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Beyond the Badge: DPS Officer Grateful for Opportunity to Support Black Reign Step Team as Advisor
As the library operations coordinator for the Department of Public Safety (DPS), Officer George Wazen believes that sincerity, compassion and understanding are the keys to successfully engaging with the students he oversees as part of the library student floor monitoring…
Syracuse University Libraries’ Module-2 Storage Facility Progresses Toward Completion
Construction is well underway on the second module of the Syracuse University Libraries’ storage facility on South Campus, which will house some of the University’s most treasured multimedia and special collections holdings. The 15,000-square-foot facility will include cool and cold…
Native Heritage Month 2021 Celebration
Each November, the Native Student Program in Multicultural Affairs, in collaboration with campus partners and student organizations, host a series of events in honor of Native Heritage Month. The schedule of events explores and celebrates the contributions, histories, cultures and…
SU Press and IVMF Announce 2021 Veterans Writing Award Winner
Syracuse University Press announces that Brian O’Hare’s short story collection “Something Hidden” is the winner of the 2021 Veterans Writing Award. O’Hare is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Currently, he’s an award-winning…
SU Press Celebrates University Press Week
The Syracuse University Press is celebrating the 10th annual University Press Week (UP Week) Nov. 8-12. In honor of UP Week, the Libraries will host a display featuring books from Syracuse University Press. SU Press is also offering a 50% off…
Join the Lender Center Conversation: ‘Creative Activity as a Human Right’
For James Haywood Rolling Jr. ’91, the upcoming “Creative Activity as a Human Right” event is two months in the planning but decades in the making. Rolling, a dual professor of arts education in the College of Visual and Performing…
Public Housing Violence Research Earns Top Honor for Maxwell Doctoral Student
Madeleine “Maddy” Hamlin ’17 M.A./M.P.A. says a books-for-inmates program she was involved in as a high school student in Urbana, Illinois, was the early spark that ultimately led to research focusing on urban issues ranging from public housing to mass…
First-Year Seminar Curriculum Rewards Lead Instructors With Connection
Why do faculty and staff from across the University volunteer to lead sections of the First-Year Seminar? Consuelo Endrigo-Williams and Rhonda Chester do it for the connection with students and the life of the University outside the boundaries of their…
Expert Available to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine for Children
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s independent vaccine advisers are meeting Tuesday to discuss Pfizer’s request for authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11. If the FDA approves it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent advisory…
Facebook Struggles To Keep Its Positive Image Alive Amidst Internal Conflict
Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, was quoted in multiple outlets in stories about Facebook. They include The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, and The Associated Press. In the story for the Los Angeles Times, Grygiel discussed…