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Campus & Community

Syracuse University Receives STARS Silver Rating for Sustainability Achievements

Friday, February 15, 2019, By News Staff

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) has awarded a STARS Silver rating to Syracuse University in recognition of its sustainability achievements. The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects…

Campus & Community

Blackstone LaunchPad Hosting ‘Fireside Chat’ with Branding and Design Guru Paul Leibowitz ’84

Friday, February 8, 2019, By News Staff

An informal lunch with creative food for thought are on the menu in a Fireside Chat with Paul Leibowitz ’84, president and chief creative officer of Leibowitz Branding & Design, on Monday, Feb. 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m….

Campus & Community

Spring Semester Workshops Provide Professional Development to New and Current Supervisors

Friday, February 8, 2019, By News Staff

The Office of Human Resources is offering several professional development workshops throughout the spring semester for both new and current supervisors of benefits-eligible staff. The workshops initiative is an outcome of a recommendation by the Advisory Work Group on Staff…

Campus & Community

University’s Annual Service of Commemoration to Be Held March 20

Thursday, February 7, 2019, By News Staff

Syracuse University will hold its annual Service of Commemoration, honoring faculty, staff and students who have passed away since Jan. 1, 2018, on Wednesday, March 20, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will include prayer and music by…

Campus & Community

Be Alert for Tax Season Email Scams

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, By Christopher C. Finkle

It’s getting to be that time of year when scammers and phishers are going to use tax season as a pretext to try and steal usernames and passwords or to install malicious software—malware—on users’ computers. These phishing emails will likely…

Media Tip Sheets

The Unintended Result of the Shutdown: No One Will Want To Work for the Government

Friday, January 11, 2019, By Ellen Mbuqe

David Van Slyke, dean of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, is available to discuss the long-term consequences of the shutdown including that many people, especially young people from working for the government.  Those young people may instead choose to work for…

Washington Post

Women’s Magazine Industry Put Spotlight on Key Historic Issues

Wednesday, January 2, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Harriet Brown, magazine professor in the Newhouse School, was interviewed by the Washington Post for the article, “Women’s magazines are dying. Will we miss them when they’re gone?” “At a time when mainstream media didn’t pay attention to issues that…

STEM

Capstone Project Funds Local ‘Girls Who Code’ Chapter

Friday, December 21, 2018, By Diane Stirling

A capstone class project for a team of School of Information Studies (iSchool) students, working with an iSchool alumna at the Onondaga Free Library, has initiated a Girls Who Code chapter and an introduction to tech careers and coding skills for 11 Syracuse girls.

Media, Law & Policy

Guiding Syracuse Students Along Their Path to Becoming Media Entrepreneurs

Tuesday, December 18, 2018, By Eileen Korey

Though Sean Branagan ’80 aspired to be a magazine writer when he entered the Newhouse School, he discovered his calling elsewhere—in the fast-evolving field of digital media and interactive marketing. A self-described “instigator, entrepreneur, educator and startup coach,” Branagan brought…

Business & Economy

Invent@SU Students Turn Mouth Cleaning Device Into a $5 Million Business

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

For hundreds of years, the fundamental mechanism of cleaning your teeth through physical brushing has not changed very much—just variations of toothbrushes with bristles. Tairan Li and Chao Huang, industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and…