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Syracuse University today announced a new student-run Instagram account, @OurSyracuseU. The account will complement the University’s flagship @SyracuseU Instagram account by highlighting the Syracuse experience directly through the eyes of students.

R. David Lankes, professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) has been selected to receive the 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.  This honor is given annually…

Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences, has plenty to say about William Shakespeare, as the world marks the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. She returned to campus…

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud addressed the University Senate in a nearly full Maxwell Auditorium on Wednesday, Jan. 20. In his nearly 25-minute remarks, the Chancellor provided a comprehensive update on a number of items, including matters relative to student life, academic affairs, executive searches and Fast Forward Syracuse. Chancellor Syverud has been regularly delivering remarks at Senate meetings to provide an update on key University initiatives. This was his first to the University’s governing body since the start of 2016.

Three members of the Maxwell School community were appointed to a six-person bipartisan team that will advise the National Academy of Public Administration’s presidential transition panels. University Professor and Phanstiel Chair Sean O’Keefe G’78, former secretary of the Navy and NASA administrator;…

Professor of Law Arlene Kanter was a panelist during the “Strikingly Beautiful: A Celebration of Women & Girls With Disabilities” event held at the White House on Jan. 13. Kanter participated in the “Strike Back” panel, a discussion on violence…

Making water more available in New York City public schools through self-serve water dispensers in cafeterias resulted in small—but statistically significant—declines in students’ weight, according to new findings. The study, published Jan. 19 in the online issue of JAMA Pediatrics,…

In March 2015, Syracuse University announced a student health insurance plan and policy, requiring all full-time, matriculated students—including undergraduate, graduate and law students—to carry qualifying health insurance coverage. As the University prepares for the 2016-17 policy implementation for all full-time,…

The Maxwell dean search committee, led by David Van Slyke, associate dean and chair of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs and the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy, will hold a series of town…

When patients undergo traditional knee replacement surgery, the bone and cartilage that make up the knee joint is replaced with one built with metal, plastic and polymers. Along with their natural joint, patients lose a certain quality of life. Risk…