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Amazon Sticks to Its Playbook in Latest Unionization Push in NYC

Monday, November 1, 2021, By Lily Datz

Organizers from Staten Island’s Amazon facilities have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union. They’ve collected roughly 2,000 signatures. It’s the latest in a series of similar moves by other Amazon warehouse workers to…

Veterans

ROTC Cadets Score Among Top-Ranked in the U.S. and Earn Prestigious Honors

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, By Brandon Dyer

One of the longest consecutive running programs of its kind in the country, Syracuse University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) trains students to commission as officers in the Army and Air Force. Over the course of their training, cadets are…

Campus & Community

Disability Justice Advocate Eli Clare Is CNY Humanities Corridor’s 2021 Distinguished Visiting Collaborator

Monday, October 25, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The Syracuse University Humanities Center, in partnership with the Cornell Society for the Humanities, welcomes author and social justice educator, Eli Clare, as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor. A leading thinker at the intersection of queerness, race and…

STEM

A&S Physicists Develop One of the First Models Capturing Dynamics of Confined Cell Movement

Wednesday, October 20, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The process of normal cell division in the human body is quite simple: start dividing in response to a signal, such as a wound, and stop when enough cells have been produced and the skin is healed. But cancerous cells…

Health & Society

Philanthropy That Recognizes the Value of Education and Educators

Tuesday, October 19, 2021, By Eileen Korey

Sharon Jacquet graduated from Syracuse University in 1972 with a degree in elementary education but decided against becoming a teacher. “I felt it was an awesome responsibility and I was too immature to be responsible for those young minds,” Jacquet…

Campus & Community

Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Offers Visual Thinking Strategies Workshops

Monday, October 18, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence is offering two virtual workshops for faculty and instructors on Visual Thinking Strategies, a simple way to engage students. This evidence-based method has been shown to increase critical thinking, observation, and evidentiary reasoning…

Campus & Community

LaunchPad Announces 2021 ’Cuse Tank Winners

Thursday, October 14, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) hosted its annual ’Cuse Tank entrepreneurial competition on Friday, Oct. 8, at Bird Library. Twenty-four student teams from various schools and colleges across campus competed in a “Shark Tank”-style business pitch in front of…

Health & Society

Falk College Event Features Sport Management Alumnae in NFL

Thursday, October 14, 2021, By Matt Michael

Cady Langdon ’16 and Angela Marsh-Coan ’18 were involved in sports in high school, wanted to pursue a career in sports and are now working in dream jobs for the most popular professional sports league in the world, the National…

Campus & Community

Remembrance Week Will Be Held Oct. 17-23

Thursday, October 14, 2021, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The 2021-22 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have planned events and activities—from exhibitions to screenings to a candlelight vigil—to honor the…

STEM

Syracuse University Receives $750,000 From U.S. Department of Energy to Accelerate Innovations for ‘Grid-Interactive’ and Energy-Efficient Buildings

Thursday, October 14, 2021, By Kerrie Marshall

Syracuse University has received a $750,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate development and commercialization of innovations for “grid-interactive” and energy-efficient buildings. The project is focused on strengthening the regional innovation cluster in Central New York,…