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Community Folk Art Center Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Ailey II Dance Performance at Landmark Theatre

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, By Cjala Surratt

The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), a unit of the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, celebrates its 50th anniversary with a performance by the Ailey II – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, featuring…

Arts & Culture

La Casita to Commemorate Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month With New Exhibition: ‘Once Upon a Time…A Toy Show’

Monday, September 12, 2022, By News Staff

La Casita will commemorate Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15) with the opening of a new exhibition: “Once Upon a Time… A Toy Show / Erase una vez… un show de juguetes,” on Friday, Sept. 16, from 6…

Campus & Community

CLASS Peer-to-Peer Learning Strategies Project Receives NSF Grant to Extend Training, Research

Monday, September 12, 2022, By Diane Stirling

The Center for Learning and Student Success (CLASS) has received a National Science Foundation grant of $240,000 to expand a peer-to-peer academic coaching program that acquaints students with effective learning strategies and helps them adopt those tactics in their STEM…

Campus & Community

Action-Based Programs for Diabetes Prevention, Blood Pressure Management Offered to Faculty and Staff

Monday, September 12, 2022, By Jen Plummer

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 38% of all U.S. adults live with prediabetes, the precursor to type 2 diabetes, and nearly half (47%) have hypertension, or high blood pressure. While these statistics…

Campus & Community

Fulbright Scholars Return to Syracuse University In-Person After 2 Years

Monday, September 12, 2022, By Hope Alvarez

They never intended to meet. Daniela Orozco Poveda was from Colombia, while Jonato Xavier was from Timor-Leste, a nation located on the island of Timor between Indonesia and Australia. While they were once strangers living oceans apart, the world suddenly…

Campus & Community

Tarryn Mento Named WAER News Director

Thursday, September 8, 2022, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Tarryn Mento, professional in residence at WAER, has been named the station’s news director. The announcement was made by executive director and general manager Chris Bolt. “Tarryn has a professional past that shows commitment to elevating journalism and creativity,” Bolt…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Students Eyeing Scholarship Money on NBC’s ‘Capital One College Bowl’

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, By John Boccacino

During a casual meal at a Mexican restaurant outside of Atlanta, four current Syracuse University students who consider themselves trivia experts—Sanjeev Uppaluri ’24, Zoë McCreary ’23, Emma Lambiaso ’24 and Adam Schulman ’25—gather at a table in early June, about…

Food Insecurity Has Worsened for the Elderly and Women Living Alone

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

Today, the USDA released the Household Food Security in the United States in 2021 detailing the level of food insecurity at the national level in 2021 indicating that the level of food insecurity, 10.2%, is unchanged from the level in…

Health & Society

Falk College Hosts Conference to Address Pressing Challenges Facing Young People

Thursday, August 25, 2022, By News Staff

Social workers, teachers, staff and administrators from schools and school districts across Central New York filled the halls of Falk College this past spring for the inaugural Resilience and Equity Conference created by Finger Lakes Community Schools and sponsored by…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents ‘Caribbean Dreams’ by Brooklyn-Based Photographer Samantha Box

Wednesday, August 17, 2022, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work presents “Caribbean Dreams” by Brooklyn-based photographer Samantha Box. Opening Thursday, Sept. 1, in Light Work’s Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, this solo exhibition is a series of complex studio still lifes of personal, familial and regionally referenced objects, heirlooms, fruits,…