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2022-23 Syracuse Symposium Addresses Timely Topics With Diverse Slate of Programming

Wednesday, January 25, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Reparations for slavery. Environmental justice. Reproductive justice. Students, faculty, staff and the general public are invited to engage with these urgent topics and more throughout the spring semester thanks to the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s Syracuse Symposium. The lineup of…

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Faculty Can Apply for Undergraduate Research Assistantship Funding Through Feb. 16

Wednesday, January 25, 2023, By Diane Stirling

A new cycle of grant funding is available for faculty who want to hire undergraduate students to participate in their research and creative projects as paid research assistants. Faculty applications for the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement…

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University Celebration Honors the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  

Tuesday, January 24, 2023, By News Staff

More than 2,000 members of the Syracuse University and greater Syracuse communities came together in the JMA Wireless Dome on Sunday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Syracuse University’s 38th Annual Rev….

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Syracuse University Libraries Expands Read and Publish Agreements in 2023

Monday, January 23, 2023, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries recently signed four new ‘read and publish’ open access agreements with Wiley, SPIE (optics and photonics), Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing and The Company of Biologists. These agreements will expand the reach of Syracuse University researchers’ scholarly…

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Syracuse Abroad Students Make Headlines in Spain

Monday, January 23, 2023, By Ashley Barletta

Syracuse University students currently studying in Madrid, Spain made their way onto the local news earlier this month. During their first week in Spain, while participating in the Syracuse Madrid Marine Ecology Signature Seminar, students partook in a unique activity…

Salon

Prof. Ortiz Offers Expertise On The Recent Change In Television’s Representation Of Childbirth

Monday, January 23, 2023, By Julia Mazzer

Rebecca Ortiz, associate professor of advertising in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Salon article “How TV has embraced the traumatic side of the “dangerous miracle” of childbirth.” The article describes the transition of how giving birth is represented…

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‘Ultra’ Strength: ITS Online Learning Services Helps Ease Transition to New Blackboard Version

Thursday, January 19, 2023, By Eric Ferguson

Beginning with the Fall 2024 term, all University Blackboard courses will be offered in Ultra Course View, an entirely redesigned approach to Blackboard courses both for instructors and for students. Ultra Course View includes a clean, modern look and a…

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2023 ‘Understanding Islam’ Series Being Held in Bird Library

Thursday, January 19, 2023, By Cristina Hatem

Muslim Student Life, Hendricks Chapel and the Muslim Students Association are hosting a six-week lecture and discussion series titled “Understanding Islam” beginning  Tuesday, Jan. 31, through Tuesday, March 7, from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. in Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly…

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Lifetime Achievement Honor for Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment

Thursday, January 19, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment in the Maxwell School, has received the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Lifetime Achievement Honor. Monmonier has made “outstanding contributions to geographic research, most notably in the fields of cartography…

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University Preparing to Celebrate Chinese Culture During Lunar New Year

Wednesday, January 18, 2023, By John Boccacino

The Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, is a time of hope, representing an opportunity for Asian people everywhere to gather with family and friends to usher out the old year while welcoming in a new year teeming with…