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Media, Law & Policy

Lerner Center Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, By Jessica Smith

As it marks its fifth anniversary, the Maxwell School’s Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion  is taking stock of its growth and accomplishments—an impressive list that includes collaboration and needs assessment in the local community, specific outreach and information projects…

Arts & Culture

University, SubCat Studios, High Schools Partner on Inclusive Music Recording Studio

Monday, August 1, 2016, By Jennifer Russo

This month, area high school students will have the opportunity to record professional-quality tracks with nationally-known recording artists Sophistafunk. The free, two-week summer camp, hosted at Subcat studios in downtown Syracuse’s Armory Square brings youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Students Focus on Millennial Perspective at Party Conventions

Friday, July 22, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Recent Newhouse graduates are capturing the politics, personalities and controversies at the Republican and Democratic conventions through a partnership with the Newhouse School and Skype in Media.

STEM

Kingma Hosts Group from China’s Tsinghua University

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor of Entreprenurship Bruce Kingma hosted a group of visiting scholars from China’s Tsinghua University this week, bringing them to campus as part of a tour of East Coast colleges and universities to study how entrepreneurship…

STEM

LIS Student Selected for ALA Spectrum Scholarship

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By J.D. Ross

Maria Provini, a graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has been named a recipient of the 2016-17 American Library Association’s Spectrum Scholarship. Provini is one of 61 recipients of the competitive…

Campus & Community

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald Visits University

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Maxwell Auditorium was standing room only on Wednesday for remarks by Robert A. McDonald, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The former CEO of Procter & Gamble and U.S. Army veteran discussed “Values Based Leadership,” applying the lessons…

SEIU Employees to Vote on Terms of Tentative Three-Year Agreement Reached by Syracuse University, SEIU Leaders

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By News Staff

Syracuse University, the second largest employer in Onondaga County, and representatives of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 200United, are pleased to announce they reached a tentative agreement last night on a three-year contract for 830 University employees, many…

Arts & Culture

SU Community Members Share Their Summertime Reads

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

We want to know what good reads University community members are delving into during the lazy days of summer—and offer a chance to win SU gear for their submission. Take a look below at some of the titles that are…

Arts & Culture

Baseball Hall of Fame Interns Experience Historic Halls of America’s Pastime

Tuesday, July 19, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

In the storied exhibition spaces of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, two Syracuse University students are helping share the history of America’s beloved summer sport.

STEM

Connecting Women in Geotechnical Engineering

Monday, July 18, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

Professor Shobha K. Bhatia and Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $258,870 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to better connect women faculty in geotechnical engineering. The project, a national collaborative…