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Campus & Community

Four Accomplished Alumni to Receive Arents Awards During Orange Central

Tuesday, July 25, 2017, By John Boccacino

The Arents Award, Syracuse University’s highest alumni honor, honors the legacy of George Arents, a successful manufacturer who served on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees from 1930 until his death in 1960.

Business & Economy

Life of Brian

Monday, July 24, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Brian Benedik’s infatuation with radio began on Aug. 2, 1983, when the now-legendary Z100 first roared out of the swamps of Secaucus, New Jersey. “I was in the car with my mother, and was fascinated by what I heard on…

STEM

Syracuse Revels in Mega-Science Experiment to Study Neutrinos

Monday, July 24, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Associate Professor Mitchell Soderberg and Assistant Professor Denver Whittington are part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Arts & Culture

New ELI Director Announced

Tuesday, July 18, 2017, By Eileen Jevis

David Lind has been appointed the new director of the English Language Institute at University College. Lind has a B.A. in history from Cornell University and an M.Ed in applied linguistics from Open University. For the past two years, Lind…

STEM

Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code

Tuesday, July 18, 2017, By Sophie Estep

According to the National Center for Women in Technology’s 2016 analysis, only 26 percent of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…

Campus & Community

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk and Be Entered for a Chance to Win a Garmin Fitness Tracker

Tuesday, July 18, 2017, By News Staff

Ready to walk the walk with a walking meeting? If so, you have the chance to win a Garmin Fitness Tracker. The more walking meetings you participate in, the greater your chance of winning. Getting out of the office and…

James Fathers

Professor, Industrial and Interaction Design; Collaborative Design and Director of School of Design
STEM

University Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM

Thursday, July 13, 2017, By Carol Boll

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to Syracuse University to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…

Media, Law & Policy

Trump Blocking Users on Twitter is a Violation of the First Amendment

Wednesday, July 12, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Roy Gutterman, free speech expert and associate professor at Newhouse School for Public Communications, is available for comment about the news that Twitter users are suing President Donald Trump and White House officials Sean Spicer and Daniel Scavino for blocking…

Campus & Community

Adrian Prieto Named Director of Development for University’s Office of Program Development

Tuesday, July 11, 2017, By Carol Boll

The Office of Program Development has announced the appointment of Adrian Prieto as its director of development. The appointment, which took effect Monday, June 26, establishes a dedicated gift officer within the office to cultivate and increase giving among the University’s…