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Veterans

Student Veterans Visit the Big Apple to Connect With Industry Leaders

Tuesday, November 8, 2022, By Charlie Poag

Student veterans recently traveled to New York City on a four-day trip sponsored by the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA). The 13 students weren’t going to make the standard tourist rounds the city is known for though. They…

Media Tip Sheets

Issues Behind Military Recruitment

Tuesday, November 8, 2022, By Vanessa Marquette

Our country continues to face a military recruiting crisis – as many branches are offering sign-on bonuses and other incentives to get more people to join. Sean McFate, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct professor at…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Celebrates the Holidays With ‘2 Ring Circus’ and ‘Disney’s The Little Mermaid’

Thursday, November 3, 2022, By Joanna Penalva

Put the “sea” in the holiday season with the family favorite musical “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” at Syracuse Stage Nov. 25-Jan. 8. Tickets are available now at syracusestage.org or through the Box Office (315.443.3275). All ticket purchases are protected by…

STEM

Syracuse University Student Chosen as First Micron Intern Hire From Syracuse Veteran Community

Tuesday, November 1, 2022, By Kathleen Haley

Savion Pollard ’25 joined the U.S. Navy as a 21-year-old looking to be part of something bigger than himself and inspire others. Pollard served for eight years, working as a nuclear electronics technician on nuclear submarines and training other sailors;…

Health & Society

Lender Center Brings Labor Movement Leaders to Campus to Discuss the Fight for Workers’ Rights

Tuesday, November 1, 2022, By Jen Plummer

The revitalization of the American labor movement and the struggle for racial and economic justice were the central topics of a Lender Center Conversation held Monday, Oct. 24, in Dineen Hall. After introductory remarks from current and former leadership of…

Campus & Community

Remembrance Week Lecture on Trauma, Identity, Community and the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, part of the Special Collections Research Center, is sponsoring a public lecture on Friday, Oct. 21, from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library,…

Campus & Community

CUSE Grant Funding Moves Virtual Resilience Writing Project Forward

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, By Diane Stirling

As a master’s student years ago, Lenny Grant did community outreach for his college’s writing center, working with a group of widows aged 75 to 96 as they wrote about their life experiences. Little did he know that he’d take…

NBC News

The Problem With Ghee Trending on TikTok

Monday, October 3, 2022, By Julia Mazzer

Sudha Raj, teaching professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies in Falk College, was interviewed for the NBC News story “Influencers are eating ghee by the spoonful. Brands are responding with whitewashed…

STEM

Mihovilovic Skanata Awarded McKnight Neuroscience Grant for Larval Fruit Fly Brain Research

Friday, September 30, 2022, By Diane Stirling

An assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences has won a prestigious McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience award to advance her two-photon microscopy research on neural activity in the brains of fruit fly larvae. Mirna Mihovilovic…

Business & Economy

Falk College Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Explores Ways to Benefit Farmworkers and Farmers

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, By Matt Michael

Laura-Anne Minkoff Zern, an associate professor of Nutrition and Food Studies in Falk College, says the focus of her field—food system sustainability and fair access to healthy food—often overlooks one key element: The people who labor to grow that food….