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Business & Economy

Alumna Develops a New-Fashioned Sustainability Initiative

Thursday, January 18, 2024, By Kwami Maranga

Fast fashion may seem affordable, but its true cost goes beyond the price tags on clothing. The industry’s unsustainable, unethical practices have negatively impacted the environment and its current lack of government regulations has allowed these practices to run rampant…

Campus & Community

Helping Address Hiring Crises, the Baldanza Fellows Program Expands to Syracuse City Schools

Thursday, January 18, 2024, By Martin Walls

Teacher shortages and a predominantly white teaching force are two persistent hiring trends that continue to challenge public schools nationwide. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 90% of school districts reported difficulties hiring teachers for the 2023-24…

Campus & Community

New Grant Allows Shaw Center’s Literacy Corps to Hire More Undergraduate Tutors

Tuesday, January 16, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Up to 100 new community engagement service positions tutoring children and teens in Syracuse City School District and other area schools have been made possible by a new grant to the Shaw Center Syracuse University Literacy Corps program. The grant…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Students Take Honors in Syracuse’s Inaugural Open Data Day

Friday, January 12, 2024, By News Staff

On a recent Saturday afternoon, students in Michiko Ueda-Ballmer’s Data-Driven Decision-Making class got to test what they’ve learned in a first-ever competition designed by the City of Syracuse to use data to address societal problems related to transportation. The class,…

Campus & Community

Art Gallery Will Be Part of Jan. 21 Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration

Friday, January 12, 2024, By Dara Harper

Syracuse University’s 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will include an art gallery exhibition in Club 44 on the western concourse level of the JMA Wireless Dome. To express the celebration theme of “The Reach of the…

Campus & Community

Facilitators, Participants Sought for English Conversation Partners Program

Friday, January 12, 2024, By Diane Stirling

International students and other non-native speakers of American English can practice speaking and gain fluency and a better understanding of the language through the Graduate School’s English Conversation Partners program. The concept is simple: through informal, one-to-one conversations about any…

Arts & Culture

Art Bridges Grant to Support Gordon Parks Exhibition at Syracuse University Art Museum Next Fall

Thursday, January 11, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Syracuse University Art Museum has received a grant from the Art Bridges Foundation to support the exhibition and related programming for “Homeward to the Prairie I Come: Gordon Parks Photographs,“ on loan from the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art…

Campus & Community

InclusiveU Student Sam Clark ’24 Brings His Dreams to Life Through Los Angeles Immersion Experiences

Thursday, January 11, 2024, By Jen Plummer

Sam Clark ’24 has known since he was 9 years old that he wanted to be a film director when he grew up. After a family trip to Egypt where his dad took hours and hours of video, Clark found…

Veterans

OVMA’s Kari Mickinkle Named a National Leader in Veterans’ Education

Tuesday, January 9, 2024, By Charlie Poag

Kari Mickinkle ’11, G’22, a school certifying official with the Office of Veteran Success in the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA), has been appointed vice president of the Association of Veterans Education Certifying Officials (AVECO). “It’s basically a…

Syracuse University Impact

Deep-Energy Retrofits Research Yields Promising Cost Savings, Human Well-Being Outcomes

Tuesday, January 9, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Modifying and upgrading building enclosures and mechanical systems in older, multi-family apartment buildings can achieve net-zero energy-use efficiencies and help inhabitants lower energy costs, breathe better air and live more comfortably—changes that have wide application for state and national climate-change…