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Business & Economy

Removing GE, Adding Walgreens to Dow Seems ‘Only Sensible’

Thursday, June 21, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

General Electric (GE) is going to be replaced by drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance on the Dow Jones industrial average. The change will happen before the open on June 26. Tom Barkley is a professor of finance practice and director…

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…

STEM

Syracuse Awarded $1 Million Grant to Support Diversity, Inclusion in STEM

Wednesday, June 20, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University is a 2018 recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence grant, supporting diversity and inclusion in science education. The five-year, $1 million grant will fund the University’s Collaborative High-Impact Activities in Natural Science Education (CHANcE)…

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…

STEM

Graduate Students Travel to Rwanda for Environmental Research

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

From June 1-16, 11 graduate students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Arts and Sciences, who are part of the EMPOWER graduate training program at Syracuse University, joined 12 students from the University of…

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…

Media, Law & Policy

All Five First Ladies Condemn Family Separation At Border, But What Will That Do?

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

First Lady Melania Trump and the four First Ladies before her have all come out condemning the family-separation immigration policy. In addition to issuing statements, the First Ladies have relied on traditional and social media to share their perspectives –…

Media, Law & Policy

Creation of ‘Space Force’ Is a Solution In Search of a Problem

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of establishing a “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the armed forces. Sean O’Keefe is a University Professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public…

STEM

Aspiring Researcher in Ruhlandt’s Research Lab Attends International STEM Fair

Monday, June 18, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

A high school student working in the lab of College of Arts and Sciences Dean Karin Ruhlandt participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May. Marina Cousins, a senior at Manlius-Pebble Hill School, was…

The New York Daily News

‘Roseanne’ Cancellation Only Choice for ABC Following Racist Tweets

Friday, June 15, 2018, By Essence Britt

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor and director of the Bleier Center for Televsion and Popular Cultures in the school of Newhouse, had a few words to say regarding Roseanne Barr’s racial tweets that lead to the cancellation of her ABC show,…