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MLK Celebration Committee Seeks Unsung Hero Nominations, Performance Auditions

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By Keith Kobland

The planning committee for Syracuse University’s 36th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is seeking nominations for the Unsung Hero Awards, as well as recorded audition videos for performances. The celebration will take place in January 2021; further…

Media, Law & Policy

Peace Corps, Fulbright Evacuees Find Community, Opportunity at Maxwell School

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By News Staff

On a Monday morning in mid-March, Jeremy Gonzalez opened his email and learned he was being immediately evacuated from his Peace Corps post in West Timor, Indonesia. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had already prompted travel restrictions around the world, his…

Campus & Community

New Special Collections Research Center Exhibit: ‘Provisions for Your Research Journey’

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) announces a new exhibition located in the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The exhibition, “Survival Kit: Provisions for Your Research Journey,” is on display now through…

Campus & Community

Life Takes Aisha Huntley on a Winding, Rewarding Educational Journey

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Eileen Jevis

For many adults, it takes courage to walk through a door that can change the trajectory of their life. Oftentimes, that first step is taken with a mixture of hope and trepidation. Aisha Huntley ’05, G ’11 never imagined that…

Media, Law & Policy

New Threats, Familiar Challenges: Maxwell School Responds to COVID-19

Monday, November 2, 2020, By News Staff

How are scholars and practitioners across policy areas—economics, public health, education, social welfare—responding to the myriad impacts of the novel coronavirus? That’s what Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs Colleen Heflin wanted to know, and who better to ask…

STEM

Syracuse Biologists Publish Research on the Persistence of Mutualisms in ‘Science’

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

The sign of a healthy personal relationship is one that is equally mutual—where you get out just as much as you put in. Nature has its own version of a healthy relationship. Known as mutualisms, they are interactions between species…

Vice

“The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet’s Racist Engine.”

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Lily Datz

Whitney Phillips, assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was quoted in the Vice story “The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet’s Racist Engine.” 4chan is an online message board…

Afton Kapuscinski

Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Services Center
Campus & Community

Public Health Advisory: New COVID-19 Clusters

Thursday, October 29, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: In the past 24 hours, we have confirmed 21 new cases of COVID-19 among Syracuse University students. The majority of these new cases appear to be linked to two unrelated off-campus gatherings held this…

Campus & Community

Election Day Is Tuesday; Here Are Polling Locations for Student Voters

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, By News Staff

Polls on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Students and faculty/staff residents who registered to vote locally in Onondaga County should have received postcards from the Board of Elections indicating their polling location….