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Campus & Community

Spring Semester Wellness Days

Wednesday, January 27, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: The spring academic calendar, with the elimination of spring break, creates a semester without many opportunities for students and faculty to take much-needed breaks from their academic work. To support the well-being of…

Arts & Culture

Community Folk Art Center Presents Exhibition ‘Stories My Grandmother Told Me’

Wednesday, January 27, 2021, By News Staff

In celebration of Black History Month, Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) presents “Stories My Grandmother Told Me,” featuring New Jersey-based artist Lavett Ballard. The exhibit runs through March 20. Ballard’s use of imagery reflects social issues affecting the African American…

Health & Society

A&S Speech Disorders Professor: Poet Amanda Gorman’s Story Shares Important Lesson

Monday, January 25, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

National Youth Poet Laureate and the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, Amanda Gorman, captured the world’s attention this month after she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” during the 2021 inauguration ceremonies. While her performance took people’s breath…

Media, Law & Policy

WAER Will Transition to the Newhouse School This Summer

Monday, January 25, 2021, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Syracuse radio station WAER will become part of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, effective July 1. The announcement was made today by Newhouse Dean Mark J. Lodato, WAER director and general manager Joe Lee and Kristian Klinger,…

STEM

Professor Rahman Awarded Google Grant to Engage Underrepresented Students in Computing Research

Saturday, January 23, 2021, By Alex Dunbar

Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Professor Farzana Rahman received a 2020 Google exploreCSR award to fund the development of an undergraduate student engagement workshop program, Research Exposure in Socially Relevant Computing (RESORC). The RESORC program will provide research opportunities…

Arts & Culture

Sound Beat: Access Audio Offering Children’s Audiobooks about Enslaved People by Cheryl Wills ’89

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Sound Beat: Access Audio is providing two free family audiobooks written by Emmy Award-winning journalist Cheryl Wills ’89,  the great-great-great granddaughter of Emma and Sandy Wills, enslaved people from Haywood, Tennessee. The audiobooks are narrated by the author and are…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Announces Changes to the 2020/2021 Season

Sunday, January 17, 2021, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage announced adjustments to the schedule for the remainder of the 2020/2021 season. These adjustments include replacing previously announced shows with new titles and come in direct response to the evolving situation concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting in February,…

Campus & Community

Syracuse in Shanghai Program Gives International Students an Orange Experience

Wednesday, January 13, 2021, By Brandon Dyer

International students planning to attend Syracuse University for the 2020-2021 school year knew it was going to be a different experience. The global pandemic has presented challenges to all students, but for first year international students, travel restrictions posed a…

STEM

A&S Researchers Awarded $2.1M Grant to Study Causes of Congenital Heart Defects

Wednesday, January 13, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1 percent of births in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Doctors have been unable to lower that number…

STEM

$1.5 Million NIH Grant Funds ALS-Linked Research

Tuesday, January 12, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The human body is made up of trillions of cells. Within each cell are proteins which help to maintain the structure, function and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs. When cells are under stress, as in response to heat…