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fullCIRCLE Mentoring Program Opens Application for Faculty, Staff Mentors
The fullCIRCLE Mentoring Program in the Office of Multicultural Affairs welcomes its sixth cohort of mentees and peer mentors at the start of the 2017-18 academic year. It is now recruiting faculty and staff mentors to provide consistent support to…
New ELI Director Announced
David Lind has been appointed the new director of the English Language Institute at University College. Lind has a B.A. in history from Cornell University and an M.Ed in applied linguistics from Open University. For the past two years, Lind…
Girl Who Codes Helps Girls Who Code
According to the National Center for Women in Technology’s 2016 analysis, only 26 percent of professional computing occupations in the United States are held by women. This statistic is shocking in the current age of educational equality, but is on a…
Q&A: Margaret Voss on Coffee-Longevity Link
Margaret Voss is a professor of practice in Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition. She teaches courses in nutritional biochemistry, metabolism and nutrigenomics. She shared her thoughts about recently released research that seems to indicate that…
Alumnus Posthumously Named to National Mining Hall of Fame
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum (NMHFM) in Leadville, Colorado, will posthumously honor an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences. Vincent E. McKelvey ’39, a noted research geologist who directed the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 1971-77, is part of…
Undergraduate Research Gets Major Boost from New Program
Syracuse’s Center for Fellowship & Scholarship Advising (CFSA) recently chose nine undergraduate researchers to participate in the newly created Young Research Fellows Program (YRFP). Funding for this Universitywide program, including a two-year stipend, is made possible by a gift from Elliott Portnoy…
Margaret Susan Thompson
Associate Professor, History and Political ScienceUniversity Awarded $4 Million to Boost Retention of Minority Students in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4 million grant to Syracuse University to lead an effort to develop and implement strategies for augmenting the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs of…
White House Controversy: “A Protracted, Festering Mess”
Anthony D’Angelo, Professor at Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and Director of the Communications Management Program, offers some advice to the Trump White House for managing their current PR crisis. “As another week brings new White House denials of…