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Campus & Community

Send Silence Packing Offers Hope, Brings Awareness to Mental Health

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

The 1,100 backpacks distributed around the Quad were part of an exhibition to represent the number of college students nationwide who commit suicide every year.

Campus & Community

Cuse Conference Offers Opportunity for Dialogue on Campus Issues

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Members of the Syracuse University community gathered Sunday, April 19, for the Cuse Conference, a five-hour dialogue on major issues on campus. The conference was organized by the Student Association, the Graduate Student Organization, the SU Residence Hall Association and…

Campus & Community

Community Engagement Honored at Annual CAPES Award Ceremony

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and public scholarship at the 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship (CAPES). The awards will be given at a…

Arts & Culture

Setnor Concerto, Aria Competition Winners to Perform April 26

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By Erica Blust

The winners of the annual Concerto and Aria Competition in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will perform with the Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra (SUSO) and guest conductor Geneviève…

Connective Corridor Celebrates Earth Week with Beautification Day

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

The Connective Corridor is encouraging faculty, students and community members to join in this Saturday as part of the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency’s (OCRRA) Earth Day Cleanup to help beautify the Connective Corridor. Last year, 5,500 people volunteered for…

Campus & Community

Let There Be Lightboard!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By Christopher C. Finkle

Imagine a glass chalkboard pumped full of light. You face your online students and write on the board at the same time, in the same window, and what you write glows in front of you. Imagine no more! Lightboard is…

STEM

Astrophysicist and Research Fellow Jedidah Isler Featured in Ted Talk Lecture

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By Keith Kobland

She has a passion for the moons and stars, a passion she says began when she was 11 or 12 years old. Now, the rest of the world is getting the chance to see Jedidah Isler’s love for the heavens….

SBA Administrator Announces Funding to Support Expansion of Services to Vets

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Maria Contreras-Sweet, the 24th administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, held a press conference at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) on Tuesday, April 21, to announce that the…

STEM

Chemistry Major to Receive Slepecky Research Prize April 24

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Kewei Xu ’15, a chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize at the annual Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Hosts Annual Holtz Alumni Awards

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Kerri D. Howell

The Whitman School will honor Theodore Spall, Jr., ’69, with the Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the Year Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 29, at 3 p.m. in Whitman’s Lender Auditorium. The Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the…