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Campus & Community

Six-Week Series on Understanding Islam Begins Jan. 28

Tuesday, January 22, 2019, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Understanding Islam, a popular six-week series that presents a comprehensive look at Islam through lectures and discussions, will begin on Monday, Jan. 28. Each session will consist of a lecture and a discussion. The program is facilitated by Muslim Chaplain…

Campus & Community

Spring 2019 Interfaith Dinner Dialogue Series Begins Jan. 22 with Discussion on Trevor Noah’s ‘Born A Crime’

Friday, January 18, 2019, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

An in-depth discussion of Trevor Noah’s “Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” will kick off the University’s spring 2019 Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, “Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the ‘Hidden’ Things that Divide Us,”…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud to Chair NCAA Committee on Sports Wagering

Thursday, January 17, 2019, By News Staff

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud will chair the Association’s Ad Hoc Committee on Sports Wagering. A Supreme Court ruling last May repealed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). PASPA effectively…

Arts & Culture

SUArt Galleries Presents ‘A Stirring Song Sung Heroic’; Photography by William Earle Williams

Wednesday, January 16, 2019, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Art Galleries presents “A Stirring Song Sung Heroic, African Americans From Slavery To Freedom, 1619 To 1865,” now on view.  This critically acclaimed exhibition features over 80 contemporary photographic works by artist and curator William Earle Williams,…

Syracuse Doctoral Student Earns LIGO Inaugural Award in Detector Characterization

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By Carol Boll

Derek Davis had not been on the Syracuse University campus more than a week in 2015 before being swept up in the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that would thrill the astrophysics world and thrust the gravitational-wave research community onto…

Accessible Technology Webinar Series Begins Thursday

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By News Staff

The Southeast ADA Center, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, is co-hosting a free 2019 Accessible Technology Webinar Series. The kick-off webinar, “Accessibility and Inclusion in K-12 Computer Science (CS) Education: Meeting the Needs of Students…

STEM

U.S. News Ranks College of Engineering and Computer Science, iSchool No. 11 for Online Graduate Programs

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By J.D. Ross

Online graduate programs offered by Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) and School of Information Studies (iSchool) have been ranked No. 11 for best information technology programs for 2019 by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online…

STEM

Aerospace Engineering First-Year Students Test Their Mars Rover Designs

Friday, January 11, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

The “surface of Mars” may be just a table in Link Hall and its “rocks” may only be golf balls, but the tension and excitement are nearly as high as an actual space mission. For their ECS 101 class, first-year…

Business & Economy

Experience ‘Holidays at Hendricks’ Through Television and Radio Broadcasts

Monday, December 17, 2018, By Delaney Van Wey

The pews of Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel were filled with community members celebrating the sounds of the season during the “Holidays at Hendricks” concert on Sunday, Dec. 2. As the festive season continues, the annual Syracuse University holiday concert will…

Veterans

Student-Veteran Grads Return to Share Experiences and Recruit for Amazon and First Data

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, By News Staff

United States Marine Corps veteran Kevin Lee ’17 and United States Navy veteran Brittney Coleman G’18 returned to campus recently to share experiences, network with current students and recruit graduating seniors to Amazon and First Data where they are now…