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Blackboard Ultra Course Building Session on Wednesday, Jan. 4

Tuesday, December 20, 2022, By Eric Ferguson

Beginning with the Fall 2024 semester, all University Blackboard courses will be offered in Ultra Course View. To help instructors who use Blackboard prepare for the transition, the ITS Online Learning Services (OLS) team will host an Ultra Sprint training…

Campus & Community

Board of Trustees Announces Contract Extension for Chancellor Kent Syverud

Tuesday, December 20, 2022, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees today announced it has extended Chancellor Kent Syverud’s contract to 2026. Today’s announcement follows a review of the Chancellor’s performance, leadership and vision for the future of Syracuse University. As part of that review, the…

Media, Law & Policy

For Social Work Students, Legislative Policy Day Is an Opportunity ‘Like No Other’  

Monday, December 19, 2022, By Matt Michael

For the 23rd time, the School of Social Work at the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics hosted the James L. Stone Legislative Policy Day Oct. 28 at the Onondaga County Courthouse in downtown Syracuse. And for the 23rd…

Media, Law & Policy

Capstone Thesis Prepares History Alumna for a Journalism Career

Thursday, December 15, 2022, By Renée Gearhart Levy

While finishing her bachelor’s degree in history, Amy McKeever researched Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning writer Saul Bellow and the New York intellectual community for her capstone thesis. The assignment “was my first real exposure to an intense research project and…

Media, Law & Policy

A Gift to Create Agents of Change in Visual Storytelling

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, By Eileen Korey

When Xin Liu was awarded an Alexia grant more than 30 years ago, it accelerated her career in ways she could not have imagined as a child growing up in China. Today, with her extraordinary $2 million gift to the…

Arts & Culture

‘Active Repair’ Exhibition Launches

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, By Anya Woods

Organized around the theme of “repair,” the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and Humanities Center are excited to announce, in conjunction with the Syracuse Symposium, “Active Repair: Works from the Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA),” running now through Friday, Feb. 17,…

Campus & Community

Longtime Higher Education Leader Appointed Senior Vice President and University Secretary to the Board of Trustees

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, By News Staff

Mary George Opperman, a longtime higher education professional with a deep background in human resources, diversity and inclusion, policy development, compliance and project management, has been appointed the next senior vice president and University secretary to the Board of Trustees….

Campus & Community

‘The Hard Work of Equity’: A Conversation With Principal and Ed.D. Candidate Moshiena Faircloth

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Martin Walls

Delaware Primary School Principal Moshiena Faircloth is exactly the type of student the Syracuse University’s educational leadership program wants to recruit, says George Theoharis, professor of educational leadership and inclusive elementary/early childhood education in the School of Education. “When this…

Campus & Community

Maggie Sardino Named a 2023 Marshall Scholar

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Maggie Sardino, a senior majoring in writing and rhetoric in the College of Arts and Sciences and citizenship and civic engagement in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been named a 2023 Marshall Scholar. Founded in 1953,…

Health & Society

COVID Research Project Garners $2.2M NIH Award

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Jessica Youngman

Emily Wiemers, associate professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School, is the principal investigator for a COVID-19-related research project that is expected to receive up to $2.2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over…