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Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences Departments Come Together on Diversity and Engagement Initiatives

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, By News Staff

In 1948, Professor James Hope Birnie became Syracuse University’s first African American faculty member in biology, teaching here until 1951. He was also one of its first biology faculty members to be supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)….

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COVID-19 Update: Public Health Protocols for Summer 2022

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: With the 2021-22 academic year officially behind us, I want to again express my gratitude for the cooperation and flexibility of our students, faculty and staff, who committed to the public health safeguards necessary…

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5 New Members Elected to University’s Board of Trustees

Monday, May 16, 2022, By News Staff

Syracuse University has announced the election of five new members to its Board of Trustees, all with extraordinary backgrounds in business and philanthropy. Individually and collectively, these new trustees have already enhanced the student experience and advanced the University’s mission…

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Student Representatives to the Board of Trustees Have Been Named

Monday, May 16, 2022, By News Staff

Alexis Telga L’23, a third-year law student in the College of Law, has been named as the law student representative to the Board of Trustees, and Dylan Blaine France ’24, a junior majoring in finance in the Whitman School of…

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‘You Have the Power to Have a Profound Impact’: ABC News’ David Muir Addresses Syracuse University’s Class of 2022 (Video)

Monday, May 16, 2022, By John Boccacino

As the Syracuse University community came together to celebrate the Class of 2022, it was only fitting that a Central New York native who has reported on some of the most powerful and consequential stories of our time came home…

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Karin Ruhlandt to Conclude Tenure as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Lois Agnew to Serve as Interim Dean

Monday, May 16, 2022, By News Staff

Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and Distinguished Professor of chemistry, has announced that she plans to step down as dean later this year and return to the chemistry faculty following a well-earned research leave….

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Eleanor Maine Receives Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching

Monday, May 16, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

Eleanor Maine, professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is the 2022 recipient of the William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. A&S Dean Karin Ruhlandt formally conferred the prize on her at the…

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Black Hole Image Shows Einstein Was Right, Once Again

Thursday, May 12, 2022, By Daryl Lovell

Today a team of astronomers announced they successfully captured the first direct image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Duncan Brown is the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at Syracuse University’s College of…

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Section of South Crouse Avenue to Close Temporarily for Utility Project

Thursday, May 12, 2022, By News Staff

A utility project, with sidewalk upgrades, in the area of South Crouse Avenue, University Place and Irving Avenue will begin May 16 and will require the closure of South Crouse Avenue between Waverly Avenue and University Place. The closure is…

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4 Years Unlike Anything Else: Reflecting on Life on the Syracuse University Campus

Thursday, May 12, 2022, By John Boccacino

When the members of the Class of 2022 walked onto the Syracuse University campus in the fall of 2018, none of them could predict the unprecedented journey that awaited them over the next four years. An unknown, fast-spreading global health…