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Campus & Community

Peter Cronin Named Vice President for Development

Thursday, April 6, 2017, By News Staff

A highly accomplished institutional advancement officer with more than 30 years of experience in higher education has been named Syracuse University’s new vice president for development. Peter Cronin, who has spent the last three decades conceptualizing, leading and managing comprehensive…

Arts & Culture

Libraries’ Spring Exhibition ‘You Are Here’ Opens April 20

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries’ spring exhibition, “You Are Here: Expanding the Concept of Place,” opens with a reception on April 20 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the gallery on the sixth floor of Bird Library. Through a selection of rare books, pamphlets,…

STEM

Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s M.S. in Finance Program Achieves STEM Designation

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s M.S. in Finance program has been designated as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program, effective May 15, 2017. This marks the second graduate program at the Whitman School with the STEM…

Arts & Culture

Phonologist Documents Tonology, Syntax of Distinctive Kenyan Languages With NSF Grant

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Last year, Christopher Green, assistant professor of linguistics, spent a month in Kenya with colleagues at Kenyatta University and members of the Luyia ethnic group to continue to explore and better understand the richness of their languages. Green spent many…

Arts & Culture

VPA MFA Candidates’ Exhibition ‘Let’s Be Dragons’ Spans Five Venues in Syracuse, NYC

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Erica Blust

“Let’s Be Dragons,” the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will open in five different venues in Syracuse and New York City in April. The exhibition features work by 29 M.F.A….

Health & Society

Falk Sport Venue and Event Management Graduate Students Host Charity Golf Tournament to Benefit Vera House May 8

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By News Staff

Graduate students in Falk College’s Department of Sport Management are hosting the Second Annual Sport Venue and Event Management Charity Golf Classic May 8 at Drumlins Country Club East Course beginning at noon. Monies raised will support Vera House’s comprehensive…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School Announces Finalists in 2017 Mirror Awards Competition

Tuesday, April 4, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School today announced the finalists in the 2017 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony June 13 in New York City. The finalists, selected by a group of…

STEM

Semaan Secures NSF Grant to Address Veteran Transitions with Technology

Tuesday, April 4, 2017, By J.D. Ross

What happens to people after they experience a disruptive event in their lives—a job loss, physical or emotional trauma, a natural disaster, a disease diagnosis, returning from war or homelessness? These life changes, or invisible crises, can be debilitating on…

Campus & Community

Common and Diverse Ground Interfaith Dinner Dialogue Series Continues April 4

Monday, April 3, 2017, By News Staff

The University’s spring 2017 Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the “Hidden” Things that Divide Us, continues Tuesday, April 4, with “Remembering/Honoring/Responding to Pulse, Orlando.” The dialogue, which is in solidarity with the LGBT…

Business & Economy

Alumnus Honored for Entrepreneurship in Making Bagels an American Staple, Philanthropy

Monday, April 3, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Marvin Lender ’63 has many wonderful memories about his family’s bagel bakery while growing up. Lender remembers the times he would stand at a bench making bagels by hand—a skill that could take up to a year to learn—in the…