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Syracuse University faculty and alumni are among the finalists for the 2014 CNY Book Awards, organized and presented by the Downtown Writers Center (DWC) of the YMCA Arts Branch. The annual event, which showcases regional poetry, fiction and nonfiction, returns…

University College (UC) of Syracuse University won gold at the 2014 University Continuing Education Association Marketing and Publications Awards Competition. The awards recognize the best marketing practices and promotional pieces in the field of professional, continuing and online education. UC’s…

Monday, Nov. 10, capped off Healthy Monday Syracuse and Recreation Services’ month-long walking initiative and competition, Walktober. A lunchtime celebration of the accomplishments of all Walktober participants took place in 500 Hall of Languages. Nearly 600 students, staff and faculty…

Alejandro Garcia was honored recently with the State Society on Aging of New York’s (SSANY) 2014 Advocate for Older Adults Award. The Advocate for Older Adults Award recognizes a record of planning, policy development and advocacy work. Garcia, who currently…

A faculty member whose research and writing regarding the components and characteristics of virality in the online media space is having that scholarship recognized with one of two best book awards at the annual meeting of the Association of Information Science…

During Orange Central weekend at the School of Architecture on Oct. 11, Richard S. Granoff ’84 was named the 2014 Dean’s Outstanding Alumnus. The award is given annually to an alumnus of the school who exemplifies excellence in both professional…

The Near Westside Initiative, a not-for-profit organization housed in Syracuse University’s Office of Community Engagement and Economic Development, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Mayor Richard M. Daley Legacy Award for Global Leadership in Creating Sustainable Cities from…

In the 1990s, Falk College sport management professor, Chad McEvoy was a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, working closely with William A. Sutton, a distinguished academic and practitioner recognized for his visionary leadership connecting  the sport marketing…

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that Lauren Bush Lauren, the founder and CEO of FEED Projects, is the inaugural winner of the school’s Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award, named for the late Sen. Daniel…

Gretchen Purser, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, has won the 2014 International Book Award from the California Series in Public Anthropology (University of California Press) for her manuscript “Labor On Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor.” Each year…