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Campus & Community

Annual Black History Month Celebration Begins

Tuesday, February 3, 2015, By Shannon Andre

In honor of Black History Month, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, within the Division of Student Affairs, is hosting a series of events in February.

Health & Society

Clothing Drive Fills Unmet Need in Local Transgender Community

Tuesday, February 3, 2015, By Michele Barrett

Table after table lined with hundreds of donated shirts, pants, sweaters, skirts, jackets and other clothing items were visible in one Peck Hall classroom because marriage and family therapy (MFT) graduate students Amy Goss and Megan O’Brien recognized an unmet…

Campus & Community

NYSHealth Healthy Neighborhood Funds Near Westside Initiative

Monday, February 2, 2015, By News Staff

The Near Westside of Syracuse is one of six communities selected to participate in the New York State Health Foundation’s (NYSHealth) Healthy Neighborhood Funds initiative (http://nyshealthfoundation.org/our-grantees/healthy-neighborhoods-fund-recipients).  The initiative will provide funding and support for an active collaboration between NYSHealth and…

STEM

Geologist Awarded Prestigious CAREER Grant

Monday, February 2, 2015, By Rob Enslin

A sedimentary and organic geochemist, Christopher Junium will use the five-year award, valued at more than $524,000, to study how marine communities respond to global warming, anoxia (i.e., lack of oxygen) and ocean acidification.

Health & Society

CFS Doctoral Student, Professor Get Grant to Study Racial-Ethnic Socialization in Children

Friday, January 30, 2015, By Michele Barrett

Child and family studies doctoral student Kimberly Davidson and Jaipaul Roopnarine, the Jack Reilly Endowed Professor of Child and Family Studies and director of the Reilly Institute for Early Childhood and Provider Education, have received a $25,000 grant from the…

Media, Law & Policy

Raising the Bar: College of Law Revises Standards to Improve Student Success

Thursday, January 29, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

A rigorous two-day test of legal knowledge, the bar exam is the final hurdle for those studying law to be admitted as practicing attorneys. To ensure that new graduates taking the bar exam had academic assistance, the College of Law initiated a revised set of academic standards several years ago.

Creative Director David Hoffman ’95 to Deliver Soyars Lecture Feb. 3

Thursday, January 29, 2015, By Erica Blust

David Hoffman, creative director at Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., one of America’s oldest independent publishing companies, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium (Room 007), located on the concourse level of…

Arts & Culture

Recognitions Roll in for LLL Faculty

Thursday, January 29, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Success comes in droves for members of the College of Arts and Sciences. An unprecedented six professors in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) have been elected to top positions at three of the world’s leading language organizations….

Arts & Culture

‘Quaking Aspen’ to Open at Light Work

Wednesday, January 28, 2015, By Jessica Posner

Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

STEM

Grad Student Places Fifth in IBM ‘Master the Mainframe’ Contest

Wednesday, January 28, 2015, By Diane Stirling

A part-time graduate student in the School of Information Studies who admittedly has “no formal computer science background” has placed in the top five finishers in IBM’s coding and technology skills “Master the Mainframe” competition. Steven Hoover, an information management…