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First-Generation College Celebration on Nov. 8

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, By Shannon Andre

The Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs is participating in the first-ever nationwide First-Generation College Celebration in partnership with NASPA and the Council for Opportunity in Education.  The celebration is Wednesday, Nov. 8. All faculty, staff and students identifying as…

Campus & Community

Red Cross Blood Drive, Nov. 8

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, By News Staff

The Syracuse University American Red Cross Club and the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School will host a blood drive on Wednesday, Nov. 8, beginning at 10 a.m. in 304ABC Schine Student Center. To set up an appointment…

Health & Society

Trans Day of Remembrance Featuring Jennicet Gutiérrez on Nov. 8

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, By Joyce LaLonde

The LGBT Resource Center, within the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, presents Transgender Day of Remembrance. Transgender Day of Remembrance is nationally observed on Nov. 20 and honors those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. To…

STEM

Strong Showing for Orange Hacker’s Association at National Cybersecurity Competitions

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

The students in the Orange Hacker’s Association are “white hat hackers”—hackers who test cybersecurity programs not to break them, but to help make them safer. “People think of it as a very bad thing, but actually a hacker is just someone who…

Health & Society

Registration Open for Mindfulness Webinar for Faculty and Staff

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, By News Staff

It’s a busy world. Do you find yourself multitasking in nearly everything you do? You fold the laundry while on the phone and keeping an eye on the kids, or plan your day in your head while listening to the…

Campus & Community

Historic Appointment of Interim University Mace Bearers, Effort to Identify Next Mace Bearer Underway

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud appointed two student leaders—Student Association President James Franco and Graduate Student Organization President Jack Wilson—interim University mace bearers. The interim appointment marks the first time a student—and in this case, two students—has been bestowed the honor. “The…

Arts & Culture

Design Students’ Project Confronts Social and Political Problems, Solutions

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, By Erica Blust

Through the process of design thinking, junior communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design are confronting some of the social and political problems of our time through the project “CONFRONTED.EDU/an education in social…

Campus & Community

Reimagining Bird Library: Presentations by Architecture Students on Potential Future of Bird Library

Friday, November 3, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Students from School of Architecture Professor Randall Korman’s spring 2017 “Integrated Design Studio” (ARC 409) class will present their ideas for a reimagined and redesigned Bird Library at a presentation on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 4 – 5:30 p.m. in…

Health & Society

Women’s Leadership Initiative Hosts Fourth Elect Her – Campus Women Win

Thursday, November 2, 2017, By Joyce LaLonde

Women hold only a small fraction of elected offices in the United States. To help change that, the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), run out of the Office of Student Activities in the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, in…

Campus & Community

New Dean Sees Chapel’s Work as Sanctuary from World’s Chaos

Thursday, November 2, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

About two weeks after starting his new role as dean of Hendricks Chapel, the Rev. Brian E. Konkol was walking to a meeting. He ran into Leah Fein, Hillel’s campus rabbi. The two started walking together; about a minute later…