living Systems, has been named the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics. This highly selective professorship was established in 1971 by a grant from…