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Syracuse Hosting Hult Prize Regional Impact Competition
On Friday, April 9, Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars will virtually host approximately three dozen teams from 19 countries and all five continents for the prestigious Hult Prize Regional Impact Summit competition. This year’s Hult Prize 2021 Challenge…
Light Work Presents Meryl Meisler: ‘Best of Times, Worst of Times’
Light Work presents Meryl Meisler: “Best of Times, Worst of Times,” an exhibition of her photography of her life in and around New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. Meisler’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery…
Learning Communities Announce 2021-22 Options for Current Students
The Office of Learning Communities will offer seven housing options for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors for the 2021-22 academic year. Living learning communities (LLCs) provide a distinctive living experience that connects students with shared interests and/or academic pursuits. The…
University Honors Third Cohort of Success Scholars
More than 900 first-year and transfer students earned the Invest in Success Scholarship this year, an award recognizing first semester high-achieving students. Along with the merit-based, renewable scholarship award, the Success Scholars were honored at socially distanced receptions where they…
DEIA Strategic Planning Process Next Steps
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Thank you to all those who have engaged with the latest diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility campus initiatives, updates and developments. I write today to announce new opportunities for engaging with the planning process and…
Using Syracuse Lava to Understand Metal Worlds
In August 2022, NASA will embark on a space mission to 16 Psyche, a 140-mile diameter giant metal asteroid situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA says it will be the first mission to investigate a planetary…
Sophomore Ellen Jorgensen Named a 2021 NOAA-Hollings Scholar
In high school, Ellen Jorgensen was highly involved in the Green Club in her school and led initiatives that focused on waste reduction. She also developed education initiatives for her peers to give them a sense of responsibility regarding the…
‘Has Marijuana Changed or Have We?’
Dessa Bergen-Cico, professor of public health in the Falk College, authored an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “Has marijuana changed or have we?” Bergen-Cico is the coordinator of Falk’s addiction studies program and has expertise in addiction, drug use and mental…
Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students Invited to Learn More about First Year Seminar
The Office of Academic Affairs invites faculty, staff and graduate students to participate in information sessions regarding the First Year Seminar (FYS 101) course, to begin in fall 2021. Course leaders will share an overview of the course goals and…
Curating the Bigger Picture: Evan Starling-Davis Approaches Literacy from Multiple Entry Points
Evan Starling-Davis is a narrative artist, curator and producer. More precisely, he names himself a digital-age “griot”—a term used for traveling poets, musicians and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history derived from the African diaspora’s culture and history….