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Campus & Community

First-Year Seminar Home College Experience Helps Students Find Belonging

Monday, November 1, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Engineering and computer science students learned about the cultures and traditions of their faculty and fellow students. Students in the School of Information Studies toured campus and got professional headshots. Whitman School of Management students explored clubs and resources. These…

Media Tip Sheets

Amazon Sticks to Its Playbook in Latest Unionization Push in NYC

Monday, November 1, 2021, By Lily Datz

Organizers from Staten Island’s Amazon facilities have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union. They’ve collected roughly 2,000 signatures. It’s the latest in a series of similar moves by other Amazon warehouse workers to…

Arts & Culture

Join the Lender Center Conversation: ‘Creative Activity as a Human Right’

Sunday, October 31, 2021, By Matt Michael

For James Haywood Rolling Jr. ’91, the upcoming “Creative Activity as a Human Right” event is two months in the planning but decades in the making. Rolling, a dual professor of arts education in the College of Visual and Performing…

Campus & Community

Orange Central | Halloween | Orange After Dark

Thursday, October 28, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students and Families: The energy on campus is palpable this week as alumni return for Orange Central. I hope you had an opportunity to participate in the homecoming activities hosted by the Traditions Commission and Student Activities all week,…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Awarded Inaugural Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarships

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Two School of Architecture students have received a prestigious national scholarship for young Black designers by Gensler, one of the world’s largest design and architecture firms. Krystol Austin G’22 (M.Arch.) and Coumba Kanté ’22 (B.Arch.) were named two of the…

USA Today

Backlog of Ships Stuck At U.S. Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach

Tuesday, October 26, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice and director of Executive Education in the Whitman School, was interviewed by USA Today, Albany Times Union and CNYCentral about the supply chain issues that continue to plague businesses and industries. With the current backlog of shipping containers…

Campus & Community

First-Year Seminar Curriculum Rewards Lead Instructors With Connection

Monday, October 25, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Why do faculty and staff from across the University volunteer to lead sections of the First-Year Seminar? Consuelo Endrigo-Williams and Rhonda Chester do it for the connection with students and the life of the University outside the boundaries of their…

Campus & Community

Disability Justice Advocate Eli Clare Is CNY Humanities Corridor’s 2021 Distinguished Visiting Collaborator

Monday, October 25, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The Syracuse University Humanities Center, in partnership with the Cornell Society for the Humanities, welcomes author and social justice educator, Eli Clare, as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor. A leading thinker at the intersection of queerness, race and…

Business & Economy

A $1.25 Million Gift Ensures Whitman Students Stand Ready to IMPRESS in the Business World

Monday, October 25, 2021, By Eileen Korey

Kenneth “Kenny” Goodman ’70 knows what it takes to be successful in the business world and he has committed himself to ensuring that Syracuse University graduates are a step ahead and better prepared to compete in a fast-changing world.  That’s…

The Atlantic

NASA’s Controversy In Naming Their New Telescope

Sunday, October 24, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Sean O’Keefe, University Professor at the Maxwell School, was interviewed by The Atlantic for the article “This Isn’t the Big Telescope Debut NASA Imagined.” O’Keefe, who was the NASA administrator in 2002, discussed the impact Webb, whom this new telescope…