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Arts & Culture

Human Rights Film Festival Illuminates Stories of Freedom, Justice

Friday, September 14, 2018, By News Staff

Syracuse Symposium Continues “Stories” Theme with 16th annual SUHRFF The Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival (SUHRFF) returns for its 16th year as it once again brings to Central New York an outstanding lineup of critically acclaimed films addressing social…

STEM

Engineering and Computer Science Student Inventors Selected for Medical Device Innovation Accelerator

Friday, September 14, 2018, By News Staff

College of Engineering and Computer Science students Kayla Simon ’19 and Elizabeth Tarangelo ’19, co-founders of the In-Spire wearable asthma inhaler, have been accepted to the prestigious Medical Device Innovation Challenge (MDIC) accelerator program. They plan to advance their invention…

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Announces 2018-19 Syracuse Symposium

Friday, September 14, 2018, By Rob Enslin

“Stories” is the theme of the 2018-19 Syracuse Symposium, hosted by the Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Now in its 17th year, the annual public events series explores the humanities through an array…

Arts & Culture

College of Visual and Performing Arts Welcomes Seven New Faculty

Thursday, September 13, 2018, By Erica Blust

Seven new full-time faculty members joined the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) this fall. Their disciplines span communication and rhetorical studies, computer art and animation, film, industrial and interaction design and music composition. Natalie Draper Setnor School of…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Welcomes New Faculty

Wednesday, September 12, 2018, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management (Whitman School) has added new faculty members to its team for the 2018-19 academic year. Robert Arscott is an assistant professor of finance whose research primarily concerns the interaction of corporations and debt capital markets,…

Five Faculty Leaders Begin Yearlong Professional Development Program

Wednesday, September 12, 2018, By News Staff

With a focus on leadership development among faculty at member institutions, the Academic Consortium of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) formed the Academic Leaders Network (ALN). The goal: to facilitate cross-institutional collaboration among academic leaders while building leadership capacity at…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School Invites Undergraduate Students of Color to Daylong ‘Public Policy Camp’ for Career Exploration

Tuesday, September 11, 2018, By Jennifer Congel

The Maxwell School is partnering with the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management to host a one-day “Public Policy Camp” designed to introduce promising young students of color to the field and to help ensure that diverse perspectives are…

STEM

NSF I-Corps Comes to Syracuse University, Free Short Course Offered

Monday, September 10, 2018, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation I-Corps (NSF I-Corps) gives researchers the opportunity to combine their strong technical and scientific knowledge with an entrepreneurial mindset, with the goal of helping bring technologies to market. The Upstate New York I-Corps Node will bring…

Campus & Community

Wellness Programs Expand to Additional Campus Locations

Thursday, September 6, 2018, By News Staff

Wellness programs are coming to a location near you. With wellness programs in high demand and attendance steadily increasing, programming will expand to five convenient campus locations beginning this fall. Based on input from the faculty and staff wellness survey,…

STEM

Michael ’72 and Susan Thonis Establish Second Endowed Professorship of Earth Sciences

Thursday, September 6, 2018, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Tripti Bhattacharya, assistant professor of Earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and an expert in climate science, has been named the Thonis Family Professor (II). The professorship has been endowed through the generosity of Board of Trustees…