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Progress Report: Enhancing the First-Year Experience
Dozens of students, faculty and staff have been engaged in refining the first-year forums, seminars and courses offered to students this fall. The collaborative group, known as the First-Year Experience Initiative Steering Committee, is also working on a long-term plan…
Third-Year Law Students Win Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition
Third-year law students Sarah Knickerbocker and Lacey Grummons won the seventh annual Bond, Schoeneck & King Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition, which took place in the Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom in Dineen Hall on Sept. 27. The team of Knickerbocker and…
Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ Opens the Department of Drama Season
The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama kicks off the 2018-19 season with Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Directed and choreographed by David Lowenstein, with musical direction by Brian Cimmet, the Department of Drama’s production takes a…
Physicist’s Discovery Recasts ‘Lifetime Hierarchy’ of Subatomic Particles
Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the lifetime of the so-called charmed omega—part of a family of subatomic particles called baryons—is nearly four times longer than previously thought. In an article in Physical Review Letters…
October is Disability Awareness and Appreciation Month
Throughout the month of October, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) and a host of campus partners and student organizations will host Disability Awareness and Appreciation Month. The month’s events will focus on disability and its many intersections. “We are very…
Scholar Amber Johnson to Speak on ‘Becoming the Justice Fleet: the Great Shift from Diversity to Radical Inclusion’
Amber Johnson, an award-winning assistant professor of communication and social justice at Saint Louis University and creator of the Justice Fleet, a mobile justice museum that interrogates radical forgiveness, will present “Becoming the Justice Fleet: The Great Shift from Diversity…
Fall Update 9.28.18
Friday, September 28, 2018 Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: With the new academic year underway, we want to update you on the work that has continued through the summer and into the fall semester. Greek Life Review • The Greek…
iSchool to Lead Partnership Expanding Internet Connectivity in Liberia
The School of Information Studies (iSchool), Imcon International and the Republic of Liberia will collaborate on the 40 in 2021 Project, a far-reaching initiative that will digitally transform the country of Liberia by increasing the nation’s current Internet penetration of…
WAER Inducts Len Berman ’68, G’70 and Steve Kroft ’71 into Hall of Fame
“I don’t think my life would have turned out the way it’s turned out if I hadn’t gone to Syracuse.” These were the words of Steve Kroft ’71 during the WAER Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on Friday, Sept. 14….
Information Session Scheduled for Spring Immersion Experiences
An information session has been scheduled to introduce the Spring 2019 Immersion Experiences at the School of Information Studies (iSchool). It will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. in 347 Hinds Hall (Katzer Room). As part of…