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Health & Society

Maxwell Professor Receives USDA Grant to Study Nutrition Assistance Programs

Monday, January 8, 2024, By News Staff

Colleen Heflin, associate dean, professor and chair of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to study the impact of remote waivers…

Campus & Community

Applications Open for 2024 ACC InVenture Campus Qualifier

Friday, January 5, 2024, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University is currently accepting applications through Jan. 25 for the 2024 campus qualifier competition for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize. Eight teams will be selected from the applicant pool to compete in the live pitch campus competition…

Media, Law & Policy

Stress Less: Newhouse Student’s Mindfulness Book for Teens Is Rooted in Family Ties

Tuesday, December 19, 2023, By Genaro Armas

The idea for a new book about mindfulness by Adam Avin ’26, a sophomore in the Newhouse School of Public Communications, is rooted in the days he spent with his great grandparents growing up in Florida. “Stress Less: Mindfulness for…

Campus & Community

Talithia Williams to Serve as Featured Speaker for 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Tuesday, December 19, 2023, By Dara Harper

Talithia Williams, Ph.D., big data expert, math professor and host of “NOVA Wonders,” will serve as featured speaker at the 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 21, in the JMA Wireless Dome. This year’s…

Business & Economy

2023 Student Entrepreneur Impact Prize Winners Announced

Monday, December 18, 2023, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) announced winners of the 2023 Impact Prize competition for social entrepreneurship held last month at Bird Library. Twenty-two student teams from Syracuse and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) pitched ideas for…

Campus & Community

How the Center for Online and Digital Learning Is Redefining Online Education

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, By Hope Alvarez

The Center for Online and Digital Learning at Syracuse University celebrated a new chapter of innovative online education at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 9. Founded in 2017 as a signature “One University” initiative within the College of Professional Studies,…

Campus & Community

And … Action! Newhouse Students Get a Taste of What It’s Like Developing a Hollywood Movie Script

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, By Genaro Armas

Students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications are getting a taste of what it’s like to take a script for a Hollywood movie from the development stage to the big screen. A new immersive learning opportunity lets television,…

Campus & Community

Lender Center D.C. Conversation Expands Partnerships, Ideas to Reduce Racial Wealth Gap

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Economic experts, federal policymakers and human services administrators joined researchers from Syracuse University and other academic institutions recently in Washington, D.C., to examine factors that contribute to a growing racial wealth gap in America. They also looked at how academic…

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel Plans Annual Pan Am 103 Memorial Service Dec. 21  

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, By News Staff

Hendricks Chapel will hold the annual Pan Am Flight 103 memorial service on Thursday, Dec. 21, at 2:03 p.m. EST. The service will begin in the chapel’s Noble Room, with attendees then processing to the Place of Remembrance. The service…

Campus & Community

Kessler Scholars Program Champions First-Generation Students

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Kessler Scholars Program supports transforming the undergraduate experience for first-generation college students through a powerful network of first-generation leaders, connected across multiple institutions throughout their college experience and beyond. Carlota Deseda-Coon, Intercultural Collective Kessler Scholars Program director,…