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Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Addresses October Meeting of University Senate

Thursday, October 13, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

Syracuse University’s recent leadership transitions, the Campus Framework, diversity and inclusion, and the Climate Assessment Survey were among a handful of topics Chancellor Kent Syverud addressed during his University Senate appearance Wednesday afternoon in Maxwell Auditorium. Speaking in front of…

STEM

Duncan Brown to Be Inducted as Inaugural Brightman Endowed Professor Oct. 20

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating the appointment of Duncan Brown as the inaugural Charles Brightman Professor of Physics. A world-renowned expert in gravitational-wave astronomy and astrophysics, Brown will be honored by Syracuse on Thursday, Oct. 20, in…

STEM

Chemistry Department Award to Support Graduate Diversity

Tuesday, October 11, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Through aggressive recruitment and programming to support retention of women and minorities in the field, co-principal investigators Nancy Totah and John Chisholm, both associate professors, aim to increase diversity in chemistry at Syracuse University and in the field as a whole.

Campus & Community

University Announces New Resources, Additional Efforts Related to Changes in Fair Labor Standards Act

Monday, October 10, 2016, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

An educational campaign—including the launch of a new website—is underway to ensure that employees understand the impact of new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations. Since the regulations were announced earlier this year, the University’s leadership within schools, colleges and…

Media, Law & Policy

GM executive Tony Cervone Will Visit Newhouse Oct. 19

Monday, October 10, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School’s W2O Group Center for Social Commerce will host Tony Cervone, senior vice president of global communications at General Motors, on Oct. 19. He will present “Why Should I Care? Moving from Interest to Engagement” at 6:30 p.m….

Arts & Culture

University Union Brings Comedian Chris D’Elia to Campus

Friday, October 7, 2016, By News Staff

University Union has announced that comedian Chris D’Elia will be headlining the first Performing Arts stand-up show of the year. The show will take place on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. during Family Weekend in Goldstein Auditorium. Tickets cost…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium Invites People to Discover USC Visual History Archive Oct. 10

Thursday, October 6, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong examination of “Place” with a special visit by an audiovisual historian from the University of Southern California (USC). Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, academic relations and outreach officer at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA), will lead…

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Falcone Center Honored with NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

Thursday, October 6, 2016, By Arielle Spears

The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of Management recently received the 2016 NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, an organization that brings together entrepreneurship centers to advance excellence in entrepreneurship….

Health & Society

New Stuttering Lab Resurrects Strong SU Research Tradition

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Victoria Tumanova’s stuttering research lab in the communications sciences and disorders department resumes a long SU tradition of research on the subject. Tumanova, along with two undergraduate and two graduate students, explores the causes and persistence of stuttering in children…

Campus & Community

Update on Title IX Review

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: I am writing to you today to provide an update on the University’s Title IX review currently underway with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). As you may know, in June…