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STEM

Simulated UN Negotiations Teach Role of Science in Policy-Making

Monday, February 2, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Since 2011, Professor Svetoslava Todorova of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering has served as a science observer for the UN-Mandated Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC) on Mercury. The group has been instrumental in the development of a global mercury…

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…

Arts & Culture

SUArt Galleries to Show ‘Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course From Realism To Abstraction’

Monday, February 2, 2015, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction,” a retrospective exhibition that features artwork by the award-winning American painter and printmaker. Organized by Jennifer L. Streb, curator at the Juniata College Museum…

Campus & Community

Liddy Selects Karin Ruhlandt Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Friday, January 30, 2015, By News Staff

Ruhlandt, who first joined the Syracuse faculty in 1993, has served as interim dean of the college since July 2014.

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.

Campus & Community

Campus Commuter Challenge Kicks Off

Wednesday, January 28, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse University students, faculty and staff who walk, bike, carpool or ride the bus to campus between Feb. 1 and March 6 can compete for prizes in Syracuse University’s Spring 2015 Campus Commuter Challenge via Zimride Syracuse, our car and…

Campus & Community

Free Tobacco Cessation Program

Tuesday, January 20, 2015, By News Staff

Free tobacco cessation program, still time to register! The University is offering a free, six-week tobacco cessation program on campus for faculty and staff. Begins, Tuesday, Jan. 27, and runs for six consecutive Tuesdays. Noon-1 p.m. in 233 Schine Student…

Campus & Community

Long Time SU Administrator Dies at 81

Tuesday, January 20, 2015, By Eileen Jevis

Lucius Robinson Kempton, 81, of Pompey passed away at Menorah Park on Sunday, Jan. 18. Following his graduation from Middlebury College in 1955, he began a lifelong career at Syracuse University. He was appointed to University College in 1956 as…

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Launches 2015 Spring Symposia

Friday, January 16, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center (HC), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced its 2015 Spring Symposia schedule. Events include the HC Faculty Fellow Symposia, the HC Dissertation Fellow Symposia, the HC Symposia, Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminars…

Campus & Community

Illumination Initiative Lights Up Iconic Downtown Buildings

Friday, January 16, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse is renowned for winter, but this season the city is shining a little brighter, thanks to an illumination initiative by the Connective Corridor focused on lighting iconic buildings and public spaces along the recently completed streetscape.