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Students’ Project Reduces Energy Consumption, Pollution on Campus
By investigating uncomfortable temperatures in Maxwell Hall, four students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have helped reduce the building’s overall energy usage, pollution and cost of heating. Their efforts have provided Maxwell’s occupants with a cozier environment…
Celebrate and Welcome Spring
The University Wellness Initiative is sponsoring a free Spring Wellness Series for faculty and staff. Join Nicole Christina, author of BreatheSavorTaste.com and co-leader of SU’s Mindful Eating Series, in discovering how practicing gratitude and eating mindfully can impact your wellness…
TRAC Shines Light on Worst FOIL Offenders
Help the FOIA Project identify the worst violations of the Freedom of Information Act by casting your vote for a case of withholding worthy of this dishonor. In honor of Sunshine Week, the FOIA Project invited six prominent experts—Charlie Savage…
Professor Explores ‘Judicial Politics in Polarized Times’
Do judges serve as neutral legal umpires, unaccountable partisan activists or political actors whose decisions conform to—rather than challenge—the democratic will? That is one of the many questions that political scientist Thomas Keck seeks to answer in his latest book,…
Project ENABLE’s New Site Extends Information to More Librarians
Public and academic librarians across the United States now have a comprehensive, easily accessible, hands-on informational resource to help them increase their competence and confidence to provide high-quality services to people with disabilities. Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access By Libraries Everywhere)…
Hall of Languages to Glow Red for American Heart Association
The Hall of Languages will be aglow in red lights on the evenings of Thursday, Feb. 5, and Friday, Feb. 6, as part of the campus’s Orange Goes Red for the American Heart Association (AHA) campaign. Friday marks the 11th…
Campus Commuter Challenge Kicks Off
Syracuse University students, faculty and staff who walk, bike, carpool or ride the bus to campus between Feb. 1 and March 6 can compete for prizes in Syracuse University’s Spring 2015 Campus Commuter Challenge via Zimride Syracuse, our car and…
Q & A: Christopher Faricy on the State of the Union Address
From the economy to the war on terror, President Obama touched on a wide range of issues during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Christoper Faricy, assistant professor of political science in the Maxwell School and author of…
University Receives $3.2M to Develop Localized Heating and Cooling Systems
The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Delivering Efficient Local Thermal Amenities (DELTA) program will develop localized heating and cooling systems and devices to expand temperature ranges within buildings. The program plans to provide $30 million to support 11…
Illumination Initiative Lights Up Iconic Downtown Buildings
Syracuse is renowned for winter, but this season the city is shining a little brighter, thanks to an illumination initiative by the Connective Corridor focused on lighting iconic buildings and public spaces along the recently completed streetscape.