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Avoiding Conflicts By Improving Cultural Understanding
When the Red Cross sent food to drought- and conflict-ravaged Somalia, military personnel distributed the supplies on a first-come, first-served basis. People who didn’t receive food responded by starting a riot. “The military didn’t understand that the local politics of…
Women’s & Gender Studies to Host Alumni Panel Discussion Oct. 20
Two alumni of the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) will return to campus to share their professional experiences. Brittany Brathwaite ’13, co-founder and chief innovation officer of the social start-up KIMBRITIVE, and Erin Carhart ’14, manager of youth…
Theoretical Physicist Elected American Physical Society Fellow
Professor of Physics Simon Catterall was recently elected as an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. The APS Division of Computational Physics nominated Catterall for his contributions to lattice field theory, a framework used to explore how subatomic particles interact, yielding…
Life Skills Taught at End of School Day
The South Side Communication Center is much more than a safe place for middle school and high school students to gather after the school day ends. The center, opened in January 2011 through a partnership with the Southside Community Coalition,…
Sixth Annual It Girls Retreat Brings 94 High Schoolers to Campus
Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly led an information technology pep rally recently at a dinner for 94 potential School of Information Studies (iSchool) students. “You’ve all made a really great choice to come to the It Girls retreat because…
Multidisciplinary Team Wins NSF Award to Study Distributed Energy Markets
As the traditional, centralized way of producing and distributing electricity gives way to a future of decentralized, “smart” energy production and consumption, policymakers, producers and regulators must understand the security and privacy risks inherent in “distributed” energy production and in…
Rachel Vassel Named New Assistant Vice President of Program Development
Chief Advancement Officer and Senior Vice President Matt Ter Molen announced today the appointment of Rachel Vassel ’91 as the new assistant vice president of program development in the Division of Advancement and External Affairs (AEA). Vassel begins in her…
Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian to Be Honored with Tully Free Speech Award
The Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School will honor Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days, with the 2016 Free Speech Award. The award is given annually to a journalist…
Chancellor Syverud Addresses October Meeting of University Senate
Syracuse University’s recent leadership transitions, the Campus Framework, diversity and inclusion, and the Climate Assessment Survey were among a handful of topics Chancellor Kent Syverud addressed during his University Senate appearance Wednesday afternoon in Maxwell Auditorium. Speaking in front of…
Doing Assessment as if Teaching and Learning Matter Most
The Office of the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Tom Angelo will be presenting Friday, Oct. 14: Doing Assessment as if Teaching and Learning Matter Most To some degree, assessment will always be a bureaucratic…