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Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week is Feb. 25-March 1
The University’s upcoming Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week features an afternoon reception with coffee, dessert and relaxing chair massages from licensed massage therapists; several professional development opportunities; and discount tickets to root for the Orange and help set a new…
Facilitators Sought to Engage New Students in Discussions around Shared Reading Selection ‘Lab Girl’
“Lab Girl,” an award-winning autobiography by pioneering scientist Hope Jahren, has been selected for the Fall 2019 semester shared reading experience for new students as part of the improved first-year SEM 100 seminar and the First-Year Experience Initiative. “Lab Girl”…
English Language Institute Helps Prepare Military for Mission in East Africa
Syracuse University’s English Language Institute (ELI) met with five soldiers from the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion in Syracuse to help them prepare for a yearlong civil affairs mission in East Africa. Civil affairs officers use their expertise, language competency, political-military…
Nonprofit Inkululeko Connects Syracuse University Community and South Africa; Staff Member to Speak on Campus Feb. 28
Walking into Luzuko Methodist Preschool, a preschool outside of then-Grahamstown, now called Makhanda, South Africa, in summer 2014, Nicole Osborne ’14 was welcomed into a classroom of 2- and 3-year-olds. Where language differences left communication gaps, song and dance filled…
University Hosts Workshop on Bias Awareness Feb. 26 for Staff
The Office of the Interim Chief Diversity Officer and the Office of Human Resources are hosting a workshop led by Al Vivian, president and CEO of Basic Diversity, to deepen campus discussions on bias awareness on Tuesday, Feb. 26. The…
Syracuse Symposium to Recognize Careers of Professors Wadley, Gold Feb. 26
Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong foray into “Stories” with a panel discussion on South Asian ethnography on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Recognizing the careers of Professors Susan S. Wadley and Ann Grodzins Gold, the event includes guest panelists Kirin Narayan (Australian…
Learn from ‘Living Books’ During Living Library Event April 2
The Syracuse University Libraries will host a Living Library event on Tuesday, April 2, from noon to 5 p.m. in Bird Library. Participants will have the opportunity to talk to “living books”—volunteers from the University community who represent a variety…
Writer Larry Blumenfeld Using Watson Professorship to Explore ‘Jazz in Troubled Times’ March 25-April 5
Larry Blumenfeld, cultural journalist, music critic and longtime contributor to The Wall Street Journal, will serve as the 2019 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University, March 25-April 5. Blumenfeld’s residency, titled “Jazz in Troubled…
Sociology Professor Quoted in Story about U.S. Life Expectancy
Jennifer Karas Montez, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Public Policy, was quoted in the Buzzfeed News story, “US Life Expectancy Has Dropped — Again.” “New York now has a life expectancy like Denmark, while Mississippi has one…
Bookstore Brings Hugs from Home to Students for Valentine’s Day
On Valentine’s Day morning, the receiving area of the Syracuse University Bookstore in the lower level of the Schine Student Center was bustling. Fruit baskets lined one shelf. Other shelves held large bags called the Valentine’s Snack Attack—filled with cookies,…