Nine colleges from across Upstate New York saw their students and recent graduates pitch startup businesses at the Syracuse Student Sandbox Demo Day at the Syracuse Tech Garden.

The Whitman School of Management chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), a service fraternity that includes accounting, finance and information studies majors, has been selected as one of five chapters in the nation to receive the Ernst & Young LLP Diversity Award. The recognition includes a $1,000 grant. The Ernst & Young Diversity Award reflects [...]

Brianna Carrier ’12, a dual major in geography and policy studies in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as a 2011 Udall Scholar. A member of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation, she is one of only 10 Native American and Alaska Native scholars in this year’s Udall class, comprising [...]

The Syracuse University SIFE (SU-SIFE) team, based in the Whitman School of Management, placed fourth at the 2011 SIFE USA National Exposition held earlier this month in Minneapolis. More than 400 teams competed as part of the exposition. This is the second year that SU-SIFE has placed in the top four at nationals. SU-SIFE members [...]

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Vivian Yaci Yu, a junior biochemistry major in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as the University’s 2011 Beckman Scholar. The highly competitive program, funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, supports select students interested in chemistry, biochemistry and the biological and medical sciences. Beckman Scholars receive $19,300 in financial [...]

Two Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) student startup companies, Helios and Broodr.com, earned top prizes in the New York Business Plan Competition held in Albany on April 28.  Helios, a medical device company developing ultraviolet technology to sterilize equipment, won the grand prize and took first place in the health care track, walking [...]

Senior class marshals Justin Michael Cole and Katherine L. Lewinski will carry the Class of 2011 banner to open Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, and continue a longstanding tradition by representing their class on this special occasion. Cole, of Watertown, N.Y., is a policy studies, economics and political science triple major in The [...]

Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety honored 10 of its employees, along with five members of the University community, at the fourth annual DPS Awards Ceremony, held at 6 p.m. Friday, May 6, at Drumlins Country Club. The awards honored the exceptional achievements of DPS staff members throughout the 2010 calendar year. Their outstanding accomplishments [...]

Twelve graduating seniors have been named Syracuse University Scholars, which is the highest undergraduate academic honor bestowed at the University.  University Scholars represent the entire SU graduating class at the May 15 Commencement ceremony. On April 27, the scholars took part in a reception at the Chancellor’s Residence hosted by SU Chancellor and President Nancy [...]

The LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University has announced the recipients of its 2011 Foundation Awards, who were honored at the Rainbow Banquet on April 28. This year’s recipients join a prestigious group of students, alumni, faculty, staff and community adult and youth partners whose leadership and commitments have made SU and the Syracuse Community [...]

Tickets now available for reception and fashion show; $44 special pricing for young alumni and current students The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that 12 senior fashion design students will have their senior collections shown at the college’s New York City gala on Thursday, May 19, at 6 p.m. at JPMorgan [...]

Jessica Caterina, a third-year Syracuse University College of Law student, was selected to receive the 2011 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. Her work—“Glorious Bastards: The Legal and Civil Birthright of Adoptees to Access Their Medical Records in Search of Genetic Identity,” published in Volume 61, Book 1, of the Syracuse Law Review—was one of [...]

Recreational drug is focus of web-based project by Newhouse students A group of students from the Department of Newspaper and Online Journalism in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has created an interactive website dedicated to increasing awareness of an increasingly prevalent recreational drug. The drug—called “Molly”—is commonly known as MDMA, or methylenedioxymethamphetamine, [...]

In the Department of Drama’s production of “A New Brain,” a talented young composer named Gordon Schwinn struggles with a creative block. For a brief diversion, he meets a friend for lunch and promptly passes out in his pasta. Rushed to the emergency room, he discovers he has a brain condition requiring surgery. Face to [...]

Twenty-one Syracuse University seniors have been selected as the 2011 Engagement Fellows, a yearlong program supported by the Kauffman Foundation that assists with securing local employment and arranges remitted tuition for courses at SU with professional and faculty mentors. This year, the Engagement Fellows program, which launched successfully in 2009, has two application tracks—the Engagement [...]

A group of fifth-grade students at Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse recently got a crash course in sustainability while creating their original “Voices in the Wind” theater/puppetry performance, which they’ll premiere at SU Showcase on May 2. Eighteen SU students collaborated with the 68 Van Duyn fifth graders to create the upcoming larger-than-life performance. [...]

A blood drive for faculty and staff at Syracuse University is expected to take blood drive numbers to a whole new level as part of the annual “Are you up for the challenge?: Give Blood” competition between Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut. The faculty and staff drive, co-sponsored by the Division of Student [...]

Going “green” for a group of Newhouse public relations students doesn’t mean hopping on the sustainability bandwagon with some superficial eco-friendly spin just to attract publicity. For the members of Hill Communications, the Newhouse School’s student-run public relations agency, it’s all about service and giving back through green initiatives to help Hill’s clients achieve their [...]

Forty-two graduating biology and biochemistry majors will be recognized for their achievements in scholarship and research during the annual Undergraduate Research Conference and Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Department of Biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, April 28 and 29 on the first floor of the Life Sciences Complex. Posters will be [...]

Syracuse University's Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services hosts its annual Earth Day Communitywide Cleanup on Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Each year, more than 100 SU and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, faculty, staff and Syracuse-area residents gather to pick up litter in the University neighborhood. Volunteers are needed and [...]

On Saturday, April 30, 85 of Syracuse University’s prospective first-year students will present their ideas on public policies that can improve their community at the 65th annual Maxwell Citizenship Scholarship Conference, sponsored by the Public Affairs Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences. The participants have [...]

In March, a diverse group of 11 Syracuse University students—Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, undecided and hyphenated combinations thereof—traveled to London for “Many Faiths, One Humanity,” an interfaith study experience and experiment in religious pluralism. Interlaced among the experiences were opportunities to simply “be,” as the students and other participants walked through London and took [...]

“Do you want to go to Ethiopia?” The question came during a winter break phone call to Caithlin MacNeil, a second-year audiology graduate student, from a faculty member she had recently worked with on a research project. The phone call turned MacNeil’s world upside down, as she scrambled to prepare for a trip that would [...]

The Office of Student Activities presented “The 44 Stars of Excellence Gala & Celebration,” sponsored by Macy’s and Bloomingdales, on Tuesday, April 19, in the Goldstein Auditorium. Hosts Mehegan Murphy and Aaron Hudson conducted an exciting evening filled with dinner, awards and performances by First Year Players and Groovestand. In total, 18 awards were presented [...]

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has announced the winners of its annual Panasci Business Plan Competition, overseen by the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship. The competition is made possible by long-time Whitman School supporter the late Henry A. Panasci, founder of Fay’s Drugs. Sixteen teams, composed of 39 students representing majors [...]

On April 8, Professor Sotira Yiacoumi G’87, ‘92, spoke at Syracuse University about innovative methods to remove ionic pollutants from aqueous solutions. These methods, driven by the formation of an electrical double layer, are part of research aiming to address the global challenge of water scarcity. Yiacoumi’s lecture was a part of the Nunan Lecture and [...]

Senior fashion design students in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present their collections in the 24th annual Fashion Show on Thursday, April 28, at 12:30 p.m., and Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. The shows will take place in Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. [...]

Four engineering students in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University took first prize at the annual IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Micromouse Competition in Boston on March 26. Sponsored by the local chapter of IEEE, it was the first time that SU students have participated in this [...]

At Syracuse University, a large proportion of Greek life and the Greek experience is spent on philanthropy and community service. April is traditionally one of the busiest months, and this year, more than 10 charity events are under way. Over the course of the 2009-10 academic year, the Greek community raised nearly $1 million dollars [...]

Twelve Syracuse University student startups won a combined $70,000 in seed funding at the second annual Emerging Talk conference on April 1 at the AXA Towers, Syracuse.  Student companies pitched to panels of judges composed of alumni, entrepreneurs and faculty at The Tech Garden. The selected companies range from products that allow devices to be wirelessly [...]

Senior interior design students in the Department of Design in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present an exhibition of thesis work April 25-May 15 in the Design Gallery on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. The show is free and open to the public. Gallery [...]

Syracuse University will celebrate Mayfest 2011 on Friday, April 29, from 1-6 p.m. in Walnut Park, adjacent to the SU campus. This popular SU/SUNY-ESF students-only tradition is co-produced by the SU Student Association and University Union in partnership with SU and the City of Syracuse. Mayfest marks the arrival of spring and the end of [...]

Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel Choir, accompanied by University Organist Kola Owolabi, will perform French composer and organist Maurice Duruflé’s legendary “Requiem” for its annual spring concert on Sunday, April 17, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public. Free parking will be available in the Q1 parking lot [...]

On March 11, a massive earthquake initiated a tragic sequence of events in Japan that has led to more than 27,600 dead or missing, 173,200 homeless and hundreds of thousands more without adequate access to water, food or electricity. Syracuse University students are engaging the world and putting Scholarship in Action to raise awareness and provide [...]

Snowball Earth and how and why mountains move are among the topics to be presented during the 2011 CNY Earth Sciences Student Symposium, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Friday, April 15, on the Syracuse University campus. Guest speakers include well known scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, and the University of Victoria School of [...]

The Syracuse University R.A.P.E. Center will host a series of "Take Back the Night" workshops, speakers and gatherings April 11-14. The purpose of the events is to end violence in the community. Take Back the Night is sponsored by numerous student organizations. Statistics show one in four college-age women will experience a sexual assault by [...]

Students, faculty and staff at Syracuse University and University of Connecticut will compete in the annual “Are you up for the challenge?: Give Blood” competition. For the second year, the competition determines which school donates the most pints of blood to the American Red Cross. The SU vs. UConn Blood Battle, sponsored by the American [...]

Hoots and Hellmouth will perform Saturday, April 9, at Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 South Crouse Ave. The show will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5, available at the Schine Student Center Box Office or at the door. Hoots and Hellmouth see every show as an opportunity to help strengthen a sense of local community [...]

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) sent 12 students to Silicon Valley in California during the University’s spring break to visit technology startups and businesses. “I'm extremely grateful to the staff and the iSchool at Syracuse University for this trip,” says iSchool graduate student Elizabeth Ruscitto G’12. “Even if I had spent a [...]

“MFA 2011” presents the work of 17 visual artists and 20 musicians and composers concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. On view at the Syracuse University Art Galleries will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, drawing, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture and conceptual installations. [...]

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation named Syracuse University an institutional recipient of the 2011 Beckman Scholars Program. The highly competitive grant supports select students interested in chemistry, biochemistry and the biological and medical sciences. "We are honored to be chosen for this prestigious program,” says James T. Spencer, associate dean in SU’s College of [...]

University College (UC), home to Syracuse University’s English Language Institute, has 10 Japanese students from Tokai University on campus this semester. Tokai University has been sending students to the ELI for many years as part of their study abroad experience. As news of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan broke, administrators at UC focused on [...]

Students scrambling to apply for one of the limited number of SU Showcase Fellow spots can stress less now because they’ve been given a little extra time.  Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students and student organizations now have until Friday, April 8, to submit their SU Showcase Fellow applications. If [...]

Whether you’re a film major, an avid YouTube video creator or a student who is passionate about environmental issues, here’s your chance to show off your filmmaking skills in front of a campuswide audience.  Students for Tomorrow’s Environmental Policy (STEP) and Spark Contemporary Art Space are coordinating a sustainability video exhibition, which will run in [...]

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For Deryck Palmer ’78, the lessons he learned in Syracuse University classrooms, labs and libraries set him on the path to both personal and professional success. That is why the University alumnus, trustee and current SU parent has established the Palmer Senior Class Gift Challenge, which challenges seniors to make a gift to the 2011 [...]

Syracuse University and the American Cancer Society are teaming up once again to fight cancer with the 2011 SU/ESF Relay for Life, Saturday, April 9, into Sunday, April 10, at the Carrier Dome. The Relay for Life committee has been working since August to make this relay the largest one yet. The American Cancer Society [...]

New service will give students without transportation access to groceries and other items not available on campus The Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Student Association has announced student busing to Wegmans and Target from campus. Every Saturday, starting March 5, buses will run from College Place to the Target in [...]