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Here are 10 tips from Lisa Hillenbrand ’79, P’16, director of global marketing at Procter & Gamble. She delivered the keynote address at SophoMORE Connections 2014, speaking to a capacity crowd of second-year students, alumni, faculty, and staff in Huntington Gymnasium on Friday, January 17.

Update: Forbes wrote a feature about the event. The story was also featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Syracuse Post-Standard. The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ community made history on Friday, December 13, answering a ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Day challenge that raised more than $5.1 million in gifts and matching funds from 5,683 supporters. “To our knowledge, this is […]

This Friday, December 13, the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ community will put an exclamation point on the Year of ’13 with a ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Day celebration that reaches into hearts and homes around the world. The day begins at 6 a.m. Eastern time, when WRCU-FM kicks off a full schedule of special programming. Listeners visiting wrcufm.com or tuning to […]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the latest lecture in the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ tonight in Sanford Field House. More than 5,000 students, parents, alumni, and friends attended the event, which is the highlight of Family Weekend. It was a warm welcome-back for Clinton, who first visited the university […]

Erica Chenoweth, associate professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies and associate senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, came to ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ on October 3 to deliver the fifth annual Schaehrer Memorial Lecture. The event was hosted by the university’s Peace and Conflict Studies program.

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ people aren’t shy about introducing themselves, especially when they are exchanging business cards and e-mail addresses with fellow alumni. The Office of Alumni Relations and the Center for Career Services are facilitating those connections by establishing a new series of professional networks. The first network — created by and for alumni in the finance […]

Neither distance, nor rain, nor attacking bulldogs could keep the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ community from enjoying homecoming weekend, September 19–22. The university rolled out the maroon carpet for more than 900 alumni, parents, and friends. Coordinated for the first time by ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Office of Alumni Relations, the weekend harnessed a series of events planned by departments across […]

  The Year of ’13 saw a tremendous outpouring of support for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students. This week, ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ reported that alumni, parents, and friends committed more than $48 million between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.

The Year of ’13 ain’t over until it’s over, so ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ is planning a homecoming party fit for this once-in-a-century celebration, September 19–22. On Saturday, September 21, the Raiders football team takes on the Yale Bulldogs at Andy Kerr Stadium. Before and after kickoff, the Office of Alumni Relations will partner with groups across campus […]

Since the creation of Taylor Lake in 1905, the peaceful pond at the foot of campus has made its way into ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ lore. It’s now the centerpiece of an annual fund challenge: five ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ administrators will swim Taylor Lake if 1,300 recent grads (2003–2012) make a gift to the annual fund before the end of […]