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Campus & Community

Syracuse University, SEIU Confirm New Five-Year Agreement

Tuesday, July 2, 2019, By News Staff

Syracuse University staff members represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 200United voted on Friday, June 28, to ratify a five-year contract for over 800 University employees, who are food service workers, library technicians, skilled tradespeople, custodial and…

Business & Economy

Whitman School’s Matt Shumer Selected for Blackstone LaunchPad Techstars Summer 2019 Lift Program

Monday, July 1, 2019, By Cristina Hatem

Matt Shumer ’22, founder of OptechVR/Visos, is part of an elite cohort of seven university teams from the United States selected for the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars LaunchPad Summer 2019 Lift program. The LaunchPad Lift accelerator program, which kicks…

Arts & Culture

Point of Contact Gallery Announces Opening of ‘Time Changes Everything’

Monday, July 1, 2019, By News Staff

Point of Contact Gallery is hosting an opening reception for “Time Changes Everything,” an exhibition by Syracuse University Professor Margie Hughto, Darcy Gerbarg, Beth Bischoff and Franco Andres, on Friday, July 12. The reception will take place from 5:30-8:30 p.m….

STEM

Portable Splint Device, Tremor Assist Cup Take Top Prizes at 2019 Invent@SU Session in NYC

Thursday, June 27, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

They saw a problem and wanted to do something about it. Maxwell Boise ’21 and Emmett Burns ’21 had an idea for an easy to carry, portable splint device—and the six week Invent@SU program in New York City gave them…

Truthout.org

Law Professor Writes Op-Ed about Trump Investigation

Thursday, June 27, 2019, By Sean Dorcellus

David Driesen, University Professor at the College of Law, wrote the Truthout op-ed “Trump’s persecution of his investigators follows authoritarian playbook.” In the article, Driesen states claims that “Trump is using the law as a weapon to defeat opponents, while…

STEM

Renewed Search Underway for iSchool Dean, Dean Gene Anderson to Chair Search Committee

Thursday, June 27, 2019, By News Staff

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele G. Wheatly today announced the membership of a renewed search committee tasked with finding the next dean of the School of Information Studies (iSchool). In May, Wheatly announced the appointment of David Seaman, dean of…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Shares Its Pride at CNY Pride

Thursday, June 27, 2019, By Joyce LaLonde

On Saturday, June 22, CNY Pride hosted its annual CNY Pride Festival and Parade in the Syracuse Inner Harbor. As part of the parade, khristian kemp-delisser ’01, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center on campus, helped…

Campus & Community

Newly Created Manager of Bias Response and Education Furthers Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Tuesday, June 25, 2019, By Teagan Cyan Peacock

The Dean of Students Office in the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience has welcomed Deka Dancil ’14 as the manager of bias response and education, a new position created with support from the Invest Syracuse initiative to advance…

Veterans

IVMF Staff Member Named to National Leadership Training Program

Monday, June 24, 2019, By News Staff

Misty Stutsman, director of entrepreneurship and small business programs in the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has been selected to participate in the George W. Bush Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program. The first-of-its-kind initiative is aimed at individuals serving…

Media, Law & Policy

Free Speech Expert on Contemporary Standards of Offensive Language

Monday, June 24, 2019, By Ellen Mbuqe

Free speech expert Roy Gutterman, Director of the Tully Center for Free Speech and professor of newspaper and digital journalism at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, is available to discuss to recent decisions on Iancu v. Brunetti and FMI v. Argus Leader handed down by the…