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WellsLink Leadership Program Honors Scholars at Transitions Ceremony
The 16th Annual WellsLink Transition Ceremony will honor WellsLink Scholars who have successfully transitioned to their second year at Syracuse University. The WellsLink Leadership Program, led by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, provides first-year students with structured academic, social and…
Special Screening of ‘Knives and Skin’ by Award-Winning Director Jennifer Reeder to Be Held Nov. 7
Where is Carolyn Harper? The coming of age thriller “Knives and Skin” (trailer) by award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Reeder will be presented by Light Work’s Urban Video Project (UVP) on Thursday, Nov. 7, from 5:30–8 p.m. The free indoor screening will…
Military-Connected Student of the Month: Marine Corps Veteran Turned Air Force ROTC Cadet Caleb Holmes ’20
For some college students, juggling classes, a social life and a job is challenging enough. As non-traditional students become more of a fixture on college campuses, more students are juggling marriage, children, mortgage payments, car payments and family medical appointments…
Louisa Chase Prints Featured in Palitz Gallery Exhibition Opening October 21
The Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University’s Lubin House presents “Kamikaze Curiosity: Louisa Chase Prints,” on view beginning October 21. Curated by Andrew Saluti, assistant professor/program coordinator in the graduate program in museum studies at Syracuse University, the…
Remembrance Week Begins Sunday with Music, Message and Candlelight Vigil
This year marks the 31st anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988 and the 30th cohorts of Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars on the Syracuse University campus. The 2019-20 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have…
Music for People Workshop Being Held Oct. 26
Musicians of all ages and abilities are invited to attend a daylong Music for People (MfP) workshop at Onondaga Community College (OCC). Titled “A Day of Improvisation,” the workshop is Saturday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in…
South Campus Composting Program Turns Food Waste Into Rich Nutrients for Plants
Syracuse University Sustainability Management has launched a Student Composting Program for South Campus residents. The goal is to reduce the amount of organic material going into trash dumpsters. In January 2019, Sustainability Management piloted a composting program with a small…
Wordgathering, a Digital Open Access Journal of Work from Disabled Writers, Transitions to Publication at Syracuse University
Syracuse University’s Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) and Syracuse University Libraries will be assuming publication in December 2019 of the digital open access journal and website, Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Diane R. Wiener, research professor and associate…
Hush, Little Baby: Mother Right Whales ‘Whisper’ to Calves
On June 20, a whale researchers had named Punctuation was found dead in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, a busy international shipping channel. Punctuation—so named for her comma-shaped scars—was a North Atlantic right whale, a species severely threatened by human…
Advancing Scholarly Inquiry into Connections Between Religion, Spirituality and Social Change
Approximately one-third of millennials and post-millennials—young adults born 1981 and later—profess to have no connection to religion, according to the Pew Research Center. Yet evidence points to their strengthened humanitarian values and prominent spirituality. The degree to which religion is…