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Campus & Community

2017 Compete CNY – iPrize Winners Announced

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Winners have been announced for the 2017 Compete CNY – iPrize competition, held March 24 at Syracuse University. The event was coordinated by the Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University and hosted by Syracuse University Libraries. Open to all Central New…

STEM

iPrize, CompeteCNY Make $140,000 Available for Student Pitch Competition

Monday, February 27, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Entrepreneurial students on campus will have the opportunity to test their pitch skills for prize money in a new competition supported in part by the Raymond Von Dran (RvD) Fund for Student Entrepreneurship at the School of Information Studies (iSchool)….

Syracuse University Impact

Innovative Student Group Designs Inclusive Clothing for Neurodivergent Community

Monday, April 21, 2025, By John Boccacino

Carolyn Fernandes ’25 remembers walking out of an interview for a design internship that she ended up not getting. She wondered if fidgeting with her nails—a common, repetitive expression of her nervous energy every day—was misconstrued as a sign of…

Syracuse University Impact

Celebrating 30 Years of the Shaw Center as a Hub for Academic Community Engagement (Podcast)

Monday, April 14, 2025, By John Boccacino

Community engagement. Reciprocal learning. Service to others through volunteering. Those were the principles behind the creation of the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service in 1994 under the direction of then-Syracuse University Chancellor Kenneth Shaw and his…

Arts & Culture

New Name, New Strategic Priorities for ‘Arts at Syracuse University’

Friday, September 27, 2024, By Diane Stirling

A yearlong reimagining of ways to distinguish and enhance the array of arts and cultural programming offered at the University has resulted in a name change for the  Coalition of Museums and Art Centers, a new website and a new…

Media Tip Sheets

The Misinformation Threatening the Pro-Democracy Movement of Bangladesh

Friday, August 16, 2024, By Ellen Mbuqe

Reporters covering the ongoing issues in Bangladesh after a pro-democracy protest overthrew the government of Sheikh Hasina, please see comments from Syracuse University Professor Farhana Sultana. Professor Sultana wrote an op-ed in The Diplomat about the misinformation targeting the democratic….

Syracuse University Impact

‘We Are Not a People of the Past’: Not in the Books Project Builds Ties With Indigenous Community

Monday, June 17, 2024, By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Senior Isabelle Lutz joined a group of fellow Syracuse University students and community members for a short bus ride last fall to the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center—the Haudenosaunee cultural hub on the shore of Onondaga Lake in Liverpool….

Campus & Community

Natasha Brao and Thomas Montfort Awarded Hunter’s Fund Grants

Monday, March 4, 2024, By Cristina Hatem

Natasha Brao ’22, G’23, G’24 and Thomas Montfort ’24 have been selected as spring 2024 recipients of Hunter Brooks Watson Memorial Fund (Hunter’s Fund) grant awards through a highly competitive national application. The grants reward innovation and reflect on the…

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Supports Four Spring 2024 Fellows

Thursday, February 29, 2024, By Caroline K. Reff

Humanities practitioners put current issues and events into perspective by encouraging critical thinking and analysis, challenging beliefs and values, sparking creativity and encouraging global citizenship and immersing in history. In an effort to further a world that is healthier, hopeful…

Veterans

Generosity of Soldiers Inspired Benetta Dousuah G’25 to Enlist in the Army

Monday, February 26, 2024, By Charlie Poag

U.S. Army veteran Benetta Dousuah G’25, currently a graduate student in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, vividly recalls her family’s escape from Liberia during the back-to-back civil wars that ravaged the nation between 1989 and 2003. Initially…