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IVMF Awarded Nearly a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Help Advance Government Support of Veterans and Families
In separate grants, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) and IBM Center for the Business of Government awarded the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) research and evaluation division over $235,000 to study strategies and approaches to reinvent traditional federal…
Message from Chancellor Kent Syverud
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Today, the federal government announced that the Department of Defense will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military. This decision is inconsistent with Syracuse University’s values of access, and of…
University Announces $40 Million Financial Aid Fundraising Initiative
Today, Syracuse University launched an ambitious fundraising effort focused specifically on raising $40 million for scholarships and other forms of financial aid in the next two and a half years. The “Invest Syracuse” fundraising effort is part of Invest Syracuse:…
Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code
According to the National Center for Women in Technology’s 2016 analysis, only 26 percent of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…
Alumnus Posthumously Named to National Mining Hall of Fame
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum (NMHFM) in Leadville, Colorado, will posthumously honor an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences. Vincent E. McKelvey ’39, a noted research geologist who directed the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 1971-77, is part of…
University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to Syracuse University to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…
Senate Healthcare: The Stakes are High
Grant Reeher, professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and director of the Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University and host of the Campbell Conversations on WRVO, says the stakes are even higher for the Senate to…
Students (and Tulips) Blossom with Bloomberg
Throughout Commencement Weekend, students, parents, families and friends posed with blooming tulips along the pathways leading to the Hall of Languages. What they may not have known was the beautiful backdrop was the result of a philanthropic and recruitment effort…
Friday Night Flicks Bonus Movie: ‘Men in Black’
Friday Night Flicks will offer a bonus movie on Saturday, July 15: “Men in Black.” The film will be shown at 9 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. Starting at 8:30 p.m., the first 200 moviegoers will receive a free gift, popcorn a…
Syracuse University Continues Commitment to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ‘Enough is Enough’ Legislation
More than two years ago, Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud became the first private university president in New York State to endorse Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Enough is Enough” legislation to prevent, combat and address sexual and relationship violence on college…