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“This Time It’s Different” – Panel Discussion on the Paris Climate Talks

Friday, October 23, 2015, By News Staff

A lot is riding on the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21). On Oct. 29, students will have a chance to ask questions of a panel of experts and learn about what can and might be…

Campus & Community

Message to Our Community

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: It is with immense sadness that I write to notify you of the death of two Syracuse University students, Chengye Hou and Yifan Tao. Chengye and Yifan, both originally from China, were graduate students in…

Health & Society

Syracuse University and Nanjing University Form Green Buildings Partnership

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Kerrie Marshall

With joint interests in sustainability of the built environment, Syracuse University and Nanjing University (NJU) of the People’s Republic of China signed a cooperative agreement on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to establish the International Center for Green Buildings and the Urban…

Scholars Announce Activities for 2015 Remembrance Week

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

The Psychological Impacts of Mass Shootings and Violence

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor Leonard Newman, area director of social psychology, offers expertise on the mass shooting and violence that has gripped the US during the past two decades. Q: Are we (US society) becoming psychologically desensitized…

Campus & Community

The Rosenquist Network: Collaboration and Connections in the American Print Workshop

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By News Staff

The Rosenquist Network: Collaboration and Connections in the American Print Workshop, Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Slocum Hall auditorium, will explore the role that the printmaking workshop has played in contemporary American art, and in particular in…

Health & Society

Guest Speaker to Discuss Black Westward Migration Nov. 4

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

The Department of African American Studies (AAS) in the College of Arts and Sciences will play host to an expert on black migration experiences. Marta Effinger-Crichlow, associate professor and chair of African American studies at CUNY’s New York City College…

Alumni Robert and Richard Menschel Awarded Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Robert B. Menschel ’51, H’91 and Richard L. Menschel ’55 were honored with the highly prestigious Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy for their decades of philanthropy during a ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 15, at the New York Public Library. Longtime supporters…

Media, Law & Policy

Scholar Spotlight: Justin Mattingly ’17

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Justin Mattingly is busy with dual majors in newspaper and online journalism (Newhouse) and political science (Maxwell) and minors in sport management (Falk College), history (Maxwell) and, soon, sport analytics (Falk). But that’s only part of the story. He also…

Campus & Community

University College to Bring Together Experts to Share Online Education Strategies

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Eileen Jevis

Ray Schroeder, associate vice chancellor for online learning and professor emeritus of communication at the University of Illinois at Springfield, will be part of a panel at the second annual meeting of the University Partners for Online Education Strategies (UP…