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Campus & Community

Alumni Awards Set for Next Week; Meet the 2024 Honorees, Including 2 New Awards

Thursday, April 4, 2024, By News Staff

Syracuse University will honor eight distinguished members of the Orange community during the 2024 Alumni Awards Celebration, which are being held from 4:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 12, 2024. The celebration, which is free to attend, will occur in the…

Campus & Community

Centennial Scholars Named in Honor of the Maxwell School’s 100th Anniversary

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, By News Staff

While pursuing a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and international relations at the Maxwell School, Anna Terzaghi says she has come to care greatly about people —”the lives they live, the culture they are surrounded by, the stories they tell.” “I…

Health & Society

The Impact of China’s Rapidly Aging Society

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, By Matt Michael

Due to its economic growth and large population, the People’s Republic of China is widely viewed as a rising economic and military superpower. But declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make…

STEM

Record Five Syracuse University Students Selected for Prestigious 2024 Goldwater Scholarship

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Five Syracuse University students have been selected for the 2024 Goldwater Scholarship, the preeminent undergraduate scholarship awarded in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the U.S. This is the first time Syracuse has had five students selected for the…

Health & Society

Racial Wealth Gap Research Presented at MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Event

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, By Diane Stirling

The U.S. racial wealth gap was the focus of a symposium hosted by the Lender Center for Social Justice last week. “Interrogating the Racial Wealth Gap: Thinking Locally,” featured presentations by five faculty teams whose research is supported by 2023…

Syracuse University Impact

InclusiveU Program Celebrates 10 Years of Offering a Fully Inclusive College Experience to Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

For the past 10 years, InclusiveU in Syracuse University’s School of Education (SOE) has given students with intellectual and developmental disabilities a college experience in a fully inclusive setting. On Thursday, April 4, family, friends and supporters of the program…

Campus & Community

Students Encouraged to Complete Survey That Will Inform Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention and Response

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, By Gabrielle Lake

On March 25, the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence launched the Sexual and Relationship Violence Survey. The Office of Institutional Research administers this anonymous survey to a random group of undergraduate, graduate and law students every two…

STEM

Caller ID of the Sea: Biologists Discover Link Between Whale Communication and Behavior

Monday, April 1, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

For researchers studying the acoustic behavior of whales, distinguishing which animal is vocalizing is like a teacher trying to figure out which student responded first when the entire class is calling out the answer. This is because many techniques used…

Arts & Culture

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to Kick Off ‘Cruel April’ Poetry Series

Monday, April 1, 2024, By Diane Stirling

As a “natural wonderer, dreamer, traveler… mega listener…and only child,” poet Juan Felipe Herrera grew up in California’s San Joaquín and Salinas Valleys “listening to everything and everyone,” he says, and those habits led him “to the magical lands of…

STEM

‘A Beautiful, Once-In-a-Lifetime Event’: The Total Solar Eclipse on April 8

Friday, March 29, 2024, By John Boccacino

Walter Freeman’s “Introduction to Astronomy” classes always end the same way they began, with Freeman advising his students that, ultimately, “we look at the stars because they are pretty and they illuminate who we are as humanity.” That humanity will…