SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
Charles T. Driscoll, University Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, is quoted in the Associated Press, Environmental Protection Magazine, Detroit News and Syracuse.com on mercury contamination in the Great Lakes ecosystem, based on the “Great Lakes Mercury Connections” report Driscoll contributed to.
Gwinnett Daily Post (Atlanta) previewed the disability mentoring program and career expo launched by the Southeast ADA Center in Atlanta, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute.
World Interior Design Network highlighted that Ernie Davis Hall was certified LEED Gold for sustainable design and operations by the U.S. Green Building Council.
The Post-Standard reported on yesterday evening’s University Lecture by writer and humorist David Sedaris.
The Post-Standard interviewed alumna Kathrine Switzer ’68, upon her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Switzer was the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon in 1967 as an SU student.
FACULTY QUOTES
Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is quoted in the Huffington Post on the “Angry Birds” app.
Leonard Burman, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School, authored a Forbes blog post on GOP candidate Herman Cain’s tax plan.
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Syracuse University has received a $100,000 endowed scholarship from the Live Like Liam Foundation in support of the School of Education’s InclusiveU program. This meaningful gift will expand access to the University’s flagship program for students with intellectual and developmental…
Alumna Dara Drake ’23 has been named as a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholar, the first from Syracuse University. Knight-Hennessy Scholars is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program at Stanford University. Each Knight-Hennessy scholar receives up to three years of financial support…
The trajectory of the Syracuse University women’s club ice hockey team is what Hollywood makes movies about. “When I joined [in Fall 2021] there were only six other people on the team,” says Amanda Wheeler, a senior at SUNY College…
Numerous site and utility projects will be completed on campus this summer, with work undertaken by University, CenTrio and New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) contractors. These projects are related to improving electrical infrastructure, the steam distribution system and…
University Scholar Jonathan Collard de Beaufort ’25 looked back on all that the Class of 2025 has accomplished and acknowledged what it took to get to Commencement. “I’m here as one of 12 University Scholars, yet I know every single…
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