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Rwandan Students in Residency for Teacher-Librarianship Training
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently welcomed four new distance students, teachers from Rwanda’s Kigali Institute of Education whose two-week summer residency is the initial step in their professional development in teacher-librarianship. It is also part of a larger…
Former Maxwell Dean Guthrie S. Birkhead Jr. Dies at 92
Guthrie S. Birkhead Jr., dean emeritus of the Maxwell School and a professor of public administration and political science for 50 years, died on July 22 in Syracuse. Birkhead served as Maxwell’s dean from 1977-88, after having taught at Maxwell…
Taking the Lead
The Setnor School of Music welcomed a group of young women this month for a unique new program. The Girls Leadership Academy for Music is helping to build up their potential and counteract the negative statistics of women in leadership roles.
SU Scientists Assist in Landmark Discovery of Rare Particle Decay
Physicists in The College of Arts and Sciences are part of a global team of scientists that has discovered a rare particle decay, giving them an indirect way to test models of new physics.
‘Boeheimian Rhapsody’ Parody Earns National Award for Student Group
The Syracuse University student production group Humor Whore won first place in the Original Short Film or Music Video category of the Association of Higher Education Campus Television Administrators (AHECTA) Student Production Awards competition for their piece “Boeheimian Rhapsody.” “Boeheimian…
Summer 2013 Evacuation Drill Schedule for Academic Administrative Buildings
The Environmental Health and Safety Services Office (EHSS) will conduct the summer 2013 evacuation drills in academic and administrative buildings from July 29 through Aug. 2. The building drills will be conducted between 9:30-11:30 a.m. or between 1:30-3:30 p.m., according…
TEDCenter Helps Retrain Individuals to Compete in Job Market
Stephanie Mayne is the human resource manager at M.S. Kennedy, a Liverpool company that has been designing and producing high-performance analog microelectronics for 40 years. She receives a flood of resumes for every job opening. It’s easy for Mayne to…
Imagining America Completes First Round in New Activists Web Series
The latest in the series “The New Activists: Students in the Community” features Afua Boahene, a doctoral student in the School of Education, and her work with the Image Initiative, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young women of color in the City of Syracuse to surmount obstacles impeding their academic success.
Hillel’s Brian Small Selected for Hillel’s Executive Training Program
Brian Small, interim executive director at Hillel at Syracuse University, is among nine professionals chosen to participate in the newest cohort of Weinberg ACCELERATE: Hillel’s Executive Training Program with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Chosen from a large…
Feel the Heat
More than a decade after a deadly dorm fire at Seton Hall, colleges and universities continue to train resident advisors about fire safety. This includes the chance to see, from a safe distance, a dorm room go up in flames.