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Campus & Community

Arts and Sciences Remembers Longtime Physics Professor Kameshwar C. Wali

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) mourns the loss of Kameshwar C. Wali, Steele Professor Emeritus of Physics, who passed away Jan. 14 at the age of 94. An eminent theoretical physicist, Wali was internationally recognized for his research…

Campus & Community

Celebration Shows Important Role Students Play in Research on Campus

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, By Matt Michael

If you want to learn more about the meaningful work that’s being done at Falk College, the Falk Student Research Celebration is a great place to start. It certainly was for Sara Vasilenko, an assistant professor in the Department of…

Campus & Community

College of Law Professor Featured on ‘Frontline’ Episode Exploring Unsolved Murder of 1960s Civil Rights Leader

Monday, February 7, 2022, By Robert Conrad

College of Law Professor Paula Johnson will appear on an episode of “Frontline” entitled “American Reckoning” on Feb. 15 at 10 p.m. EDT on PBS and YouTube. The episode examines the unsolved 1960s bombing murder of NAACP and civil rights…

Campus & Community

WellsLink Hosts 18th Annual Transitions Ceremony; Welcomes Nic Stone as Keynote

Monday, February 7, 2022, By Shannon Andre

The WellsLink Leadership Program, a nationally recognized academic and leadership excellence program for first-year students of color, invites the campus community to the 18th Annual WellsLink Transitions Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 11. The ceremony is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m….

Campus & Community

CLASS Assistant Director Co-Authors International Standards for Tutor Training to Help Students Succeed Even When They Doubt Themselves

Friday, February 4, 2022, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Samantha Trumble began her career as a secondary school teacher seeking to help her students overcome their fear of the subject she loved most–mathematics. Trumble never imagined that she would draw on this experience, years later, to conquer her own…

Arts & Culture

Setnor School of Music Announces Gregg Smith Choral Composition Contest Winner

Thursday, February 3, 2022, By Erica Blust

Keane Southard, a Ph.D. candidate in composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, has been announced as winner of the 2021 Gregg Smith Choral Composition Contest in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules…

Veterans

IVMF Entrepreneurship Program V-WISE Returns In Person

Thursday, February 3, 2022, By Stephanie Salanger

Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) held its Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program in person for the first time in more than two years. Approximately 200 women veterans, spouses and partners from around…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Student Wins 2021 SOM Foundation’s Wesley Award

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, By Julie Sharkey

Xiluva Mbungela ’24 (B.Arch.), a third-year student in the School of Architecture, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Robert L. Wesley Award from the SOM Foundation. Named in honor of the first Black partner at SOM, the award…

Health & Society

Food Studies Graduate Student Seeks to ‘Bring Hope to Others’ by Improving the Food System

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, By Matt Michael

Growing up in Poughkeepsie in the Hudson River Valley region, Anna Zoodsma enjoyed foraging for berries with her father, cooking and baking, and “being creative with food.” When she started working on farms after graduating from high school, she was…

Health & Society

Exercise Science Majors Hit the Ground Running, Prepare for Careers in Physical Therapy

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, By Valerie Pietra

Future physical therapists Julia Geronimo ’24 and Ally Krevolin ’23 are jumpstarting their careers with a foundation in exercise science. As exercise science majors, they each complete over 270 hours of internships and field placements, such as shadowing, observation and…