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From Chef Adam Harvey: A Delicious Dinner to Warm Your Winter Weekend

Friday, February 22, 2019, By News Staff

“Several times a day, food offers a chance at short term happiness.” – Unknown We asked Food Services Sous Chef Adam Harvey to suggest a hearty, warm, tummy-filling dish anyone could prepare and everyone could enjoy over a chilly winter…

Campus & Community

Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Seeks Faculty Feedback

Thursday, February 21, 2019, By Brandon Dyer

The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) is seeking feedback from faculty to determine how the center can best support the University’s academic community. Recently, the Center emailed an online survey to all faculty email addresses to solicit input…

Media, Law & Policy

Hou Paper on China’s Property Tax Plan Earns Prestigious Pu Shan Award

Thursday, February 21, 2019, By Jessica Smith

The Maxwell School’s Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, has won a prestigious economic policy research award from the Pu Shan Foundation of China. The paper, “Real…

STEM

University College Responds to High Demand for Cybersecurity Specialists

Thursday, February 21, 2019, By Eileen Jevis

To meet the high demand for cybersecurity specialists in the field, University College has launched a bachelor of professional studies (BPS) degree in cybersecurity administration. The degree is fully online and can be completed from anywhere in the world. Cybersecurity…

Media Tip Sheets

‘Space Force’ To Create Countless Bureaucratic Fist Fights

Wednesday, February 20, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

This week President Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4 that orders the Pentagon to begin the process of establishing a “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the armed forces. Sean O’Keefe is a University Professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School…

Campus & Community

Marlene Celi and Isabel Jimenez: Where the Application Process Begins

Tuesday, February 19, 2019, By Brandon Dyer

In an average year, the Enrollment Management Processing office receives about 37,000 undergraduate applications. Graduate applications number around 13,000-15,000. Over a million supporting documents must be processed as well. Each application needs to be assembled and sent to the offices…

STEM

College of Engineering and Computer Science Launches Inclusive Excellence Dialogue Circles

Tuesday, February 19, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

Over the next two years more than 500 faculty, staff and students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science will take part in Inclusive Excellence Dialogue Circles that address the challenging issues of race, ethnicity and gender head-on through…

Campus & Community

Showing Support for Take Back the Night 2019

Tuesday, February 19, 2019, By Teagan Cyan Peacock

This year’s Take Back the Night, an annual march, rally and speak-out event, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Take Back the Night is observed throughout the world as an event that unites communities…

Campus & Community

Facilitators Sought to Engage New Students in Discussions around Shared Reading Selection ‘Lab Girl’

Monday, February 18, 2019, By Kathleen Haley

“Lab Girl,” an award-winning autobiography by pioneering scientist Hope Jahren, has been selected for the Fall 2019 semester shared reading experience for new students as part of the improved first-year SEM 100 seminar and the First-Year Experience Initiative. “Lab Girl”…

Campus & Community

Nonprofit Inkululeko Connects Syracuse University Community and South Africa; Staff Member to Speak on Campus Feb. 28

Monday, February 18, 2019, By Joyce LaLonde

Walking into Luzuko Methodist Preschool, a preschool outside of then-Grahamstown, now called Makhanda, South Africa, in summer 2014, Nicole Osborne ’14 was welcomed into a classroom of 2- and 3-year-olds. Where language differences left communication gaps, song and dance filled…