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Golden Key School Supply Drive to Benefit Ed Smith School Now Underway

Thursday, October 9, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Members of Syracuse University chapter of Golden Golden Key International Honour Society are holding a school supply drive to benefit students at the Ed Smith School in the Syracuse City School District. The “SPARK A Change” school supply drive is…

Deborah A. Coquillon Memorial Award Helps Seniors ‘Pay It Forward’

Thursday, October 9, 2014, By Rob Enslin

When Tesia Kim ’13 began working for Teach for America, she found herself at a medical prep school in Chicago that was so poor, some of her students couldn’t afford binders and notebooks. “Two students didn’t have $25 for scrubs,”…

Members of Campus Community Send the Message ‘You Are Not Alone’

Thursday, October 9, 2014, By News Staff

In honor of National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11, many members of the campus community submitted their names to be included in the annual “You Are Not Alone” list. The names listed “are a declaration to Syracuse University/SUNY ESF of…

Pride of the Orange, Syracuse Athletics Get Boost as Alumni Establish Twirler, Lacrosse Scholarships

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Erica Blust

Lifelong Orange supporters John H. ’59 (ESF) and Janet K. (Smith) Dean ’61 (VPA), who met and later married on the Syracuse University campus, have established two new student scholarships: the Janet Kay Smith Feature Twirler Scholarship and the John…

Application Period Opens for 10th Annual Winston Fisher Seminar

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

It’s only the second month of the new academic year and already the College of Arts and Sciences is busily preparing for the 10th annual Winston Fisher Seminar, a weeklong immersion program timed to coincide with spring break 2015. Named…

Phi Beta Sigma Hosts Annual Women of Distinction Event

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Shannon Andre

On Wednesday, Oct. 15, the Theta Xi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., hosts the fourth annual Women of Distinction event in Goldstein Auditorium at 7:14 p.m. This year’s panelists include reality and television star Alani “LaLa” Anthony, Primetime…

Nomination Deadline Extended for MLK Unsung Heroes Award

Tuesday, October 7, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse University Martin Luther King Jr. 2015 Celebration committee is seeking nominations for the Unsung Heroes Award, which will be presented during the evening celebration in the Carrier Dome on Jan. 18, 2015. The awards are presented annually to…

Women’s and Gender Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs to Host Prominent Chicana Scholar

Monday, October 6, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Laura Elisa Pérez, associate professor of ethnic studies, author, and the only Chicana scholar tenured in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a lecture titled, “Undocumented Flower Crossings, Walking Altars, and Latina/o…

STEM

Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

Monday, October 6, 2014, By News Staff

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…

University Community Members Tell Their Stories in Dialogue on Diversity

Monday, October 6, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Students had a chance to be heard, to tell their stories of challenges at Syracuse University and their hopes for its future, in a discussion meant to be just the beginning. More than 250 students, faculty and staff gathered to…