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Campus & Community

Nominations Sought for Teaching Recognition Award for Non-Tenured Faculty Members

Monday, December 17, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Nominations are being accepted for the Teaching Recognition Award to highlight outstanding teaching by non-tenured faculty members. The Teaching Recognition Award, a component of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorship program,, recognizes excellence in teaching and encourages a…

Campus & Community

Chancellor’s Citation Selection Committee Announced; Deadline for Nominations Set

Friday, December 14, 2018, By News Staff

The members of the 2018-19 Chancellor’s Citation Selection Committee have been announced and a deadline for nominations is set. Members of the committee review nominations for the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence and submit their recommendations to Chancellor Kent Syverud. The…

Campus & Community

2018-19 Winter Break/Orange Appreciation Days Operating Schedule Announced

Friday, December 14, 2018, By News Staff

The University will be operating under its Orange Appreciation Days format for the Winter Break period from 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, through Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. During the Holiday/Orange Appreciation Days period: All academic and administrative buildings…

Campus & Community

ITS Staff Member Builds Beds for Families in Need

Thursday, December 13, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

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…

Media Tip Sheets

Alarming Arctic Warming Not Likely To Sound Alarm With Federal Policymakers

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, By Daryl Lovell

This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report detailing rising temperatures and increased melting in the Arctic Ocean. Ice older than four years now makes up less than one percent of the Arctic ice pack, according to…

STEM

Petroleum Experts to Donate MOVE Software Licenses to Syracuse

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Members of the Department of Earth Sciences will gain new insights into Earth’s crust, thanks to a licensing agreement between Syracuse University and Petroleum Experts (Petex), a leading developer of optimization software for the oil and gas industries. The Scotland-based…

STEM

Invent@SU Team Wins Share of First Prize at New York State Department of Health Aging Innovation Challenge

Tuesday, December 11, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

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…

STEM

Can Isik Named Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Tuesday, December 11, 2018, By News Staff

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly has announced that Can Isik, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will become interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), effective Jan. 1, 2019. Isik succeeds Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg,…

The Hill

Strategic Management Professor Featured in The Hill Op-Ed

Friday, December 7, 2018, By Sean Dorcellus

Sean O’Keefe, University Professor and the Howard and Louise Phanstiel endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership at the Maxwell School, was featured in The Hill with the op-ed “So what’s the big deal about Mars InSight?” O’Keefe said that “Mars…

Psychology Today

Institute for Veterans and Military Families Highlighted in Story

Friday, December 7, 2018, By Sean Dorcellus

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families was highlighted in the Psychology Today story “New Collar Jobs Are New Pathways to Employment.” “In partnership with Syracuse University, Accenture has developed the Institute for Veterans and  Military Families.  Along with the…