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Campus & Community

Rising Above Hate and Fear

Friday, November 29, 2019, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: In recent weeks, our community has been subjected to a torrent of hate speech. It has been scrawled on our walls, stamped in the snow, emailed to our faculty, yelled from crowds and posted online….

Campus & Community

NeuroArchitectureImaging Video Installation to Preview Dec. 5

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, By Julie Sharkey

On Thursday, Dec. 5, at 9 p.m., portions of the glass façade and atrium of Ernie Davis Hall at 619 Comstock Ave. will be transformed into an exhibition that explores the ways neuroscientists and architects “see” and “think” with computationally…

Media, Law & Policy

With the Innovation Law Center’s Help, a SUNY-ESF Professor ‘Ticks Away’ at a Growing Bug Problem

Monday, November 25, 2019, By News Staff

The world measures 510 million square kilometers in surface area. Think about how small you are on that scale. Now think about something—an arachnid—even smaller, around 10 millimeters at biggest. One would assume that such a small speck couldn’t possibly…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Abroad Ranked No. 11 Best Study Abroad Program

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, By News Staff

U.S. News & World Report has recently ranked Syracuse Abroad as the No. 11 best study abroad program in the country. In spring 2019, U.S. News asked college presidents, deans and academic officers from more than 1,500 colleges and universities…

Campus & Community

University Response to Student Concerns

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: A series of deeply troubling incidents involving hate speech directed at African American, Asian and Jewish students have occurred in our community over the last 10 days. Two groups of students—those who have…

Health & Society

Water Ambassador Henk Ovink to Present Lecture on Climate Action by Design

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, By Julie Sharkey

The School of Architecture will host Henk Ovink, the world’s only water ambassador, on Wednesday, November 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Fisher Center, for a lecture titled “Climate Action by Design.” A Netherlands native, Ovink has lived his life…

Campus & Community

Message from Chancellor Syverud

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, I am writing this morning to express my serious concern over the racist graffiti and vandalism found in Day Hall. I also want to address our response to this wrongful act, the status of the…

Campus & Community

Message from Robert Hradsky, Vice President for the Student Experience

Monday, November 11, 2019, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is investigating racist graffiti and vandalism that occurred on the 4th and 6th floors of Day Hall last week. On Thursday, Nov. 7, students first alerted authorities, prompting an…

STEM

Beyond Lithium-Ion: Next Generation Battery Research Underway

Thursday, November 7, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

New smartphones, portable devices and electric cars may get a lot of the public’s attention but all of them are dependent on batteries to make them run. Most current devices use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries—technology that was first commercialized in the…