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Campus & Community

Digital Scholarship Space Open House March 9

Friday, March 3, 2017, By Christopher C. Finkle

If you can dream it, there’s another place to do it at Syracuse University If you or your students create digital content of any kind, for any purpose, there’s a new University resource to help you bring imaginings and ideas…

Campus & Community

Refugee High School Students to Participate in ‘We Are Syracuse’ Event at School of Education March 1

Tuesday, February 28, 2017, By Jennifer Russo

The third annual “We Are Syracuse” event will be hosted on Wednesday, March 1, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m in the Sharon Jacquet Education Commons, Huntington Hall, on the Syracuse University Campus. Refugee students from Nottingham High School will come…

Campus & Community

University Hosts Sixth Annual Blood Battle Challenge

Thursday, February 9, 2017, By News Staff

Syracuse University students are among the many students throughout the United States who help the Red Cross fulfill its lifesaving mission by donating blood. In fact, approximately 20 percent of the millions of blood donations made every year come from…

Campus & Community

Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Announces Spring Semester Professional Development Schedule

Friday, February 3, 2017, By J.D. Ross

The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) has released its schedule for spring semester professional development opportunities on campus. All FCTL sessions have been designed to support the entire Syracuse University faculty…

Arts & Culture

Genet Costume Collection Featured in Threads Magazine

Thursday, February 2, 2017, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection is featured in the February/March issue of Threads, a magazine for people who love to sew. The article, “A Treasure Trove of Vintage Fashion,” features an interview with…

Campus & Community

Whitman School Accounting Students Offer Free Tax Prep

Monday, January 30, 2017, By Kerri D. Howell

WhiTAX, a student-run accounting firm in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, is offering free tax preparation this tax season. The firm, operating as a chapter of the AARP Tax-Aide Foundation, includes undergraduate and graduate accounting students who provide…

STEM

The Science of Shipwrecks

Friday, January 27, 2017, By Rob Enslin

On New Year’s Eve in 1862, the USS Monitor sank in a violent storm at Cape Hatteras, off North Carolina’s windswept coast. Sixteen of her 62 sailors perished. One survivor, a surgeon named Grenville Weeks, lost three fingers and the…

Health & Society

Additional Flu Clinic to Be Held Jan. 31

Monday, January 23, 2017, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

It’s not too late to protect yourself from getting the flu this winter. The Office of Human Resources, in partnership with Health Services, will offer one more clinic for faculty, staff and students to receive a free flu vaccine. Annual…

Campus & Community

Siham Doughman Appointed University Registrar

Monday, January 23, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University has announced the appointment of Siham Doughman as the new University Registrar, following a nationwide search. She brings more than 15 years of professional and leadership experience to campus, having previously held the same position at Southern Connecticut…

Health & Society

Researcher Examines Effect of Exercise on Breast Cancer Survivors Taking Aromatase Inhibitors

Wednesday, January 18, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A researcher in the School of Education (SOE) has simple advice for breast cancer survivors struggling with the side effects of Aromatase Inhibitors (AIs): exercise. Gwendolyn Thomas, assistant professor of exercise science, is the co-author of a groundbreaking article in…