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Inauguration Day Press Kit: Biography of Chancellor Kent Syverud
Kent Syverud is Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. Appointed by the University’s Board of Trustees in September 2013, he assumed the leadership post in January 2014, becoming the 12th leader of the University since its founding in 1870. Chancellor…
Haynie Named Chairman of Labor Department Advisory Committee
Mike Haynie, the executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has been named by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to serve as the chairman of the department’s Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Employment, Training, and Employer…
Falk Students, Faculty Advocate for Women’s Right to Adequate Nutrition at UN Meetings
Students in the Falk College’s new graduate course, FST 700, “Gender, Food and Rights,” attended the United Nations’ annual Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings during spring break. Led by food studies Professor Anne Bellows, three students—Melanie Shaffer-Cutillo,…
Fourth Annual Syracuse University Day Returns to Yankee Stadium June 21
Tickets are on sale for the fourth annual Syracuse University Day, which returns to Yankee Stadium this year. On Saturday, June 21, the Syracuse University Alumni Association, in conjunction with Joseph I. Lubin House, heads back to the Bronx for…
Deep Findings
When Cathryn Newton helped discover the USS Monitor in 1973, she was dealing with not just the most famous shipwreck of the Civil War (and of all U.S. naval history), but a paleontological and archaeological find of “epoch” proportions. “Shipwrecks…
Fast Forward Winners Give Voice to Inspired Ideas
They have an idea to make it better and the passion to make it work. Thirteen entrants—both individuals and teams—have been selected as winners in the Fast Forward competition, in which the University will fund student projects that demonstrate how…
Traditions Commission Collecting Memories for Time Capsule
The Syracuse University Traditions Commission is collecting items from students to be stored away in a time capsule in honor of the University’s 144th birthday. The capsule will be kept in the University Archives until Syracuse’s 200th birthday, 56 years…
A Time to Celebrate
It’s a day of enduring traditions and youthful exuberance—celebration and community. And it’s only happened less than a dozen times before in Syracuse University’s 144-year history. The University will inaugurate its next leader on Friday, April 11, as Kent Syverud is officially installed as SU’s 12th Chancellor and President.
Chemists’ Work with Small Peptide Chains May Revolutionize Study of Enzymes
Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides that are only seven amino acids long. Their breakthrough, which is the subject of a recent article in Nature Chemistry magazine (Macmillan…
Shark Tank Comes to Syracuse
It takes an entrepreneurial ecosystem to help turn an idea into a venture. And plenty of students are taking on the challenge of executing on their ideas. Students need to connect with entrepreneurs, and students and the Central New York…