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Lights Out on Saturday: Earth Hour Draws Attention to Energy Consumption and Its Effects on the Environment
Syracuse University Sustainability Management is encouraging students, faculty, staff, and their friends and family to participate in Earth Hour on Saturday, March 30, at 8:30 p.m. Millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour…
Broadcast and Digital Journalism Professor Simon Perez Honored by BEA for Hard News Reporting
Simon Perez, associate professor of broadcast and digital journalism in the Newhouse School, is among the winners in the Broadcast Education Association (BEA)’s Festival of Media Arts. Perez won in the Faculty News Competition, Television Hard News Reporting category, for…
A Culture of Customer Service and Continuous Learning in Environmental Health and Safety
Rebecca (Becky) Ponza has spent over 25 years working at Syracuse University, starting in an entry-level technician position and rising to become director of Environmental Health and Safety Services (EHSS), part of Campus Safety and Emergency Services. EHSS is responsible…
University Lectures Hosts Silicon Valley Pioneer, LGBTQ Advocate Lynn Conway
The University Lectures series continues with Lynn Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, on Tuesday, March 26. Conway’s presentation, “An Invisible Woman: The Inside Story Behind the VLSI Revolution in Silicon Valley,”…
Next Smart Cities Seminar to Focus on Citizen Science
The fourth installment in a two-year series of working seminars and meetings that will explore the broad space of “smart cities” has been scheduled for March 27 and will examine the use of community-based science programs as effective data collection…
Building Personal Connections to Help Students ‘Get to a Good Place Academically, Socially and Emotionally’
When School of Education Senior Assistant Dean of Academic and Student Services Amie Redmond was an undergraduate, she struggled with the stress that comes with leaving home for the first time. She was fortunate to have a faculty member take…
BBI (Dis)courses Series Continues March 27 with Premiere of ‘You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born’
(Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues—a new multimedia series presented by the Burton Blatt Institute’s (BBI) Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach, in collaboration with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA)—continues on Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Watson…
Alumni Business Owner Propels ‘People-First’ Philosophy
Serial entrepreneur Ed Mitzen is part of a new wave of socially conscious business leaders When Ed Mitzen ’89 was filling out his college application some 35 years ago, he had one goal in mind—getting into medical school. That all…
John L. Johnson Lecture to Explore ‘Chicago and the Black Arts Movement,’ Today
Thabiti Lewis, an English professor at Washington State University in Vancouver, will deliver the fourth annual John L. Johnson Lecture in Syracuse’s Department of African American Studies (AAS). Lewis will address “Chicago and the Black Arts Movement” from 5-7:15 p.m….
Military-Connected Student of the Month: Stephanie Malm
When Stephanie Malm was a freshman at Minnesota State University-Mankato she was balancing two jobs and a full course load. Still, she wanted more. Her mother had put herself through school in similar circumstances while raising Malm and her brothers,…