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Arts & Culture

SU Drama Stages Haunting Greek Tragedy ‘Agamemnon’

Thursday, October 29, 2015, By News Staff

Fire in the night signals the return of Agamemnon from 10 long years of war in Troy. Triumphant and with a captive slave, the prophetess Cassandra, in tow, the warrior king arrives home and is welcomed by Clytemnestra, wife and…

Arts & Culture

MLA Past President to Discuss Humanities Advocacy Nov. 6

Thursday, October 29, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with a lecture on the role of advocacy in humanities education. Margaret Ferguson, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), and past president…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Launches Three-Pronged Post-Professional Degree Program

Monday, October 26, 2015, By Elaine Wackerow

Beginning in fall 2016, students enrolled in the post-graduate master of science in architecture program will participate in a new, three-pronged “Design | Energy | Futures” research and design concentration. The three-semester, 30-credit-hour program will focus on energy and the…

Health & Society

School Food Policy and Its Impact on Childhood Obesity

Friday, October 23, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Professor Amy Schwartz has for many years studied the school lives of New York City children, looking at educational inequalities and school finance. Much of the work focused on looking at test score results but more recently Schwartz wanted to look at a broader picture of student success.

Campus & Community

Message to Our Community

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: It is with immense sadness that I write to notify you of the death of two Syracuse University students, Chengye Hou and Yifan Tao. Chengye and Yifan, both originally from China, were graduate students in…

Health & Society

Syracuse University and Nanjing University Form Green Buildings Partnership

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Kerrie Marshall

With joint interests in sustainability of the built environment, Syracuse University and Nanjing University (NJU) of the People’s Republic of China signed a cooperative agreement on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to establish the International Center for Green Buildings and the Urban…

Veterans

VeteransU App Helps Vets Adjust to Life at SU

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Charles Preuss had spent the previous seven years of his life with his head on a swivel. As an airborne paratrooper for the U.S. Army, his life depended on an astute understanding of his surroundings and the people in them….

Arts & Culture

Architecture Dean Michael A. Speaks Named as Juror for Taiwanese Design Competition

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Elaine Wackerow

Michael A. Speaks, dean at Syracuse University School of Architecture, is among a distinguished group of 11 jurors who will select the winner of a competition to design a new terminal at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport. The competition is hosted…

STEM

In Defense of Online Medical Records

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Sharing sensitive information online has become commonplace. Having easy access to important info, such as financial information, provides people with unprecedented convenience. Unfortunately, it also introduces the risk of private data falling into the wrong hands. Credit cards and account…

Media, Law & Policy

Clinton Foundation President, Former Cabinet Member Donna Shalala to Speak

Monday, October 19, 2015, By Scott Barrett

Donna E. Shalala G’70, H’87, president and CEO of the Clinton Foundation and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will deliver the next Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…