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Amanda Claypool remembers the day the Twin Towers fell and the day U.S. warplanes bombed Baghdad as if it were yesterday. Those events shaped her academic career at Syracuse University, led her on a solo journey to Palestine’s West Bank…

World leaders are often defined by the decisions they make during times of crisis. Typically, decisions are made under the most stressful of conditions. Often decisions are made with little sleep. “Sometimes leaders and groups spend days working on these…

Career Services and the Office of Alumni Relations are bringing Capt. Matt Zeller, a 2006 graduate of the Maxwell School’s MPA/IR program, to campus on Wednesday, Feb. 6, as part of the Alumni Speaker Series. Zeller will speak about his…

The Syracuse University Department of Public Safety has embarked on a comprehensive process assessing services provided, with a focus on implementing improvement. Within the next week, DPS will be announcing appointments to new first line leadership assignments resulting from nearly a year of reorganization planning.

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed “too hard to keep.” T.H.T.K. (Too Hard to Keep) is a place for photographs, photo-objects and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to…

The tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has raised many questions about mental health, schools and violence. In an effort to help parents, teachers and others to better understand the issues, the Department of Psychology in…

On Jan. 18, nearly 40 School of Information Studies (iSchool) students headed down the Thruway to Buffalo to learn about technology practices at Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills, and First Niagara Center, home of the Buffalo Sabres….

Susan Furtney, who heads the University Wellness Initiative, wants faculty and staff members to envision what a dynamic, accessible network of health and wellness programs on campus would look like. Healthy cooking classes, a South Campus trail system and access to onsite cholesterol checks—or other possibilities to be suggested by the campus community—are some options to think about.

The Falk College’s Department of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and its Couple and Family Therapy Center have expanded their presence in the Syracuse community with a second location at 601 E. Genesee Street, which is known throughout the community as Peck Hall.

Applications are now being accepted for the Class of 2014 senior class marshals. The application deadline is Feb. 1. All current juniors who will be graduating in May 2014 are eligible to apply, and may be nominated by faculty, staff…