Thomas Amidon was recently named the 2015 College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York. Read more »
The 13th Annual Panasci Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises program in the Whitman School, allows students to pitch their fully developed business plans to judges well-versed in the art of starting a company and selling products. Read more »
AJ Abell and Jonathan Dawson hosted a 15 minute-long meeting in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to discuss their campaign progress and platform and hear back from the Syracuse University community. Read more »
Impact Week has been absent from the Syracuse University campus for the past couple semesters, but this year Student Association Director of Student Engagement Alejandra Avina is bringing it back in a different way. Read more »
A Utah-based development company has submitted its plan to construct a student-housing complex in the Outer Comstock neighborhood in Syracuse. Read more »
Here is a round-up of criminal activity that occurred near campus during the past week, according to Syracuse police bulletins Read more »
With four of the five candidates for this year’s Student Association presidential elections being write-ins, SA’s Board of Elections and Membership has revised the guidelines for acceptable votes. Read more »
On Thursday around noon, members of THE General Body and the Graduate Student Organization held a rally in front of Hendricks Chapel regarding grievances about the recent health care plan changes. Read more »
Karam Jamal Al Hamad is wanted by the Syrian government for being outspoken against the Bashar al-Assad regime and is currently participating in the Leaders for Democracy Fellowship at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Read more »
Sarah Wick, a sports nutritionist, spoke Wednesday in the Life Sciences Complex, room 001 about healthy eating. Read more »
Syracuse Housing Authority will receive almost $2 million from the federal government for the Work to Independence program. Read more »
The Graduate Student Organization passed a resolution Wednesday night in favor of exploring the process of unionization. Read more »
Launched in January, Chat and Dine encourages engagement between students and faculty or staff members in a setting that’s not necessarily academic. SA President Boris Gresely said he discovered the idea from the University of Rochester, which is considered a peer institution of SU. Read more »
Duke University students and faculty arranged protests last week following an incident at the school in which a noose was hung from a tree overnight, which then caused an outrage on campus by the morning. Read more »
Fraternity and Sorority Affairs
Sara Eckhardt founded the “I Am Enough” movement at Syracuse University to help other students realize that there is power and strength in accepting who you are, just as you are. Read more »
The debate, which is sponsored by the NPHC, will take place at 8:30 p.m. in Lyman Hall, room 132. Doors for “The Great Debate” open at 8 p.m. It is unclear which of the five members running for SA president will take part in the debate. Read more »
The Women in Science and Engineering program at Syracuse University aims to increase the recruitment and retention of women faculty in sciences, mathematics, engineering and computer sciences. Read more »
Safet Mesanovic and Gener Romeu Oliva said they believe SA is currently lacking representatives from a variety of majors and functioning as too much of a “closed” organization. Read more »
A draft of the Fast Forward Initiative’s Academic Strategic Plan was released to the public for comment on April 2 in a campus-wide email. The open comment period will end on April 10. Read more »
Donald Siegel, chair and professor in the Earth sciences department, said his research group has found “no statistically significant relationship between dissolved methane concentration in groundwater from domestic water wells and proximity to pre-existing oil or gas wells.” Read more »
Syracuse’s Onondaga Lake is finally considered clean enough to be usable, thanks to a mass restoration project that has lasted three years. Read more »
The Student Association will host Impact Week to engage SU students on campus and in the community. Impact Week will take place from April 13 through April 19, culminating with The Cuse Conference, the first ever. Read more »
About two weeks after canceling the Paris Noir program due to low enrollment, the College of Arts and Sciences and SU Abroad announced the reopening of the program’s application period on Tuesday. Read more »
The press conference took place Tuesday in 500 Hall of Languages, and group members voiced concerns with campus issues that they said they feel still haven’t been adequately addressed. About 50 people were in attendance. Read more »
