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Campus & Community

Geochemist Receives NSF Grant for Work in Developing Search Engines for Climate Change Data

Friday, November 4, 2022, By News Staff

No researcher is an island. While scientists and academics certainly find themselves toiling alone in laboratories and behind computers at times, it is collaboration—consulting, borrowing from and building upon the research of others—that really drives discovery. And in the field…

Campus & Community

Lender Center for Social Justice Granted $2.7M From MetLife Foundation for Research Initiatives to Help Address Racial Wealth Gap

Thursday, November 3, 2022, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University’s Lender Center for Social Justice has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from MetLife Foundation to launch several new research initiatives to accelerate efforts to address the racial wealth gap and help dismantle the root causes of wealth…

Campus & Community

University Celebrates First-Generation College Students on Nov. 8

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, By News Staff

The campus community is invited to participate in this year’s National First-Generation College Celebration on Nov. 8. This event is celebrated annually on Nov. 8 to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Student Combines Design, History Studies With Love of Illustration

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, By Julie Sharkey

From a young age, Thitaree (Jenny) Suwiwatchai ’23 (B.Arch)—a fifth-year student in the School of Architecture—has been interested in illustration. Since the day she could draw, she’s enjoyed putting her thoughts on paper and creating stories. Growing up in Thailand,…

After the opioid settlement, what to do with the money?

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

The two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, CVS Health and Walgreens, plan to pay $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the destructive impact opioids have had on communities. Additionally, the New York attorney general announced that the state will…

Health & Society

Lender Center Brings Labor Movement Leaders to Campus to Discuss the Fight for Workers’ Rights

Tuesday, November 1, 2022, By Jen Plummer

The revitalization of the American labor movement and the struggle for racial and economic justice were the central topics of a Lender Center Conversation held Monday, Oct. 24, in Dineen Hall. After introductory remarks from current and former leadership of…

Campus & Community

Falk Exercise Science Professor Joon Young Kim Receives President’s Volunteer Service Award  

Thursday, October 27, 2022, By Matt Michael

When Joon Young Kim joined the Department of Exercise Science at Falk College in the fall of 2020, his primary work outside of the classroom focused on patient-oriented clinical research of pediatric obesity and type 2 diabetes. But then the…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Discusses Micron Investment at University Senate

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, By News Staff

Greetings everyone. It has been a fast-paced and eventful fall semester already at Syracuse University. I would be remiss if I did not say that I am grateful that, starting in Fall ’23, we will have a fall break in…

Campus & Community

5 Questions With Officer Jessica Zaccari During Dating and Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, By Christine Grabowski

Officer Jessica Zaccari joined the Department of Public Safety (DPS) as a campus peace officer in 2018. Given Officer Zaccari’s background and with October being Dating and Domestic Violence Awareness Month we thought it would be a perfect time to sit…

STEM

Davidson Selected for Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Distinguished Lecturer Tour

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, By Alex Dunbar

Cliff Davidson, Thomas and Colleen Wilmot Professor of Engineering, environmental engineering program director and director of the Center for Sustainable Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was recently selected as the featured lecturer for the Association of…