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Falk Students Launch Pen Pal Program With Senior Citizens

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, By Michele Barrett

Social Workers United, a graduate student organization in Falk College’s School of Social Work, recently introduced its members to a pen pal program with senior citizens. Many social work students engage with the elderly during field placements and volunteer activities…

Campus & Community

Six Syracuse University Students Receive Prestigious Critical Language Scholarship

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Six Syracuse University students have been selected as recipients of the Critical Language Scholarship, through which they will immerse themselves in intensive language study this summer. Additionally, three students were named as alternates. The recipients and the languages they will…

WNYT Albany

“Study finds pandemic having strain on some military families”

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, By Lily Datz

Rosalinda Vasquez Maury, director of applied research and analytics for the Institute for Veterans & Military Families, was interviewed by WNYT Albany for the story “Study finds pandemic having strain on some military families.” Maury, who researches social, economic, and…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Professor Featured in MoMA Exhibition

Monday, March 15, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Sekou Cooke, an assistant professor in the School of Architecture who has gained widespread recognition for his investigations into the emergent field of Hip-Hop Architecture, is one of 10 architects, designers and artists chosen to exhibit a newly commissioned work…

Campus & Community

Virtual Career and Internship Fair Welcomes All

Monday, March 15, 2021, By News Staff

Students are invited to register for the annual All Majors Career and Internship Fair on Thursday, March 25, from 3 to 7 p.m. ET. Within a virtual setting, students will be provided the same level of support and guidance with…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Cold Read Festival Goes Virtual in 2021

Monday, March 15, 2021, By Joanna Penalva

All plays were once new plays. That’s the idea behind Syracuse Stage’s Cold Read Festival of New Plays. Now in its fourth season, the Cold Read Festival has seven different events featuring some of the freshest voices writing for theater…

STEM

Giving Back to Honor a Great Mentor

Monday, March 15, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

Peter Robison G’78 (Ph.D.) remembers joining professor emeritus of biology Richard Levy’s lab in 1974 during a particularly tumultuous time in our nation’s history. Richard Nixon had resigned from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal and students were feeling…

Veterans

COVID One Year Later: Insights from the Military-Connected Community

Thursday, March 11, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

By Misty Stutsman Fox and Rosalinda Vasquez Maury, researchers with Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) The changes our nation has experienced, both at home and abroad, are considerable and hastening. Economic conditions are uncertain, the federal…

CNBC

“These college students are working as contract tracers to stop the spread of Covid on campus”

Thursday, March 11, 2021, By Lily Datz

Dr. Mike Haynie, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation and founder and executive director of the Institute for Veterans & Military Families (IVMF), was quoted in the CNBC story “These college students are working as contract tracers to stop…

The New York Times

“In Australia, Hollywood Stars Have Found an Escape From the Virus. Who’s Jealous?”

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, By Lily Datz

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of television, radio and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was interviewed by The New York Times for the story “In Australia, Hollywood Stars Have Found…