Work Wednesday: Dominick Valentino
Dominick Valentino considers his job at Ernie Davis Dining Center to be the most important thing in his life. “If I didn’t have a job,… Read more »
Writer archives: Jesse Nichols
Work Wednesday: Jordan West
Jordan West is working to make students feel uncomfortable. As the graduate assistant for the six-week Conversations About Race and Ethnicity sessions in the Office… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Tim Barr
Tim Barr is teaching students a meaningful way to drink. For Barr, an instructor of food studies at Syracuse University for 18 years, this includes… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Rochelle Ford
Rochelle Ford considers her work in the public relations department of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications her “ministry.” Ford joined the Newhouse faculty… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Nick Ryan
Nick Ryan struggled to find food options when he first became a vegan, so now he serves them up for others. A vegan since he… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Azra Hromadzic
While living under siege during the Bosnian War, Azra Hromadzic fell in love and spent her summers swimming in the Una waterfalls. Hromadzic said these… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Neven Lochhead
With outrageous, erotic metaphors and cases of teenage psychosexual neuroses, “EVOL” embodies Neven Lochhead’s fascination with videos not constrained by day-to-day logic. A Syracuse University instructor… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Susan Pasco
In times of crisis, Susan Pasco stays rooted in the present moment. As a therapist and director of the Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team,… Read more »
Founder of Human Rights Film Festival improves community through activism
Tula Goenka’s activism is rooted in her family. Her grandmother was a freedom fighter against the British as a part of the Quit India movement… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Michael Riley
Michael Riley identifies as queer to express both his racial identity and sexual orientation, which he said gives him greater control over the development of… Read more »
First Hackathon event aims to decrease adult illiteracy
Technology is leaving the digital world and making an impact on the community. Hackathon, a series of innovative events hosted by the Syracuse Technology Garden,… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Bonnie Shoultz
After becoming a Buddhist nun, Bonnie Shoultz shaved her head as a symbol of leaving home and renounced attachments to material things, relationships and expectations.… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Antonina DiStefano
All the way from the small town of Pozzallo, Italy, Antonina DiStefano brings “the sun,” to Syracuse. “I come from this little town on the… Read more »
Work Wednesday: Medina Aboui
Medina Aboui considers herself to be a mother of the first-year student body at Syracuse University. While Aboui is kept busy with her daily operations… Read more »
Fundraiser to support DPS officer struck by lightning
Department of Public Safety officers are hosting an event to support an injured officer, who was struck by lightning in September and is unable to… Read more »
HBC coordinator asks students not to lock bikes on ramp
Students are being asked to stop storing their bikes on access ramps to improve safety for people with disabilities on campus. Bicyclists at Syracuse University… Read more »
Candlelight vigil honors lives lost in Pan Am 103
From Hendricks Chapel, a large crowd of students walked toward the Place of Remembrance, holding small white candles. They struggled to keep the flames lit,… Read more »
Duke professor discusses morality of psychopaths
To prove to students that psychopaths were not morally responsible, a Duke University professor of practical ethics took the audience through a “four-course meal.” The… Read more »
Into the woods: ESF students have opportunity to gain hands on experience at Adirondack State Park
The six million-acre Adirondack StatePark will serve as a classroom for SUNY-ESF students participating in a residential semester, set to launch this fall. The program,… Read more »
Millennial unemployment rate rises, affects students’ career decisions
The unemployment rate for millennials rose sharply for the third month in row, according to a January jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor.… Read more »
