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Nimisha Thakur Receives Newcombe Fellowship for Doctoral Research in India

Thursday, June 6, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Nimisha Thakur, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Newcombe Fellowship supports…

Campus & Community

Lender Center Postdoctoral Fellow Examines the Impact of Gentrification and Displacement in Western and Central New York

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Growing up in Rochester and attending the University of Buffalo, Lender Center for Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow J Coley saw firsthand how gentrification and displacement impacted those communities.   Now, Coley (they/them) studies how the policies and actions of local, state…

Arts & Culture

Resurrecting Song: Professor Wendy Moy’s New Book Documents Choral Music’s Resilience During COVID-19

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, By Martin Walls

In her new book, Wendy Moy, professor of music education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and School of Education, brings together first-person accounts to offer a sometimes heartbreaking, many times joyful portrait of how choral musicians weathered…

Campus & Community

Ph.D. Student Looking Ahead to Unique Postdoctoral Researcher Role

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, By Diane Stirling

When she was a special education teacher, Emilee Baker could see that the educational system was failing students with disabilities. To address that challenge, she decided to pursue doctoral studies in the School of Education, supported by a Project INCLUDE…

STEM

Doctoral Student Researchers Support Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Five mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral students are working at the forefront of research in one of the future’s booming industries: energy storage, new battery technology and creation of the supply chain and workforce support that an increasingly electric- and…

Campus & Community

Doctoral Students’ Research Leads to New Conclusions About AI and Society

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Today’s discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) tend to focus on its most visible presence, such as the chatbot ChatGPT. Yet, as two doctoral students discovered during their past year as Lender Center for Social Justice student fellows, AI exists in…

Campus & Community

Postdoctoral Scholars Play a Unique and Valuable Role at the University

Monday, February 12, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Postdoctoral scholars are unique campus community members in an uncommon space. They are continual learners, but they’re far from being students. As full-time researchers, they work in many different academic disciplines, hoping to produce new knowledge alongside faculty mentors, laboratory…

Campus & Community

Higher and Higher: L. Hazel Jack G’24 Continues to Elevate Career in Academia Through Doctoral Studies

Monday, February 12, 2024, By Jen Plummer

The path that ultimately led L. Hazel Jack G’24 to Syracuse University to pursue a doctoral degree in higher education from the School of Education was set in motion on Sept. 11, 2001. Jack was working in the airport advertising…

Arts & Culture

Film Professor Receives Creative Capital Award for Documentary Feature

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By Erica Blust

Experimental filmmaker and animator Kelly Gallagher, an associate professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Film and Media Arts, has received a 2024 Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Award in Visual Arts…

STEM

STEM Career Expert Josh Henkin to Visit Campus, Present Doctoral/Postdoctoral Workshops 

Thursday, January 11, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Nationally recognized career expert Josh Henkin will visit campus next month to offer a series of workshops for doctoral students and postdoctoral associates who are preparing to seek industry or government positions in STEM.   Henkin is founder of career coaching…