The Syracuse-metro area unemployment rate went down to 4.5 percent last month compared to 5 percent last year, according to a Department of Labor report published Sept. 20. Read more »
A new student apartment will be constructed on East Brighton Avenue and Thurber Street in response to increased enrollment among SU students. Read more »
Two national security experts weigh in on increased airport security after Sept. 11 attacks. Read more »
In August 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development denied Syracuse’s application for $2.9 million in grant money to reinstate their lead paint program. This ongoing problem is being debated amongst government officials, but no solution has been provided for the citizens struggling with lead paint in their homes. Read more »
Syracuse University professor, Eric Kingson, reflects on experience in running for office as New York State’s representative for the 24th congressional district. Kingson said it was a rewarding experience, but he does not plan to run for a political office again. Read more »
Students in third through eighth grades in the Syracuse City School District have improved their standardized test scores in both math and English, but the scores still lag behind statewide scores. Read more »
Oakland University students created an "Ask a Muslim" panel to help combat Islamophobia and Muslim stereotypes. Read more »
Two students at Georgetown University have made it their agenda to create a central hub for all things related to urban culture with their website, Nous Culture. Read more »
The course is online, so the students can learn the subject matter from the comfort of their own beds. Read more »
AutoDietary, a necklace-like device, measures the caloric intake of users. Read more »
Two University of Alabama students became friends through a shared love for comic books. After creating their own comic books, the students started to sell them across various comic book stores in the United States. Read more »
The University of Iowa is striving to address challenges by hiring professors from diverse disciplines to work together in team-based atmospheres. Read more »
Students at Santa Clara University in California have been participating in a tiny house building competition for almost two years. The final presentations will take place in October. Read more »
Two students, one enrolled at Boston College and one at University of Texas at Austin, have started an all-female T-shirt company focused on One Direction and feminism. Read more »
A non-profit based at the University of Vermont provides textbooks free of charge to students at the university. Read more »
Alumni and students from Maryville College are participating in a tattoo project that encourages people to get inked with phrases from the school's alma mater. Read more »
Students and professors at Oregon State University are studying bones of an extinct mammoth that were discovered during an expansion project of the Valley Football Center. Read more »
Four sophomore students at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering made a machine that allows any image designed on computer software to be made into a pancake. Read more »
Several universities across the country have banned the use of hoverboards on campus following a Dec. 16 statement from United States Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Elliot Kaye regarding the tendency of hoverboards to catch fire. Read more »
New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander recalls how reading poetry to boys at a juvenile detention facility illustrates the power of language to inspire the marginalized. Read more »
College of Engineering and Computer Science professor David Chandler has joined a team of researchers that will look into how to build infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather. Read more »
This semester's University Lecture Series will feature four lectures: pianist Leon Fleisher, author Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times columnists Charles Blow and Ross Douthat and environmental journalist Naomi Klein. Read more »
