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Campus & Community

University Prepares to Welcome Newest Students

Wednesday, August 17, 2016, By Shannon Andre

Each year, the Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs, in collaboration with a number of University departments, hosts Syracuse Welcome, the University’s new student orientation program for incoming, full-time, undergraduate students. Preparations to welcome the more than 4,000 first-year and…

Media, Law & Policy

Burdick Leads Study on Social Housing Projects in Brazil

Tuesday, August 16, 2016, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom have awarded $597,000 to a project led by Professor John Burdick (anthropology) to observe differently organized social housing projects in downtown Rio de Janeiro, to…

Campus & Community

Alumni Welcomed Back to ‘Your Happy Place’ for Orange Central

Monday, August 15, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Alumni from around the world will be welcomed back to campus for Orange Central homecoming weekend Sept. 15-18. This year, the theme for Orange Central is “Welcome Back to Your Happy Place.” Orange Central is a once-a-year celebration for the…

Campus & Community

Summer Snaps 2016

Monday, August 15, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

What are you doing on your summer vacation? See how members of the University community are having fun as the summer kicks into gear.

Health & Society

Ditre, Maisto Receive Grant to Study Links Between Chronic Pain, Alcohol Consumption

Friday, August 12, 2016, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The impact of heavy alcohol consumption upon individuals and society is well known. The effects of chronic pain upon those who live with it has also been well studied. Now, with a five-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes…

Chlorine gas attacks in Aleppo are “crimes against humanity” says former war crimes prosecutor

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

David Crane, Professor of Practice at Syracuse University College of Law, founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and co-founder of the Syrian Accountability Project said the recent chlorine gas attacks on civilians amounts to “war crimes.”…

Campus & Community

McNair Scholars Present Research at Two-Day Symposium

Thursday, August 11, 2016, By Sean Kirst

Roshad Meeks is a self-described “military brat.” His father served in the U.S. Army, and Meeks spent much of his childhood in Germany. He was 11 or 12 when his family returned to Columbus, a little Mississippi city of about…

Campus & Community

Temporary Road Closure

Wednesday, August 10, 2016, By Keith Kobland

(The following email was sent to members of the Syracuse University community) Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: The Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction continues its efforts to improve and upgrade the University’s infrastructure, particularly its utilities. This week,…

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Sayler/Morris Receive Brower Center Art/Act Award, NYFA Fellowship

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, By Erica Blust

Artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris), faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia and co-directors of the Canary Lab, a hub for research-based, interdisciplinary art and media focused on ecology, have received…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Alumna Star Zhou Leads Coke’s Olympics Ad Campaign in China

Monday, August 8, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Just six years after graduating from the Newhouse School’s undergraduate program in advertising, Yishu “Star” Zhou ’10 is leading Coca-Cola’s Olympics advertising campaign in her native China. The campaign, which launched in May, was featured in AdvertisingAge and was chosen…