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Syracuse University Experts: COVID-19

Monday, November 29, 2021, By Lily Datz

For members of the media looking for experts to comment on the complex and ever-changing issues around the COVID-19 pandemic, please see the Syracuse University faculty experts listed below. For additional media assistance, please contact: Ellen Mbuqe, Director of News…

Arts & Culture

Join the Lender Center Conversation: ‘Creative Activity as a Human Right’

Sunday, October 31, 2021, By Matt Michael

For James Haywood Rolling Jr. ’91, the upcoming “Creative Activity as a Human Right” event is two months in the planning but decades in the making. Rolling, a dual professor of arts education in the College of Visual and Performing…

Campus & Community

LaunchPad Announces 2021 ’Cuse Tank Winners

Thursday, October 14, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) hosted its annual ’Cuse Tank entrepreneurial competition on Friday, Oct. 8, at Bird Library. Twenty-four student teams from various schools and colleges across campus competed in a “Shark Tank”-style business pitch in front of…

The 19th

Becoming Proactive Rather Than Reactive When It Comes To Mental Health

Sunday, October 10, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Kenneth Marfilius, visiting teaching professor in the Falk College School of Social Work, was quoted by The 19th, “I just see nothing but voids’: As combat ends, women veterans fight trauma and grief.” Marfilius discussed mental health issues among veterans and…

Arts & Culture

Panelists to Discuss Aktion T4 and Contesting the Erasure of Disability History During Virtual Event Oct. 18

Sunday, October 10, 2021, By News Staff

Three queer Jewish disabled writers and artists each discuss their work on Aktion T4, a prime crucible of disability history, during a Zoom virtual event on Monday, Oct. 18, from 3-4:15 p.m. ET. Aktion T4 was a eugenics project in…

Campus & Community

Activities for the Weekend of Oct. 7-10 and Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Thursday, October 7, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students and Families: This weekend marks another busy and exciting time on campus as we welcome parents and families for Family Weekend 2021. If you will be on campus, I hope you will partake in the many events scheduled…

Veterans

Making a Difference on the Battlefield, in the Corporate World and at Syracuse University

Wednesday, October 6, 2021, By Eileen Korey

The incoming chair of the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA) Advisory Board, Richard M. (Rich) Jones ’92, G’95, L’95, believes that President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address provides us with a call to action. He says that the…

Media, Law & Policy

In Memoriam: Joseph Strasser, ‘Forever an Important Figure in Our History’

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, By Jessica Youngman

Joseph Strasser ’53, G’58, H’20 was just 8 years old in 1940 when he and his brother escaped Nazi persecution on a Kindertransport rescue boat. Two years earlier, the Third Reich had annexed their home country, Austria. Their father, Paul,…

Campus & Community

Celebrating the Past and the Future with LGBTQ+ History Month   

Monday, September 27, 2021, By Gabrielle Lake

This October, join the campus community in celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month and the 20th Anniversary of the LGBTQ Resource Center. Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) students, faculty and staff are invited to participate…

Campus & Community

Important Reminders for Faculty

Monday, September 13, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you with reminders about two public health issues that have been the topic of questions received by the Office of Academic Affairs: Students missing class due to illness and requests for excuse notes; Masking…