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New Future Professors Fellowship Program Seeking Applicants
The Office of Academic Affairs has announced a new program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering the professoriate. The Syracuse University Future Professors Fellowship Program seeks to award five fellowships annually to talented postdoctoral scholars in any…
Gifting Solace in Words and Images
Faced with creating classwork for an incoming cohort of first-year photography students and hampered by the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, Associate Professor Doug DuBois of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia came up…
What Drugs Cause Birth Defects? Search for Answers Turbocharges Zhen Ma’s Bioengineering Lab
Zhen Ma arrived at Syracuse University in 2016, fresh from a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, to set up his own lab. Appointed assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering and the Carol and Samuel Nappi…
University Lectures Kicks Off Spring 2021 Series, Featuring Four Dynamic Guests, on Feb. 16
The University Lectures continues its 20th season this spring with four dynamic speakers: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, on Tuesday, Feb. 16; Misty Copeland, principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater, on Tuesday, Feb. 23; Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, agent for…
6 Things to Know About the Upgraded COVID-19 Stadium Testing Center
The University conducted more than 100,000 COVID-19 tests in the fall semester. In the spring semester, the University’s Public Health Team expects to double, or even triple, that number. How will they do that? The team is expanding and optimizing…
School of Architecture Announces Spring 2021 Visiting Critics
Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Four studios will be held on campus this spring. The School of Architecture is also offering…
“President Biden’s early immigration overhaul has overlooked one growing problem: A massive court backlog.”
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) in the Newhouse School, was quoted by The Texas Tribune for the story “President Biden’s early immigration overhaul has overlooked one growing problem: A massive court backlog.” Kocher,…
GEM Program Provides Financing, Connections for Underrepresented Graduate Students in STEM
The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is a partnership between corporations, government laboratories, research institutions and universities that enables underrepresented students to pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields….
VPA Graduate Student Finds Her Confidence in Central New York
Jessica Montgomery is a graduate student pursuing dual degrees in voice performance and pedagogy in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Originally from Pompano Beach, Florida, Montgomery completed her undergraduate degree at Florida State University in 2016. She mentions…
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
The news media are powerful players in the world of government transparency and public accountability. One important tool for ensuring public accountability is through invoking transparency mandates provided by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 2020, news organizations and…