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SUArt Galleries Presents ‘Meant to Be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints’

Monday, August 14, 2017, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Meant to be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints at Yale University Art Gallery,” on view beginning Aug. 17. Organized by Suzanne Boorsch, the Robert L. Solley Curator of…

Campus & Community

Remembering Josephine ‘Josie’ Torrillo: Tremendous Grace

Friday, August 11, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

For many years, Josephine “Josie” Torrillo worked quietly and gracefully behind the scenes of Syracuse University’s major events and celebrations. At the University’s annual Commencements, she handled such dignitaries as former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Joseph Biden L’68…

STEM

ECS SummerStart Students Build Solar Ovens Using Recycled Materials

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

The challenge is both simple and complicated. Build an oven capable of baking a chocolate chip cookie—but it has to be solar powered and use everyday recycled items like cardboard boxes, plastic wrap and newspaper. For incoming engineering and computer…

Arts & Culture

Book Memorializes Symposium in Tribute to Late, Great African Writer Chinua Achebe

Monday, August 7, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

In 2014, the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences held a daylong conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel “Arrow of God.” The symposium featured some of the…

Campus & Community

Students Awarded Top Prizes for Honors Capstone Projects

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

For students in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, the honors capstone project can be a challenge to complete. The project typically requires intensive research, writing, professional or creative work over the course of already busy junior and senior years….

STEM

High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn’t just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school—she was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll’s environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in…

STEM

Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Rob Enslin

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”

Arts & Culture

Small Press Reading at Bird Library on July 31

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries and Colgate University Libraries have teamed up to present this summer’s installment of the Small Press Reading Series, featuring Elizeya Quate and John Colasacco. The event will take place on Monday, July 31, from 5-6 p.m. in…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University to Invest $100 Million in Academic Programs, Student Experience

Wednesday, July 26, 2017, By News Staff

Invest Syracuse follows the University’s comprehensive academic strategic planning process, during which students, faculty, staff and alumni helped define a shared vision for the University and identify clear priorities to achieve those aspirations.

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University Announces $40 Million Financial Aid Fundraising Initiative

Wednesday, July 26, 2017, By News Staff

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:…