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Students Assist Refugee Families in Learning English
Ten Syracuse University students helped new refugees and their children become a little more familiar with life in a new country this past semester. The students, along with other community volunteers, assisted in teaching English as a Second Langauge (ESL)…
VPA Students Take to the Sky in ‘Peter Pan’
Talented students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts‘Drama Department recently entertained thousands of people during the Syracuse Stage production of ‘Peter Pan, the Musical’. What’s it like to balance school work and a major theater production? VPA Students…
Danielle Reed ’16 Selected as Student Speaker for MLK Celebration
Danielle Reed ’16 has been named as the student speaker for the Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Celebration, which takes place at the Carrier Dome on Jan. 31. Reed is a senior from Atlanta with a double major in Spanish…
Students, People with Different Abilities Collaborate on Adaptive Design Solutions
Eyeglasses become an extension of a person and reflect the wearer’s personality. Viewed over time, they blend in. What if someone’s wheelchair or accessible device was thought of in the same way?
Grad Student Finds LIS Program Lets Him Combine Personal Passions
Three personal passions drive graduate student Taylor Davis-Van Atta’s pursuits at the University, and they triangulate the path he is carving for his future professional life through the study of librarianship at the School of Information Studies (iSchool). Davis-Van Atta,…
Newhouse Student Honored as 2015 Young Travel Photographer of the Year
Newhouse School sophomore Chase Guttman has been named 2015 Young Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) in an international competition judged by museum curators and magazine editors. This is one of series of accolades for Guttman, a photography major. He…
A Message from Chancellor Kent Syverud
December 16, 2015 Dear Parents: Over the last few days, many of you have reached out to me, the Department of Public Safety (DPS), or a member of the University’s leadership team to express your concern about the safety of…
Film Student Inspired by Human Connection
While attending college in her home country of Romania, Ioana Turcan G’17 befriended a family of cemetery caretakers. A close-knit group, they welcome her for weekend visits and holidays. They are also Roma. Turcan spent a year documenting them for her film.
iSchool Student Helps Others Understand ‘The Millennial Mindset’
“Millennials get a bad rap. Lazy, narcissistic, and entitled are adjectives commonly used to describe this new generation of tech-savvy teenagers.” For anyone over 30, those words from Aarick Knighton ’16 may ring true. That’s why Knighton, a student in…