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Alumni Engagement, Increased Donor Support Propel Syracuse Past FY17 Fundraising Goals

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, By News Staff

The gifts raised this year include $125.7 million in gifts, pledges and gifts-in-kind, highlighted by the University’s spring and fiscal year-end campaign, known as Make Your Mark, which resulted in new and increased giving from more than 2,500 alumni donors.

Arts & Culture

Alumnus’ Documentary Exploring History of Lynching Screening Today

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, By News Staff

On Sept. 12, Syracuse University will screen “An Outrage,” a documentary film exploring the history and legacy of lynching and co-directed by Lance Warren ’04. The film will be shown at 5 p.m. in 220 Eggers. Warren, a graduate of…

Campus & Community

Q&A with CBT Chancellor’s Medal Winner Michael Blackshear

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, By Carol Boll

Michael Blackshear, who will receive a Chancellor’s Citation at this week’s Coming Back Together reunion, serves as the North America chief compliance officer for Chubb Insurance Co., the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. Blackshear periodically lectures…

Campus & Community

Webinar on Resiliency Offered for Faculty and Staff

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, By News Staff

We all experience personal stress as well as variable levels of stress at work. In order to be our best self on the job, it is important to recognize the role of resiliency in the workplace. This webinar, Influencing Resiliency…

The Washington Post

LGBT Groups Come Together To Oppose Transgender Military Ban

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

While the LGBT community has made huge strides in recent years, for a time, two large factions in the coalition were rifting with one another- severely hampering progress of the group along the way. However, one event in the recent…

STEM

Curious Properties

Monday, September 11, 2017, By News Staff

Editor’s Note: The following piece was prepared for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The article highlights three members of Syracuse’s Department of Physics: Mark Bowick, the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics, as well…

Arts & Culture

‘The Three Musketeers’ Brings Fun For All to Syracuse Stage

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Joanna Penalva

Artistic director Bob Hupp makes his directorial debut as Syracuse Stage opens the 17/18 season with the swashbuckling adventure “The Three Musketeers”. This action-packed adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 classic novel opens Friday, Sept. 22, in the Archbold Theatre at…

Business & Economy

Idea Jam with David Edelstein, Vice Chair of the SU Board, on Sept. 14

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Looking for a good idea?  Want to brainstorm and get your creative juices flowing? Come to the Idea Jam on Thursday, Sept. 14, from 4-5 p.m. at Bird Library with David Edelstein ’78, vice chair of the Syracuse University Board of…

Campus & Community

Options for Faculty, Staff Vaccination Coverage Expanded; Campus Flu Vaccine Clinic Dates Announced

Monday, September 11, 2017, By News Staff

Annual vaccination is an important step people can take to protect themselves and others from the flu. The Office of Human Resources has announced that University health plan participants may now get flu shots and other covered vaccines at more than…

Campus & Community

Homecoming Court Applications Due Sept. 17

Monday, September 11, 2017, By Joyce LaLonde

Applications for the 2017 Homecoming Court are due Sunday, Sept. 17, by 11:59 p.m. The applications are open to undergraduate students graduating this academic year who are on campus this fall. The Homecoming Court is a longstanding tradition at Syracuse University…