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Arts & Culture

Architecture Launches Three-Pronged Post-Professional Degree Program

Monday, October 26, 2015, By Elaine Wackerow

Beginning in fall 2016, students enrolled in the post-graduate master of science in architecture program will participate in a new, three-pronged “Design | Energy | Futures” research and design concentration. The three-semester, 30-credit-hour program will focus on energy and the…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School Names Inaugural Tenth Decade Faculty Scholars

Friday, October 23, 2015, By Scott Barrett

Dean James B. Steinberg has announced the creation of a new faculty award, the Maxwell School Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar, to recognize and encourage excellence in citizenship teaching, research and public engagement at the Maxwell School. Three current Maxwell School…

Health & Society

School Food Policy and Its Impact on Childhood Obesity

Friday, October 23, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Professor Amy Schwartz has for many years studied the school lives of New York City children, looking at educational inequalities and school finance. Much of the work focused on looking at test score results but more recently Schwartz wanted to look at a broader picture of student success.

STEM

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering to Hold Fall Distinguished Lecture

Friday, October 23, 2015, By News Staff

Shekhar Garde, dean of engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), will speak on “Water Near Proteins and Interfaces: A New Molecular Perspective” on Friday, Oct. 30, at 1 p.m. in 105 Link…

Health & Society

Syracuse University and Nanjing University Form Green Buildings Partnership

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Kerrie Marshall

With joint interests in sustainability of the built environment, Syracuse University and Nanjing University (NJU) of the People’s Republic of China signed a cooperative agreement on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to establish the International Center for Green Buildings and the Urban…

Campus & Community

Campuswide Survey Will Address Learning, Living, Working Environment

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Kevin Morrow

Work is under way to prepare a survey in spring 2016 of all students, faculty and staff to assess the climate at the University and elicit data that can be used in developing a more inclusive learning, living and working…

Health & Society

Celebrate Food Day 2015 with Second Annual New York Campus Crunch

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By News Staff

College students, faculty and staff across New York State are taking part in the second annual New York Campus Crunch by taking a collective bite out of apples grown on New York State farms, demonstrating support for serving locally grown…

Veterans

VeteransU App Helps Vets Adjust to Life at SU

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

Charles Preuss had spent the previous seven years of his life with his head on a swivel. As an airborne paratrooper for the U.S. Army, his life depended on an astute understanding of his surroundings and the people in them….

Media, Law & Policy

Scholar Spotlight: Justin Mattingly ’17

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Justin Mattingly is busy with dual majors in newspaper and online journalism (Newhouse) and political science (Maxwell) and minors in sport management (Falk College), history (Maxwell) and, soon, sport analytics (Falk). But that’s only part of the story. He also…

Campus & Community

University College to Bring Together Experts to Share Online Education Strategies

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Eileen Jevis

Ray Schroeder, associate vice chancellor for online learning and professor emeritus of communication at the University of Illinois at Springfield, will be part of a panel at the second annual meeting of the University Partners for Online Education Strategies (UP…