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Campus & Community

Become a Facilitator for Shared Reading Discussion Groups

Thursday, June 28, 2018, By Shannon Andre

As part of enhancements to the first-year experience, all new students arriving this fall will now engage in a shared experience that includes a shared reading of Trevor Noah’s memoir, “Born A Crime,” and discussion groups that will focus on…

Campus & Community

English Language Institute Seeking Volunteers to Host Students

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, By Eileen Jevis

The English Language Institute (ELI) is seeking volunteers to invite international students to share a meal in their homes at a convenient time between mid-July and the first week in August. The students, hosted by the English Language Institute in…

Campus & Community

Warm Weather Hours for Recreation Services Facilities

Monday, June 25, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

When high temperatures are forecasted this summer, Recreation Services will extend hours at the Ernie Davis Fitness Center and close the Women’s Building Gym B fitness center and weight room. During these hours adjustments, the air-conditioned gymnasium and pool remain…

Media, Law & Policy

Strasser Professorship Deepens Alumnus’s Philanthropic Legacy at Maxwell

Thursday, June 21, 2018, By Dana Cooke

A new, $3-million philanthropic commitment from alumnus Joseph Strasser ’53 B.A. (History)/’58 M.P.A. will create a permanently endowed and named professorship in public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, while also building on a legacy of…

Campus & Community

Director Named to Head University’s New Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Thursday, June 21, 2018, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University’s Office of Academic Affairs has hired a director for the University’s new Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Martha A. Kalnin Diede, who comes to Syracuse from Western Carolina University, has been appointed to the new post effective…

Media, Law & Policy

Presenting the 2018 Mirror Award Winners

Wednesday, June 20, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Winners in the 12th annual Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting were announced June 12 at a ceremony in New York City hosted by the Newhouse School. Kimberly Brooks, anchor and correspondent at Fusion TV, was master of ceremonies at…

Arts & Culture

Museum Studies Graduate Student Selected for Baseball Hall of Fame Summer Internship

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Erica Blust

Lily Brandt G’19, a graduate museum studies student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, is one of 19 college students interning at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, this summer as part…

Veterans

Syracuse University Employee Selected for Bush Institute’s Inaugural Class of Stand-To Veteran Leadership Initiative

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

The George W. Bush Institute has announced the first class selected to participate in the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Initiative, a first-of-its-kind program aimed at individuals serving our nation’s veterans who are motivated to broaden their skillsets, knowledge and influence across…

STEM

Biologists Awarded NIH Grant to Study Origins of Brain Disorders

Wednesday, June 13, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Neuroscientists in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are using a major grant to study the origins of brain disorders, including epilepsy and stroke. Sandra Hewett, the Beverly Petterson Bishop Professor of Neuroscience and…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Advertising Students Earn First Place in National Student Advertising Competition

Tuesday, June 12, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A team of 13 Newhouse School advertising students was the big winner at the 2018 National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC), beating out teams from more than 140 others colleges and universities from across the country. This is the second time…