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Campus & Community

South Side Communication Center Youth Program Encourages Anything Is Possible

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Every day the young people who attend the South Side Communication Center Youth Program have something different to look forward to. That includes speakers, art class, board games, sewing or just hanging out and engaging in good conversation. During the…

Arts & Culture

Book Memorializes Symposium in Tribute to Late, Great African Writer Chinua Achebe

Monday, August 7, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

In 2014, the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences held a daylong conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s landmark novel “Arrow of God.” The symposium featured some of the…

Health & Society

A Decade of PRIDE

Friday, July 28, 2017, By Amy Manley

Celebrating its 10th year, the highly competitive Program PRIDE (Psychology Research Initiative for Diversity Enhancement) program brings together Syracuse University undergraduates from underrepresented groups and invites them to develop an original independent psychology summer research project over the course of…

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.

Health & Society

Q&A: Margaret Voss on Coffee-Longevity Link

Friday, July 14, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

Margaret Voss is a professor of practice in Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition. She teaches courses in nutritional biochemistry, metabolism and nutrigenomics. She shared her thoughts about recently released research that seems to indicate that…

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

Story on Mental Health Lands Honors for Newhouse Student Taylor Epps ’19

Tuesday, July 11, 2017, By Keith Kobland

It’s no secret that Newhouse School graduates land jobs in some of the nations top broadcast markets. Sometimes however, their skills allow them to compete with top broadcasters before they leave Syracuse University. This is the case with Taylor Epps…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Poster Project Presents ‘Splash Poetry’

Thursday, July 6, 2017, By News Staff

The Syracuse Poster Project, a nonprofit civic arts organization, wants to brighten up your cloudy days. For the past 16 years, the Poster Project has partnered with local poets and Syracuse University illustration students to create an annual series of…

Media, Law & Policy

Broadcast, Print Journalism Students Finalists in the NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards

Thursday, July 6, 2017, By News Staff

The National Association of Black Journalists has released its list of finalists for its 2017 Salute to Excellence Awards, with three Newhouse students and student-produced NCC News making the cut. Brianna Moné Williams, G’17, magazine, newspaper and online journalism Category: Newspaper…

STEM

Invent@SU Students Design, Prototype, Pitch New Products in Invention Accelerator Competition

Wednesday, July 5, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

For Niall Shannon ’20 and Mina Diamantis ’19, Invent@SU was hands-on engineering at its best. They saw a problem in how many traditional wheelchairs can tip over and believed they could come up with a solution. “This is what I always…