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Campus & Community

Workshops Engage Faculty on Skills and Strategies for Inclusive Teaching

Tuesday, September 11, 2018, By Carol Boll

As students returned to campus this fall, more than 300 Syracuse University faculty engaged in learning exercises of their own as participants in workshops designed to enhance self-awareness, detect and respond to unconscious bias, and strengthen their skills for more…

Campus & Community

Thursday Morning Roundtable Focuses on the Revitalization of Downtown Syracuse

Tuesday, September 11, 2018, By News Staff

Thursday Morning Roundtable (TMR) returns Thursday, Sept. 13, with guest speaker Merike Treier, executive director of the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, talking about the revitalization of downtown Syracuse and upcoming projects. The event begins at 8 a.m. at the Nancy…

Associated Press

Russia Uses Facebook to Disrupt Midterm Elections

Monday, September 10, 2018, By Essence Britt

Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Associated Press story “Using common social media tactics to subvert US elections.” Russia is working hard to disrupt the U.S midterm elections through social media outlets…

STEM

Syracuse Researchers Shine Light on Ancient Global Warming

Monday, September 10, 2018, By Rob Enslin

The impact of global warming on shallow marine life approximately 56 million years ago is the subject of a significant, new paper by researchers at Syracuse University. Linda Ivany, professor of Earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences…

STEM

Dean Liz Liddy Announces Retirement, Plans to Conclude Tenure as Dean of School of Information Studies

Friday, September 7, 2018, By News Staff

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Dean Liz Liddy has been a student, a professor, a dean (twice) and a member of the Chancellor’s executive team in her career at Syracuse University. Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, and becoming…

Campus & Community

Summer College: An Eye-Opening Experience

Thursday, September 6, 2018, By Eileen Jevis

Nazrun Chowdhury can’t believe that the Charles Hayden Foundation was willing to spend its money sponsoring “a kid from the Bronx.” The foundation provides grants that focus on helping youth develop the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in school…

STEM

Michael ’72 and Susan Thonis Establish Second Endowed Professorship of Earth Sciences

Thursday, September 6, 2018, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Tripti Bhattacharya, assistant professor of Earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and an expert in climate science, has been named the Thonis Family Professor (II). The professorship has been endowed through the generosity of Board of Trustees…

Arts & Culture

Design Intelligence Ranks School of Architecture No. 4 of Best Undergraduate Programs Nationwide

Thursday, September 6, 2018, By News Staff

Once again, the Syracuse University School of Architecture ranks among the nation’s best schools for the study of architecture. In the 2019 rankings report, compiled by Design Intelligence, the definitive ranking source for schools in architecture, landscape architecture and interiors,…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Announces 2018 Photobook Award Recipient Rose Marie Cromwell’s ‘El Libro Supremo De La Suerte’

Tuesday, September 4, 2018, By News Staff

Rose Marie Cromwell, a 2013 College of Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Transmedia, Art Photography Program M.F.A. graduate, has received the 2018 Light Work Photobook Award for her monograph, “El Libro Supremo de la Suerte,” which TIS Books and…

STEM

Engineering and Computer Science Unveils Enhanced Advising Model

Tuesday, September 4, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

This fall, the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) has launched a new advising model to enhance the undergraduate student experience. In this model, every undergraduate student in the college is provided a team of advisors to support and mentor…