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Staff Member Helps Families in Wake of Natural Disasters as FEMA Reservist

Tuesday, September 27, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

When disastrous flooding hit Louisiana in August, most people around the nation could only watch the events of the devastation unfold on the news. Daniel Welker was glad to be called to action to help those in need.

Campus & Community

AFSP Hosts Training for Clinicians Oct. 21

Tuesday, September 27, 2016, By News Staff

The American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP), Central New York Chapter, will host an attachment-based family therapy (ABFT) suicide prevention training for clinicians on Oct. 21, 2016 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Maplewood Suites in Liverpool, N.Y….

Campus & Community

United Way Campaign Aims to Be a ‘Game Changer’

Tuesday, September 27, 2016, By News Staff

Following the most successful United Way campaign in campus history in 2015, Peter Sala, vice president and chief campus facilities officer, and Dr. Ruth Chen, professor of practice in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, will again co-chair the…

Media, Law & Policy

‘Share of Voice’ Project Provides Glimpse Behind the Curtain of Social Media Data in Election Coverage

Tuesday, September 27, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Newhouse School assistant professor Jennifer Grygiel, working in collaboration with the School of Information Studies, is the lead on a new project that examines the use of social media data in the coverage of the 2016 presidential election, particularly the…

Media, Law & Policy

Syracuse University Dialogue to Examine the Roles of Media, Law and Politics in Syrian Conflict

Monday, September 26, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Accountability in the Syrian conflict will be the focus of a daylong event hosted by the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications next month.

Campus & Community

University Council on Diversity and Inclusion Members Announced

Monday, September 26, 2016, By News Staff

New University-wide council among 18 short-term recommendations made by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion At the recommendation of the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion, Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the creation of a new University-wide Council on…

Campus & Community

J.R. Martinez Named as Keynote Speaker at 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Monday, September 26, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Best-selling author, actor, U.S. Army veteran and motivational speaker J.R. Martinez will provide the keynote address at the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with New College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise

Monday, September 26, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise wants to ensure that each student’s experience at the college is a positive one and he’s already begun to implement that initiative.

Campus & Community

Q&A: LGBT Resource Center Director Tiffany Gray

Monday, September 26, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

After working for a year as the interim director of the University’s LGBT Resource Center, Tiffany Gray was recently named as the center’s permanent director. This cause for celebration coincides with the center’s 15th anniversary, which is being celebrated Monday,…

STEM

Meet and Greet with Courtney Young, former President of the American Library Association

Thursday, September 22, 2016, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Libraries and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host a “meet and greet” with Courtney Young, former president of the American Library Association, on Monday, Oct. 3, from 3:30- 5 p.m. in Bird Library’s Peter Graham…