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Carnegie Library Reading Room to Reopen in January
The renovated Carnegie Library Reading Room and adjacent University Libraries’ service point on the second floor will reopen on Monday, Jan. 13. The main entrance to the Carnegie Library will be through the front stairs and doors, which will reopen…
Student Surveys Move to Digital Age
Somewhere in between the beginning of December and taking her final exam and leaving for home, Tamara Rasamny ’16 will complete one more task. “I do feel it’s important to do,” says Rasamny, an international relations major in Syracuse University’s…
Looking for Participants/Syracuse Lead Study Expands Recruiting
The Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition at Falk College is expanding recruitment for the Syracuse Lead Study. Additional zip codes are 13203 and 13208, in addition to the existing areas of 13204, 13205 and 13207. The study…
DPS Releases Android Mobile App
Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety will release its new Android phone and tablet app on Monday, Dec. 2. The app was developed in a partnership between the department and the School of Information Studies. DPS approached the project in…
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Course Affirms SU’s Status as Forensics Leader
A course in bloodstain pattern analysis, offered by The College of Arts and Sciences, has been recently approved by the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA). SU is one of only two institutions in the country—the other is Baylor…
Three SU Staff Members Named to 40 Under FORTY
Three members of the Syracuse University community were named among Syracuse’s 40 under FORTY for 2013. The annual award, presented this year at a Nov. 20 luncheon at the Oncenter in downtown Syracuse, recognizes 40 ambitious, civic-minded individuals under the…
SU Professor Organizes ‘Visual Literacy’ Institute to Strengthen Immigrant Voice
Using art to develop language and literacy was the theme of a recent two-day institute at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Among the organizers was Amanda Brown, assistant professor of linguistics in The College of Arts and Sciences….
What Are You Thankful For?
With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, we asked students and their parents what they’re most thankful for, and what they’re bringing home for break. The answer would make the Maytag repairman proud. What am I thankful for from Syracuse University…
Modern Mythology: Fifty Years Later, JFK Still Resonates
It was sunny that day in June of 1957 when John F. Kennedy came to Syracuse University. He was the junior senator from Massachusetts, but he was already eying the presidency, and already testing the rhetoric—a call to public service, an appeal to young people—that would later mark his administration.
Climate Change Garden Mixes the Future with the Present
Scientists expect Central New York’s climate to more closely resemble that of South Carolina by the end of this century, and ecologists have long warned that our local forests of sugar maple and basswood may gradually change to the drier oak-hickory forests of the U.S. South and Midwest.