Campus & Community

Chancellor Kent Syverud encouraged graduating students to remember family, friends, and faculty when looking back on college.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, delivered the Commencement address for Syracuse University’s 160th Commencement ceremony.

Journalists at NewsHouse posed this simple question: what has Syracuse University given you? The answers tell a story of personal growth. What has Syracuse University given you? from The NewsHouse on Vimeo.

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As part of SU’s growing support for first generation college students, we are looking to identify first-generation faculty and staff members on campus. We are gathering information in hopes of starting a first generation connection/mentoring-type program to help ease the…

Public finance and tax policy expert Leonard E. Burman has been named the first holder of the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Burman is currently professor of public administration and…

Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have figured out how to control multiple bacterial behaviors—potentially good news for the treatment of infectious diseases and other bacteria-associated issues, without causing drug resistance. Yan-Yeung Luk, associate professor of chemistry, has…

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Junior Luke Strauskulage has been named as a 2014-15 Goldwater Scholar. Sophomore Samantha Usman was recognized with a Goldwater Honorable Mention. Goldwater Scholars are selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of mathematics, science and engineering students…