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Arts & Culture

Stephen Kuusisto Receives 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry

Friday, April 9, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has announced that Stephen Kuusisto, University Professor in the School of Education and director of interdisciplinary programs and outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute in the College of Law, has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim…

Campus & Community

Alumnus and Trustee Marshall M. Gelfand ’50 Remembered

Friday, April 9, 2021, By News Staff

In 2013, Variety magazine honored Syracuse University alumnus and trustee Marshall M. Gelfand ’50 with its Business Managers Elite Award and an article titled “Veteran Business Manager Balances Work and Philanthropy.” Gelfand, who died April 1 at the age of…

Campus & Community

Couple Loved Syracuse University and Embraced Maxwell School Mission

Thursday, April 8, 2021, By Eileen Korey

“My parents literally grew up with nothing. Their own parents were poor immigrants from Ukraine and Bessarabia—an area that is now Moldova and part of Ukraine,” says Mitch Katz ’88, of his parents, Stanley ’54, G’56 and Cecilia Katz ’55….

Campus & Community

New Accreditation for School of Education Ensures Excellence and Innovation

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, By Eileen Korey

The process of teaching is, by its nature, subject to constant change. Educators, from preschool through higher education, must stay abreast of societal issues, new research and evolving technologies to provide their students with learning pathways to success. Now, a…

Campus & Community

University Honors Third Cohort of Success Scholars

Tuesday, April 6, 2021, By Shannon Andre

More than 900 first-year and transfer students earned the Invest in Success Scholarship this year, an award recognizing first semester high-achieving students. Along with the merit-based, renewable scholarship award, the Success Scholars were honored at socially distanced receptions where they…

Media, Law & Policy

‘Has Marijuana Changed or Have We?’

Tuesday, April 6, 2021, By Lily Datz

Dessa Bergen-Cico, professor of public health in the Falk College, authored an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “Has marijuana changed or have we?” Bergen-Cico is the coordinator of Falk’s addiction studies program and has expertise in addiction, drug use and mental…

STEM

Talking Trash With Laura Markley, Waste and Plastics Researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Sunday, April 4, 2021, By Jen Plummer

 Laura Markley is a scientist and a communicator who has been weaving these two skillsets together throughout her academic career. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), Markley…

Campus & Community

Update on Vaccine Availability at Barnes Center and How to Submit Vaccination Records

Thursday, April 1, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students and Families: As COVID-19 vaccine supply increases, the Barnes Center at The Arch is taking steps to prepare should we receive vaccine from New York State. To help us mobilize quickly as we await vaccine from New York…

Media Tip Sheets

Virginia Is First Southern State to Adopt Its Own Voting Rights Act

Thursday, April 1, 2021, By News Staff

According to Sara Swann at The Fulcrum, “Virginia is the first Southern state to adopt its own voting rights act: Almost eight years after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Virginia has…

Campus & Community

Audio Arts Student Searches for Second Chances

Thursday, April 1, 2021, By Amy Sloane-Garris

Allie Westbrook, an audio arts student, talks about her transition from undergraduate to graduate studies amid a year unlike any other. She graduated with a B.M. in sound recording technology in May 2020 and was a Remembrance Scholar. Like many…