It was an example of teamwork, problem solving, and engineering skills all rolled into one, as students in SummerStart at Syracuse put their knowledge to the test. The end result was a cool outcome on a hot summer day, which helped students prepare for the semester ahead. Watch the video below.
SummerStart Students Drench the Dean from Syracuse University News on Vimeo.
Roshad Meeks is a self-described “military brat.” His father served in the U.S. Army, and Meeks spent much of his childhood in Germany. He was 11 or 12 when his family returned to Columbus, a little Mississippi city of about 23,000 people where the Meeks family had lived for generations.
Roshad’s dad, almost immediately, taught his son a quiet lesson about the meaning of being home:
“If you want to learn to be a man of the community,” the father said, “you go to the barber shop.”
Roshad became a regular at Jordan’s, in a building “right next to a grocery store, across the street from the middle school.” He’d sit quietly and listen as older men talked about sports or politics. He’d watch as men of standing in the community—the mayor, the district attorney, the minister of a nearby church—settled comfortably into Bobby Jordan’s chair. Read more at SU News.
For the last four years, the Near Westside Initiative (NWSI), along with the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion at the Maxwell School, have been partnering together to improve community health outcomes in the Near Westside of Syracuse. Work has focused on community safety and the reactivation of Skiddy Park. To combat negative media attention and to get the community to take back ownership of the park, the NWSI and the Lerner Center teamed up with local grocer Paul Nojaim to hire five young adults from the neighborhood to work at Skiddy Park Monday through Friday, to engage neighborhood youth in physical activity and arts and crafts.
Originally published at SU News
This month, area high school students will have the opportunity to record professional-quality tracks with nationally-known recording artists Sophistafunk. The free, two-week summer camp, hosted at Subcat studios in downtown Syracuse’s Armory Square brings youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) such as Down Syndrome and autism spectrum disorder together with music education graduate students to collaboratively operate a recording studio. Read more about the program at SU News.
Professor Shobha K. Bhatia and Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $258,870 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to better connect women faculty in geotechnical engineering. The project, a national collaborative effort with the University of Michigan and Drexel University, focuses on professional networking to improve retention, advancement and scientific collaboration among this largely disconnected scientific community. Read the original article at SU News.
As the revolution took hold in Syria, Hani Sulieman parted ways with his family and began a dangerous drive to the airport, not knowing if he would ever see them again. The roads he traveled were haunted by snipers and bore the scars of conflict. When he arrived at the airport, his cab was stopped by an army garrison. They demanded to know his destination. He told them Egypt. As someone who was of an age to be drafted, it was far too big a risk to admit that his final destination was the United States to escape the increasingly dangerous situation and continue his electrical engineering degree at an American university. With palpable fear for himself and his family, he departed on the final flight from Aleppo International Airport. To this day, the airport has never truly reopened. Read more at SU News.
A study conducted by the Newhouse School finds that while communications professionals are dissatisfied with the level of diversity and inclusion at their organizations, few are being held accountable for developing and implementing strategies for improvement. The study was funded and released by the PRSA Foundationand the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at the University of Alabama. Read the original article at SU News.
The Onondaga Nation will honor former Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor this evening for her role in creating the Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship. The promise scholarship was announced in 2006 by Cantor as a way to strengthen the relationship between the Haudenosaunee, which includes the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora nations, and the university. Read the full article at Syracuse.com.
