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Scholars Announce Activities for 2014 Remembrance Week
The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.
Dance Classes Offered for People with Parkinson’s
Neuroscientists Donna Korol and Tumay Tunur in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences are partnering with the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute, the Dance Theater of Syracuse and Cynthia Stevenson, director of caregiver services at…
Taishoff Center Presents ‘Disabled and Proud: Dare to Dream’
The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University will present “Disabled and Proud: Dare to Dream,” a two-day conference event on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18 and 19. The conference, which is free to current and…
New TRAC Service Tracks Performance of Federal Court Judges
Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a data tool (http://tracfed.syr.edu/judges/interp/) that provides strategic intelligence on more than 900 federal district court judges. For the first time, the public can learn which judges handle the most civil court cases, and how…
Omega Phi Beta Focuses Education Events on Domestic Violence and the Media
Omega Phi Beta sorority is hosting several events this week, Oct. 13-19, focusing on domestic violence, the media and recent shootings nationally that have been reported in the news. Omega Phi Beta Sorority Inc. (OPBSI) is a national organization that…
Undergraduate Social Work Program Earns Top 10 Ranking from USA Today
Syracuse University’s School of Social Work in the Falk College was ranked eighth out of 332 programs studied, according to recently released results published in USA Today. The rankings are based on data from College Factual’s outcome-based higher education rankings…
Deborah A. Coquillon Memorial Award Helps Seniors ‘Pay It Forward’
When Tesia Kim ’13 began working for Teach for America, she found herself at a medical prep school in Chicago that was so poor, some of her students couldn’t afford binders and notebooks. “Two students didn’t have $25 for scrubs,”…
Pride of the Orange, Syracuse Athletics Get Boost as Alumni Establish Twirler, Lacrosse Scholarships
Lifelong Orange supporters John H. ’59 (ESF) and Janet K. (Smith) Dean ’61 (VPA), who met and later married on the Syracuse University campus, have established two new student scholarships: the Janet Kay Smith Feature Twirler Scholarship and the John…
Blackboard Faculty Day is Oct. 24
Information Technology and Services (ITS) invites all faculty to attend Syracuse University’s Blackboard Faculty Day on Oct. 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Syracuse University Sheraton. This day-long event is designed specifically for Syracuse University and SUNY…
Application Period Opens for 10th Annual Winston Fisher Seminar
It’s only the second month of the new academic year and already the College of Arts and Sciences is busily preparing for the 10th annual Winston Fisher Seminar, a weeklong immersion program timed to coincide with spring break 2015. Named…