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Hendricks Chapel Dean Brian Konkol recently spoke with News Channel Nine regarded his new position and how religion can influence many across college campuses. He spoke of how he got to Syracuse University and that path that led him here….

When poet Stephen Kuusisto decided to train with a guide dog at age 39 he had no idea the decision would change every aspect of his life. “It was amazing to find out what a dog can do,” he says….

The mumps disease has been spreading throughout the Syracuse University campus this fall semester, enough so to prompt booster shots available for all students. Additionally, students themselves are doing their best to stop the disease, as CNY Central outlined this…

  What do you get when you put a bell pepper and a carrot together with corn niblets, green beans, blueberries and eggplant? A rainbow. This multi-colored food kaleidoscope supports a deliberate effort known as “eating the rainbow” to help…

The last straw for Bryan Costello came one bitterly cold winter morning. Having lost part of his right leg in a motorcycle accident in 2011, Costello was now employed plowing driveways instead of working as a pipefitter for a nuclear…

Understanding the nature of science is the greatest predictor of evolution acceptance in college students, a new study finds. With a minority of American adults fully accepting evolution, the fundamental principle of biological science, this research provides guidance for educators…

Using data has become a critical skill for journalists. But where do you get it? How do you use it and what kinds of stories can you do? Do you have to be able to write code? Or are there…

The students in the Orange Hacker’s Association are “white hat hackers”—hackers who test cybersecurity programs not to break them, but to help make them safer. “People think of it as a very bad thing, but actually a hacker is just someone who…

Country music is typically a genre that steers clear from getting involved with politics. However, after the shooting in Las Vegas, many wonder if that may change. For the Washington Post, Syracuse’s Bandier Program Director Bill Werde dives into the…

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong survey of “Belonging” with a quartet of multidisciplinary events. On Friday, Nov. 3, Tim Brookes, founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, will address “Where Have All the Alphabets Gone? Disappearing Traditional Writing Systems and the Worldwide Loss of…