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Arts & Culture

VPA’s Don Carr Receives Core77 Design Awards Honor for SyracuseCoE Project

Wednesday, June 27, 2018, By Erica Blust

Don Carr, professor of design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, received a runner-up honor in the Design Concept category in the 2018 Core77 Design Awards program for the project Amber Waves, an energy harvesting…

Campus & Community

Division of Marketing and Communications Concludes Internal Restructuring

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, By News Staff

As part of its reorganization, Syracuse University’s Division of Marketing and Communications recently restructured its staffing model, creating new positions and eliminating some roles. The restructuring follows extensive consultation with the division’s team members, deans, faculty, staff and alumni to…

Campus & Community

Bookstore Closed for Year-End Inventory

Monday, June 25, 2018, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Bookstore will be closed Monday-Wednesday, June 25-27, for inventory and system upgrades. It will reopen Thursday, June 28, at 8:30 a.m. I.D. orders for fiscal year 2018 business must be processed by the Bookstore no later than…

Campus & Community

Invest Syracuse Update: Counseling Center Announces Two New Staff Therapists

Monday, June 25, 2018, By Shannon Andre

As announced in January, as part of the Invest Syracuse initiative and plans to expand mental health services, the Counseling Center is pleased to welcome Karin DeLeon and Danielle Jones G’16 as new staff therapists. In these roles, DeLeon and…

Campus & Community

Director Named to Head University’s New Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Thursday, June 21, 2018, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University’s Office of Academic Affairs has hired a director for the University’s new Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Martha A. Kalnin Diede, who comes to Syracuse from Western Carolina University, has been appointed to the new post effective…

STEM

Syracuse Awarded $1 Million Grant to Support Diversity, Inclusion in STEM

Wednesday, June 20, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University is a 2018 recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence grant, supporting diversity and inclusion in science education. The five-year, $1 million grant will fund the University’s Collaborative High-Impact Activities in Natural Science Education (CHANcE)…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Announces New Director of Community Engagement and Education

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Joanna Penalva

Joann Maria Yarrow has been appointed to the newly created position of director of community engagement and education at Syracuse Stage. Yarrow is scheduled to begin shortly before the start of the 2018/2019 season. With more than 30 years’ experience…

Arts & Culture

Museum Studies Graduate Student Selected for Baseball Hall of Fame Summer Internship

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Erica Blust

Lily Brandt G’19, a graduate museum studies student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, is one of 19 college students interning at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, this summer as part…

STEM

Graduate Students Travel to Rwanda for Environmental Research

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

From June 1-16, 11 graduate students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Arts and Sciences, who are part of the EMPOWER graduate training program at Syracuse University, joined 12 students from the University of…

Media, Law & Policy

All Five First Ladies Condemn Family Separation At Border, But What Will That Do?

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

First Lady Melania Trump and the four First Ladies before her have all come out condemning the family-separation immigration policy. In addition to issuing statements, the First Ladies have relied on traditional and social media to share their perspectives –…