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The Path to Systemic Change: Equity-Focused School Leadership

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, By Matt Michael

The Path to Systemic Change: Equity-Focused School Leadership The need for systemic change has never been more evident than in this past year. But a clear path on how to get there has been much more elusive. A group of…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Students Lobby in Albany for Continued HEOP Funding

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, By Eileen Jevis

The Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) offers economically and educationally disadvantaged individuals a chance to transform their lives through education. The program provides access to a Syracuse University degree for students from New York State. University College…

Campus & Community

New Syracuse University Facts Publication Now Available

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, By News Staff

The new Syracuse University Facts publication is now available with updated information for the 2019-20 academic year. This information-packed trifold brochure includes facts and figures, general data and a timeline of the University’s “fearless firsts.” Syracuse University Facts is available…

Media, Law & Policy

Jim ’87 and Audra ’89 Weiss, W2O Group Announce Dual Gifts to the Newhouse School

Monday, March 2, 2020, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Syracuse University alumnus Jim Weiss ’87, chairman, founder and CEO of W2O Group, and his wife, alumna Audra Weiss ’89, have announced two gifts to the Newhouse School in support of the W2O Center for Social Commerce and the W2O Emerging…

Campus & Community

Syracuse’s South Side Newspaper–The Stand–to Celebrate 10 Years in Print

Monday, March 2, 2020, By News Staff

  The Stand, Syracuse’s only community newspaper to cover the city’s South Side, will celebrate 10 years in print on March 8, 2020. To mark this milestone, a selection of images from the 10th annual South Side Photo Walk, held…

Campus & Community

Zell Lecture with Magda Matache Examines Centuries of Roma Enslavement and Road to Healing

Monday, March 2, 2020, By Jennifer Russo

Romani justice scholar and activist Margareta (Magda) Matache, director of the Roma program at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, will present the School of Education’s annual Zell Lecture on Tuesday, March 3, at 6 p.m. in…

Campus & Community

2020 Orange Circle Award Winners Announced

Saturday, February 29, 2020, By John Boccacino

Transforming people’s lives through access to affordable housing, improving literacy in some of Syracuse’s most impoverished communities, using the art of step to give back, increasing public health awareness at an area high school, and providing essential medical supplies to…

Travel and Leisure

Take a Day Off, It Will Benefit Your Well-Being

Friday, February 28, 2020, By Hailey Womer

Brooks Gump, Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health at Falk College, was quoted in the Travel and Leisure story story “5 Reasons You Need to Take a Vacation, According to Science.” In the story, Gump talked about the benefits…

STEM

Math Students Finish Among Top Universities at Elite Competition

Thursday, February 27, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

A team of three undergraduate students from the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S) Department of Mathematics recently finished 58th out of 488 participating institutions in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The math contest is the preeminent mathematics competition…

Business & Economy

Shumer Wins Campuswide InVenture Prize

Thursday, February 27, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Matthew Shumer ’22, founder of Visos, the first virtual reality (VR) headset specifically designed for health care applications, has won Syracuse University’s InVenture Prize campus qualifier competition, sponsored by the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries. He received…