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College of Law Adds 4 New Board of Advisors Members

Thursday, February 17, 2022, By Robert Conrad

Syracuse University College of Law has appointed four new Board of Advisors members: Peter Carmen L’91, Prashanth (PJ) Jayachandran G’98, L’98, Benita Miller L’96 and David Wales L’95. These appointments reflect the heft of the College of Law’s alumni and…

STEM

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Receives 2021 Shannon-Nyquist Technical Achievement Award

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, By Alex Dunbar

Pramod K. Varshney, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2021 Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for outstanding contributions in the fields of distributed inference…

Campus & Community

Nominations Sought for One University Assessment Awards

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, By News Staff

Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment (IEA) announce a call for nominations for Syracuse University’s One University Assessment Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, March 11. [Update March 18, 2022: The call for nominations has been extended through…

Campus & Community

Libraries Participating in Open Access Pilot

Monday, February 14, 2022, By Cristina Hatem

On Feb. 3, Syracuse University Libraries became a participating institution in the open access pilot agreement between NERL and Elsevier. Syracuse University Libraries is one of 13 NERL libraries, a consortium of America’s leading research institutions, participating in a novel…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Ranked Among the Nation’s Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report

Monday, February 14, 2022, By Hope Alvarez

In only its second year of eligibility, Syracuse University has ranked as one of the top universities in the nation when it comes to online undergraduate education, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Online Programs rankings. Syracuse…

Arts & Culture

Professor Awarded Honorary Doctorate for Contributions to Linguistic Theory, Turkish Linguistics

Sunday, February 13, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL), was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cyprus for her contributions to theoretical and Turkish linguistics. The honorary doctorate is the highest honor conferred by the…

Health & Society

Falk Professor Roopnarine Leads International Discussion on Benefit of Childhood Play

Friday, February 11, 2022, By Matt Michael

Born into poverty in Guyana, a country roughly the size of Idaho in the northeastern corner of South America, Jaipaul Roopnarine had to contend with hunger, neighborhood violence and other adverse early childhood experiences. As a way of escaping this…

Campus & Community

Marcelle Haddix Appointed Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives

Friday, February 11, 2022, By News Staff

Vice Chancellor and Provost Gretchen Ritter announced today the appointment of Marcelle Haddix, Distinguished Dean’s Professor of Literacy, Race and Justice in reading and language arts, to the position of associate provost for strategic initiatives. The Executive Committee of the…

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Undergraduate Program Achieves Highest Rankings Yet

Thursday, February 10, 2022, By Dawn McWilliams

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University is now ranked No. 34 in the nation for its undergraduate program by Poets & Quants. This is the highest ranking the Whitman School has received from Poets & Quants,…

Media Tip Sheets

Valentine’s Day Reminder: Your Friendships Are Important Too

Thursday, February 10, 2022, By Daryl Lovell

With Valentine’s Day upon us, it’s easy to get caught up in the mass-marketed romance messages that are everywhere this time of the year. Abigail Caselli is a social psychology doctoral candidate at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences….