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Notification of Orange Alert System test
Syracuse University will conduct a test of the ORANGE ALERT Campus Crisis Alert Notification System on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 10:50 a.m. It will be a full test of the personal e-mail, text message, cell voice and campus phone components…
SU in the News: Wednesday, October 17
SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE National media attention on the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) and GE partnership through the Get Skills To Work initiative to recognize, recruit and retain veterans in manufacturing, along with…
2012-13 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars will be held Oct. 26
The 2012-13 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding Syracuse University students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Oct. 26, at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The Remembrance Scholarships, among the most prestigious scholarships awarded by the…
Remembrance Scholars announce schedule for Remembrance Week 2012
Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2012 will be held on the SU campus Oct. 21-27. 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.
Dialing in on the debate
As political pundits decide which of the presidential candidates won Tuesday night’s town hall style debate, Frank Biocca already knows. “We can see immediately in the dials,” Biocca says, “when a candidate is doing badly.” He’s not referring to television…
Professor Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich remembered
Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich, professor emerita of Russian, passed away at her home on Sept. 6 at the age of 88. She was a resident of Syracuse for more than 60 years. Gorbatsevich was born near Warsaw, Poland, where she studied to become…
Faculty meeting with library review team
This fall, from Oct. 14-17, the library will undergo an external peer review. Jim Neal, dean of libraries at Columbia University, will lead the team, and will be joined by others from Dartmouth, Miami and Rice universities, plus the Coalition…
SU in the News: Monday, October 8
SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE A New York Times Sunday Review editorial on the role of affirmative action in college admission decisions notes Syracuse University’s efforts in this area and specifically names Scholarship in Action. Coverage of the “Common Ground…
Frequently Asked Questions
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8th PANEL DISCUSSIONS WITH HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA Where are the Monday panel discussions? Both panel discussions will take place in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center on the Syracuse University campus. Each session will require…
Opportunities abound to participate online in ‘Common Ground for Peace’
Community members have many opportunities to see—and participate in—the “Common Ground for Peace” events Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8 and 9, at Syracuse University involving His Holiness the Dalai Lama. While seating is at capacity for Monday’s symposium panels in…