Campus & Community Professors of Practice Bring Real-World Learning Into the Classroom

Master’s student Jessymar Torres, left, and James Crill, professor of practice in forensics, view a chart that shows the microbes that are found in a single sample. Her study of microbial genomics, which reads the DNA of microbes, takes place in Crill’s lab. (Photo by Amy Manley)

Professors of Practice Bring Real-World Learning Into the Classroom

Career experience and continuing industry connections make these faculty key to experiential inquiry at Syracuse University.
Aug. 14, 2026

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