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R. David Lankes, professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) has been selected to receive the 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.  This honor is given annually…

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud addressed the University Senate in a nearly full Maxwell Auditorium on Wednesday, Jan. 20. In his nearly 25-minute remarks, the Chancellor provided a comprehensive update on a number of items, including matters relative to student life, academic affairs, executive searches and Fast Forward Syracuse. Chancellor Syverud has been regularly delivering remarks at Senate meetings to provide an update on key University initiatives. This was his first to the University’s governing body since the start of 2016.

To demonstrate potential costly effects of not taking time off from work as well as the beneficial effects that can result from vacationing, a professor in the Falk College is leading a new research study to examine how past and…

The University seeks to ensure that all people, regardless of individual ability or disability, can effectively access University communications and technology. Information Technology Services (ITS) has announced its new Walk-in IT Accessibility Help Desk hours. New this semester, the IT…

The selection committee has chosen three finalists to advance to the final round of the competition.

Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed Interim Dean of Hendricks Chapel Samuel Clemence and Vice President and Chief of Staff Candace Campbell Jackson to chair a committee charged with conducting a comprehensive review of Hendricks Chapel and identifying the best candidate…

Registration is underway for Tennity’s Winter Skating School. The session will be six weeks long (Jan. 30-Mar. 5) and is only open to Syracuse University faculty, staff, students, alumni and their dependents. Classes take place on Saturday mornings from 10…

Eyeglasses become an extension of a person and reflect the wearer’s personality. Viewed over time, they blend in. What if someone’s wheelchair or accessible device was thought of in the same way?

A few decades ago—when darkrooms and Kodachrome were staples of professional photography—a “hotshot” photographer spoke at the Rochester Institute of Technology about his extremely successful career. In the audience sat an eager young college student who worked up enough courage…

While attending college in her home country of Romania, Ioana Turcan G’17 befriended a family of cemetery caretakers. A close-knit group, they welcome her for weekend visits and holidays. They are also Roma. Turcan spent a year documenting them for her film.