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Vice Chancellor Haynie Testifies before NYS Assembly Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Subcommittee on Women Veterans
On Wednesday, J. Michael Haynie, vice chancellor, and executive director and founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, testified before the New York State Assembly Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and Subcommittee on Women Veterans at the State Capitol…
ITS Staff Member Builds Beds for Families in Need
Jon Wright doesn’t particularly consider himself a woodworker. But his skills—and those of his close knit group of friends—have created beloved pieces of furniture for many delighted young people in the community. Wright, a support analyst with the University’s Information…
Invent@SU Team Wins Share of First Prize at New York State Department of Health Aging Innovation Challenge
Millions of people around the world with mobility challenges have trouble standing up from a chair or couch. During the Invent@SU program in summer 2017, communications and rhetorical studies major Kalia Zizi Barrow ’17 and mechanical engineering major Ruby Batbaatar…
The Brain That Changed Everything
Alexander R. Weiss ’12 has a library full of books and journals, from arcane treatises on science and engineering to timeless works of literature and philosophy. One book he holds dear is The New York Times Bestseller “The Brain That…
A Moral Vision of Science: Physicist Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 Believes Science and Morality are Inextricably Linked
Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 credits his longevity to luck and good genes. “I’ve always had a healthy constitution,” says the 88-year-old scientist and Holocaust survivor, who is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers…
Design Students’ Exhibition Addresses Microaggressions on Campus
Junior communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design have ventured to solve the subtle issues involved with microaggressions as perceived on campus through the exhibition “Microaggressions: Ignorance Does Not Equal Bliss,” part of…
UP Online Seminar Focuses on Retention of Online Students
University College (UC) hosted the fifth annual meeting of the University Partners for Online Education Strategies (UP Online) on Nov. 9, 2018. The annual meeting brings together regional colleagues working in online education to share ideas, address common problems, build…
Institute for Veterans and Military Families Receives Largest Single Research Grant to Date
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has received a $400,000 research grant from the Kauffman Foundation to study veteran and military-connected entrepreneurs as part of the foundation’s inaugural “Knowledge Challenge.” The award marks the largest…
University Set to Open Massive 238-Painting Exhibition, ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth,’ with Accompanying Public Discussion Hosted by Tanner Lecture Series, University Lectures
All 238 paintings in Robert Shetterly’s masterwork portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship” will be on public display for the first time en masse Nov. 29-Dec. 14 at Syracuse University. And the artist himself will…
iSchool Researchers to Study Election-Related Misinformation on WhatsApp
A pair of researchers from the Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have received a research award from the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging service to study the issues of misinformation transmitted over the…