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Campus & Community

Blackstone LaunchPad Announces 2025 Afropreneurship Business Competition Winners

Friday, February 21, 2025, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad awarded prizes to several student teams as part of its fourth annual Afropreneurship Celebration and Business Competition, held in Bird Library on Feb. 7. Among the winning team awards: $1,500 to Olutosin Alabi G’25 (Martin…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Libraries Hosting Idea Exchange

Friday, February 21, 2025, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries is hosting “The Ideas Exchange: Sparking Innovation at Syracuse University” on Tuesday, March 4, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. on the first floor of Bird Library. Students from across campus eager to explore the frontiers of innovation,…

Campus & Community

University Remembers the Legacy of Francis McMillan Parks

Thursday, February 20, 2025, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Francis McMillan Parks, former director of Students Offering Service and African American Programs in Hendricks Chapel and a beloved community storyteller, died on Jan. 12. She was 87. Parks grew up in Odessa, Texas. She earned a bachelor’s degree in…

Media Tip Sheets

Experts Available: NY Prison Strikes; National Guard Deployment

Wednesday, February 19, 2025, By Vanessa Marquette

With New York’s prison guard strike leading to Governor Hochul deploying the National Guard and a tentative deal now in place, questions remain about the broader implications for incarcerated individuals, corrections policy, and labor rights. I have three Syracuse University…

Campus & Community

The Life-Changing Benefits of a Fall Study Abroad Experience (Podcast)

Wednesday, February 19, 2025, By John Boccacino

As part its academic strategic plan, “Leading With Distinction,” the University is committed to removing barriers and creating opportunities so that all undergraduates can study abroad or away before they graduate. More than 50% of students explore the world through…

Campus & Community

Qualitative Data Repository: A National Resource for Managing Qualitative Data Across the Social Sciences

Tuesday, February 18, 2025, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University is home to the only data repository in the nation dedicated to the archiving, storage and sharing of digital data collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines. The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR),…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Students Win 18 of One Show Young Ones Awards

Friday, February 14, 2025, By News Staff

Students in the Newhouse School of Public Communications earned 18 awards in the 2024 One Show Young Ones student competition, which draws work from the top undergraduate, graduate and portfolio creative advertising programs around the world. The 2024 One Show…

Health & Society

Falk’s Miriam Mutambudzi Furthers Research on Health Disparities Among Older, Vulnerable Populations

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, By Matt Michael

From late 2007 until mid-2009, economies around the world plunged into a market decline known as the Great Recession–the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the United States, unemployment rates skyrocketed, housing prices and…

Media Tip Sheets

As COVID-19 Pandemic Approaches Fifth Anniversary, What’s Next?

Monday, February 10, 2025, By Daryl Lovell

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic after more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries. As we approach the five-year anniversary of the global public health emergency, there are still many uncertainties about how prepared…

Arts & Culture

Caribbean Art: Uncovering the Region’s Photographic Heritage Through Contemporary and Historical Works

Monday, February 10, 2025, By Dan Bernardi

On the surface, viewing a photo from a 1950s travel brochure of a pristine Caribbean beach with palm trees and sunshine might make you dream about a tropical vacation. But if you analyze that image more deeply, it can reveal…