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Health & Society

New Book Co-Edited by Gorovitz, Newton Reveals Untold Stories of Three Medical Pioneers

Thursday, September 21, 2017, By Rob Enslin

When Sharon Brangman ’77 attended SUNY Upstate Medical University, she had a professor who puffed on a pipe in class. During tests, he would stand by her desk and blow smoke over her head to distract her. He did this to other…

Arts & Culture

New Ideas of Urban Design a Matter of Equality for Architecture Professor

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

In November, School of Architecture Professor Francisco Sanin and his 13 studio students will travel to Medellín, Colombia, to visit a city transformed. Once known as “the most dangerous city in the world” for its drug cartels and dangerous streets…

Business & Economy

$5,000 Impact Prize for Social Entrepreneurship Debuts this Fall

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A new Impact Prize initiative  is launching at the University. The program will support student entrepreneur teams that devise innovative and implementable solutions to economic or social problems, or civic challenges.  Coordinated by the Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University, the Impact…

Arts & Culture

Malmgren Concert Series Kicks Off Sept. 24 with Hausmann String Quartet

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Hausmann String Quartet will be the first guest for the 2017-18 season of Hendricks Chapel’s Malmgren Concert Series on Sunday, Sept. 24. The concert, “Reason Gone Mad,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open…

Campus & Community

Maxwell School Mourns Legendary Teacher, Scholar Ralph Ketcham

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, By News Staff

Ralph Ketcham, one of the longest-serving and most beloved and influential professors in the history of the Maxwell School, died on April 26 after a brief illness. He was 89. A Memorial Service will be held Monday, Sept. 25, at 3…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, By News Staff

Being held Sept. 28-30, the festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2017-18: Belonging and is presented by the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Media, Law & Policy

Shubha Ghosh, TCLC Help a Scientist Bring a Diagnostic Innovation to Market

Monday, September 18, 2017, By Martin Walls

In 2000, when she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel from Colombia to study genetic engineering at the University of Arkansas, Magnolia Ariza-Nieto says she thought she had won the lottery. But with that elation came a sense of…

Media, Law & Policy

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman to Keynote Tanner Day at Maxwell School

Friday, September 15, 2017, By News Staff

The Honorable Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA Administrator (2001 – 2003) and former New Jersey governor, will deliver the keynote address at Tanner Day at Maxwell, a series of lectures and panel discussions focused on the “Future of Citizenship and…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Approves Climate Assessment Recommendations, Authorizes Next Steps

Friday, September 15, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

Following a campuswide climate assessment process, Chancellor Kent Syverud has accepted all five recommendations presented by the University’s Climate Assessment Planning Committee (CAPC). The Chancellor has also asked the members of his Executive Team to move forward with implementation of…

Health & Society

The Road to Intellectual Freedom

Thursday, September 14, 2017, By Amy Manley

Renowned classical scholar and author, Michele Valerie Ronnick will present “14 Black Classicists: The Politics of American Learning” on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 5:30 p.m. in Bird Library’s Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114).  The lecture is part of the 2017…