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School of Education Joins $25M USAID Project to Support Inclusive Education in Uzbekistan

Tuesday, October 17, 2023, By Martin Walls

Syracuse University School of Education (SOE) has joined a consortium led by not-for-profit development group Creative focused on developing inclusive and equitable early grade education in Uzbekistan. SOE’s Center on Disability and Inclusion (CDI) will assist Creative’s implementation of the…

Campus & Community

Office of Diversity and Inclusion Selects 2 Staff Members for Administrative Fellowship

Tuesday, October 17, 2023, By Christine Grabowski

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) has announced that Jorge A. Castillo and Amy Messersmith have been awarded the ODI Administrative Fellowship. Earlier this year, ODI invited staff members to apply for the fellowship in an effort to further…

Campus & Community

Grants from the Engaged Humanities Network Support 11 Community-Oriented Projects

Friday, October 13, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Sports teams that succeed are those that feature athletes who work well together and bring different skills to the field. Humanities scholarship is no different. When College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement Brice Nordquist founded the Engaged…

Campus & Community

Libraries Shares Recommended Reading and Resources for LGBTQ History Month

Friday, October 13, 2023, By News Staff

LGBTQ History Month was created in 1994 by Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school history teacher. In 1995, the General Assembly of the National Education Association passed a resolution that stated a list of commemorative months, which included LGBTQ History…

Campus & Community

College of Professional Studies Announces Bachelor of Professional Studies in Interdisciplinary Studies

Thursday, October 12, 2023, By Hope Alvarez

The College of Professional Studies at Syracuse University announces its most flexible degree program, a bachelor of professional studies (B.P.S.) in interdisciplinary studies. The fully online B.P.S. in interdisciplinary studies is designed to combine knowledge and perspectives from multiple disciplines,…

STEM

5 NSF Grants Fund Syracuse University Researchers’ Work With Cosmic Explorer

Thursday, October 12, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Billions of years ago in a distant galaxy, two black holes collided sparking one of the universe’s most extreme cosmic events. The occurrence was so powerful that it bent the fabric of spacetime, sending out ripples called gravitational waves. These…

Health & Society

‘The First Scramble for Africa’: Maxwell Professor Unearths England’s First Outpost

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, By News Staff

Back in 2019, Syracuse University archaeologist Christopher DeCorse was part of a team that made an unexpected discovery during fieldwork in coastal Ghana. While excavating the ruins of the 17th-century Dutch Fort Amsterdam, the researchers from Syracuse, the University of…

Campus & Community

University’s Annual Remembrance Week Begins Oct. 15

Tuesday, October 10, 2023, By News Staff

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The 2023-24 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have planned events and activities to remember the 270 people who lost their lives…

Syracuse University Impact

‘Family Pictures Syracuse’ Brings City’s Marginalized Histories Into Focus

Sunday, October 8, 2023, By Diane Stirling

If a picture paints a thousand words, what new Syracuse community portrait will emerge to illustrate the past and present stories of individuals and families who have long been neglected in the public memory? Organizers of the community photographic project,…

Business & Economy

Whitman First Program Helps First-Generation College Students Succeed in Business School

Friday, October 6, 2023, By News Staff

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management recently announced the launch of the Whitman First Program, an initiative to support first-generation college students by helping them adapt more easily to the many facets of a business school environment. “This academic…