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Campus & Community

October is Disability Awareness and Appreciation Month

Monday, October 1, 2018, By Shannon Andre

Throughout the month of October, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) and a host of campus partners and student organizations will host Disability Awareness and Appreciation Month. The month’s events will focus on disability and its many intersections. “We are very…

STEM

Maxwell’s QDR Receives NSF Grant to Facilitate Ethical Data Sharing

Monday, October 1, 2018, By News Staff

Colin Elman, professor of political science in the Maxwell School and co-director of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR), has received a $299,787 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the construction of socio-technical infrastructure to facilitate the safe…

Campus & Community

Challenges, Events Highlight Campus Sustainability Month

Monday, October 1, 2018, By News Staff

As the leaves begin to change from green to orange across campus, Sustainability Management invites members of the University community to become sustainability change agents by taking part in the international celebration of Campus Sustainability Month during October. Throughout the…

Campus & Community

Scholar Amber Johnson to Speak on ‘Becoming the Justice Fleet: the Great Shift from Diversity to Radical Inclusion’

Friday, September 28, 2018, By Hannah Hein

Amber Johnson, an award-winning assistant professor of communication and social justice at Saint Louis University and creator of the Justice Fleet, a mobile justice museum that interrogates radical forgiveness, will present “Becoming the Justice Fleet: The Great Shift from Diversity…

Campus & Community

Fall Update 9.28.18

Friday, September 28, 2018, By News Staff

Friday, September 28, 2018 Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: With the new academic year underway, we want to update you on the work that has continued through the summer and into the fall semester. Greek Life Review • The Greek…

Campus & Community

Five Visionary Alumni to Receive Arents Award at Orange Central

Friday, September 28, 2018, By John Boccacino

The George Arents Award is Syracuse University’s highest alumni honor A visionary leader in zoology. A decorated doctor and professor. An iconic supermodel. A lifelong public servant. An accomplished civil engineer. The 2018 class of Arents Award winners. The George…

STEM

iSchool to Lead Partnership Expanding Internet Connectivity in Liberia

Thursday, September 27, 2018, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool), Imcon International and the Republic of Liberia will collaborate on the 40 in 2021 Project, a far-reaching initiative that will digitally transform the country of Liberia by increasing the nation’s current Internet penetration of…

Media, Law & Policy

WAER Inducts Len Berman ’68, G’70 and Steve Kroft ’71 into Hall of Fame

Thursday, September 27, 2018, By Greta Bush

“I don’t think my life would have turned out the way it’s turned out if I hadn’t gone to Syracuse.” These were the words of Steve Kroft ’71 during the WAER Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on Friday, Sept. 14….

Campus & Community

Wooden Stick Festival Celebrates Lacrosse and Haudenosaunee Culture

Thursday, September 27, 2018, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival, Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30, celebrates the late Randy Hall, a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Wolf Clan, with a box lacrosse tournament in his memory. Hall, a lifelong fan of lacrosse, died…

Health & Society

Off-Broadway’s ‘Rap Guide to Consciousness’ Comes to Hendricks Chapel

Thursday, September 27, 2018, By News Staff

Fresh from a nearly six-month stint off-Broadway in New York City, Baba Brinkman’s “Rap Guide to Consciousness” will be performed Friday, Sept. 28, at 6:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Brinkman–an award-winning musician, scholar and theater performer–raps his way through some…