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Arts & Culture

VPA Communications Design Students Win Big in Creative Quarterly International Competition

Wednesday, January 9, 2019, By Erica Blust

Communications design (CMD) students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design won big in the international Creative Quarterly 54 competition. Five of the 12 winning entries in the graphic design student category were submitted by members…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Matriculates Inaugural JDinteractive Class

Tuesday, January 8, 2019, By Robert Conrad

The College of Law matriculated 32 students into the inaugural JDinteractive (JDi) class in a Jan. 7 ceremony in the Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom in Dineen Hall. JDinteractive is the nation’s first fully interactive online law degree. The ABA-accredited program…

Media Tip Sheets

What to Expect with President Trump’s Speech on the Government Shutdown

Tuesday, January 8, 2019, By Ellen Mbuqe

Kendall Phillips, professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, is available to discuss President Trump’s primetime speech on the partial government shutdown. Prof. Phillips taught a class about the rhetoric of President Trump and popular culture and offered four…

Veterans

University Honors Commitment to Veterans at Camping World Bowl

Friday, January 4, 2019, By Leah Lazarz

As part of the University’s enduring commitment to veterans and the military community, the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA) and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) partnered with athletic donors Ted Lachowicz ’72 and Cliff Ensley…

Arts & Culture

‘Yoga for Singers’ Workshops Explore Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

Wednesday, January 2, 2019, By Rob Enslin

Singers interested in using mind-body awareness to improve their vocal technique and overall performance are encouraged to register for a series of public workshops presented by CNY Singing Garden, a Syracuse-based private voice studio. Soprano Laura Enslin and tenor Daniel…

Campus & Community

Orange Volunteers Squeeze in Some Compassion During Orlando Visit

Thursday, December 27, 2018, By News Staff

Citrus fruit may grow on trees in Florida, but the Sunshine State recently experienced the influx of an especially spirited variety of Orange–from wintry Syracuse! As the Orange football team prepared for its debut in the 2018 Camping World Bowl…

STEM

Capstone Project Funds Local ‘Girls Who Code’ Chapter

Friday, December 21, 2018, By Diane Stirling

A capstone class project for a team of School of Information Studies (iSchool) students, working with an iSchool alumna at the Onondaga Free Library, has initiated a Girls Who Code chapter and an introduction to tech careers and coding skills for 11 Syracuse girls.

WalletHub

Psych Professor Provides Insight on Making New Year’s Resolutions

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

Brittany Jakubiak, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, provides some advice on the do’s and don’ts of New Year’s resolution-making with WalletHub. In the article “10 Financial Resolutions for 2019,” Jakubiak recommends…

STEM

Growing the Science of Sustainability: Molecular Biologist Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 Expounds on Importance of GMOs, Science Literacy

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 has built a career on defying the odds. From working her way through college as a single mother to being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons (bits of DNA that hop from place to…

Media Tip Sheets

When memes attack democracy

Tuesday, December 18, 2018, By Ellen Mbuqe

Social media expert and Syracuse University faculty member Jennifer Grygiel is available to discuss the latest findings in the newly-released Disinformation Report. Assistant Professor of Communications at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, Jennifer Grygiel says that this shows a memetic…