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Campus & Community

Students, Faculty, Staff Invited to Participate in Climate Assessment Survey

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

The Syracuse University Climate Assessment Survey is now under way and continues through March 11. All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to take the survey in its convenient online format or in a paper-and-pencil version available at the information…

Campus & Community

Baptist Campus Ministry Team Finds Hope, Joy in Work with Earthquake Survivors

Monday, February 8, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

In the terraced landscape of Nepal, a team from the Baptist Campus Ministry worked alongside residents disassembling crumbled homes and marking plots of homes that will be rebuilt following last year’s crippling earthquake.

Arts & Culture

ARC Students’ Award-Winning Design to Model Future Green Development in China

Monday, February 8, 2016, By Elaine Wackerow

Three architecture M.S. students in Assistant Professor Fei Wang’s fall 2015 “Low-Carbon City” studio have won second-place—and a $30,000 prize—in the international competition sponsored by the Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (IBR) for design of Shenzhen, China’s Future Low-Carbon Building…

Arts & Culture

Liberal Arts Prepares Paul Karlitz ’93 for Career and Life Success

Friday, February 5, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

For Paul Karlitz ’93, a political science degree based in the liberal arts was just what he needed to succeed academically and in many life aspects afterwards. “Liberal arts was great for me because it wasn’t too narrowly focused or…

Campus & Community

SU Achieves American Heart Association Gold as a Fit-Friendly Worksite

Thursday, February 4, 2016, By News Staff

For the first time, Syracuse University has been recognized by the American Heart Association with its Gold Achievement award for the University’s efforts to support employee heart health and be a Fit-Friendly Worksite. “This is recognition that the University is…

Health & Society

Scholar Spotlight: Cora Cool-Mihalyi ’16

Thursday, February 4, 2016, By News Staff

Cora Cool-Mihalyi, a graduating senior in the School of Education and a Say Yes Scholar, firmly believes in and exemplifies the principle that all children deserve the right to equal education, regardless of their background or disabilities. Cool-Mihalyi is completing…

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Presents Renowned ‘Information Designer’ Feb. 10-11

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong theme of “Networks” with a visit by an expert on rhetoric, technology and research. Clay Spinuzzi, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will deliver a lecture titled “Three Networks Walk into…

STEM

CASE Awards Three $50,000 Grants for Collaborative Research

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, By News Staff

The Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University announced the winners of its inaugural University-Industry Seed Funding Competition. This unique program provides New York State companies with an opportunity to receive up to $50,000 in leading-edge University-based…

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Presents ‘Earth, Water, Woman’ Feb. 6

Tuesday, February 2, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences continues its spring schedule with a screening of “Earth, Water, Woman,” a 2013 documentary about community and sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. The screening is Saturday,…

Health & Society

Journal Publishes Doctoral Candidate’s Findings on Beetle Promiscuity

Tuesday, February 2, 2016, By Carol Boll

Elizabeth Droge-Young has long been fascinated by the mysteries and motivations behind sexual selection. But the promiscuity among females of one particular species—the red flour beetle—had her particularly stumped. These beetles would mate multiple times over the course of a…