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Invest Syracuse Progress: Syracuse University Launches Signature Hires Initiative

Wednesday, June 6, 2018, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University has launched a new Signature Hires Initiative to strengthen teaching and research capacity through the addition of 100 new faculty over the next five years. A critical component of the University’s $100 million Invest Syracuse: Advancing Academic Excellence…

Campus & Community

Stretch and Breathe Begins, Various Days and Locations

Tuesday, June 5, 2018, By News Staff

Faculty and staff are invited to join us for Stretch and Breathe again this summer. It’s a 20-minute class designed to help you unplug and clear your mind. You will relax your mind, body and soul. It will be the…

Campus & Community

Students, Faculty Are on Top of the World

Monday, June 4, 2018, By Keith Kobland

A group of Syracuse University students and faculty are quite literally on top of the world. The group is currently in Nepal, taking part in the summer program Mount Everest Base Camp: The Human Response to High Altitude. Base camp…

Campus & Community

Clements Award Supports Nine Students with Unique Internships

Friday, June 1, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

The Mark and Pearle Clements Internship Awards enable Syracuse University students to hold unique internships that would not be possible without financial help. After an extensive application process, nine students were awarded the Clements Internship Award for their internship this year. “Clements…

Campus & Community

Reminder of Sidewalk Closure on Campus

Wednesday, May 30, 2018, By News Staff

Two sidewalk closures are planned for May 31- June 1 as part of the Syracuse University chilled water utility improvements that will provide cooling to Hendricks Chapel and the Barnes Center at The Arch. The short-term sidewalk closures are in…

Campus & Community

Annual Strawberry Festival Scheduled for June 8 on the Quad

Wednesday, May 30, 2018, By Eileen Jevis

Syracuse University’s annual Strawberry Festival is scheduled for Friday, June 8, from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The Strawberry Festival is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to learn more about campus departments and academic programs and celebrate the summer season…

STEM

Stripling Elected to Board of Freedom to Read Foundation

Tuesday, May 29, 2018, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor of Practice and Senior Associate Dean Barbara Stripling has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF). She will begin her term in June after the organization’s…

Campus & Community

Indigenous Student Graduation Reception Honors Students at Its 15th Annual Event

Tuesday, May 29, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

The Office of Multicultural Affairs’ Native Student Program celebrated graduating Indigenous students during the 15th annual Indigenous Student Graduation Reception on May 5. The University’s Indigenous students earned 17 bachelor’s degrees, four master’s degrees, one J.D. and one Ph.D. It…

The Week

The New Way to Successfully Crowdfund

Friday, May 25, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Makana Chock, an associate professor of communications at the Newhouse School, recently spoke with The Week about the future of crowdfunding, and how some companies are succeeding in earning more donations thanks to evoking feelings and emotions within donors. “There…

Campus & Community

Excellence Personified

Monday, May 21, 2018, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) celebrated the accomplishments of its 2017-18 fellows. The cohort consisted of semesterlong Faculty Fellows as well as yearlong Dissertation Fellows and Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellows. Vivian May, director of the…