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5 Honorary Degrees to Be Presented at 2024 Commencement

Friday, April 19, 2024, By News Staff

An award-winning journalist, a hall of fame basketball coach, a nationally recognized library conservationist, a global financial executive and a renowned computer scientist will be recognized with honorary degrees from Syracuse University at the 2024 Commencement on Sunday, May 12,…

Campus & Community

Graduate School Summer Funding Competition Awards Announced

Monday, April 15, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Seventy-one scholars are the recipients of dissertation and pre-dissertation fellowship awards through The Graduate School’s Summer Funding Competition. The $4,500 awards are given annually to a select group of outstanding doctoral students to support progress to degree and dissertation completion….

Campus & Community

Annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition Provides Research Capsule Talks

Monday, April 15, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Creating an elevator pitch from information gleaned through years of specialized research takes clear thinking, precise wording and a flair for presenting to an audience. Just ask the participants of this year’s Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Ten graduate and doctoral…

Syracuse University Impact

InclusiveU Program Celebrates 10 Years of Offering a Fully Inclusive College Experience to Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

For the past 10 years, InclusiveU in Syracuse University’s School of Education (SOE) has given students with intellectual and developmental disabilities a college experience in a fully inclusive setting. On Thursday, April 4, family, friends and supporters of the program…

Veterans

Soaring Over Barriers: Cindy Boyd G’04 Reflects on Navigating an Aeronautical Career

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, By Charlie Poag

Despite the Hollywood portrayal of combat aviation as a glamorous and glitzy environment, military aviators operate in highly perilous conditions, facing challenges that many civilian pilots wouldn’t dare encounter. Nevertheless, the inherent risks do not deter numerous young men and…

Campus & Community

Internship Funding Award Expands Student Opportunities

Friday, March 15, 2024, By News Staff

Internships are a great opportunity for students looking to learn professional skills while getting a jumpstart on the search for post-graduation jobs. The Internship Funding Award empowers students to achieve career goals by creating opportunities to fund their credit, travel…

Campus & Community

Crucial Influence Course for Leaders/Supervisors Begins March 27

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, By News Staff

The Office of Human Resources is offering a series of Crucial Influence workshops to help supervisors build skills in leading behavior change within their team or organization. Through this program, supervisors, managers and leaders will learn how to influence other’s…

Campus & Community

ECS Alumni Establish Scholarship to Honor Professor C.Y. Roger Chen

Monday, March 4, 2024, By Kwami Maranga

For nearly 37 years, professor C.Y. Roger Chen has been an invaluable guide for many students on their academic and professional journeys. Teaching electrical engineering and computer science courses in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at Syracuse…

STEM

Successful Computer Innovator Kwang G. Tan G’73 Gives Back to Support Students, Faculty, Campus Initiatives

Monday, March 4, 2024, By John Boccacino

Table tennis is a game of both force and angles. The goal is to strike the ball past your opponent by taking advantage of the observable angles and opportunities. Devising a plan of attack for problems known and unknown. Predicting…

Veterans

Generosity of Soldiers Inspired Benetta Dousuah G’25 to Enlist in the Army

Monday, February 26, 2024, By Charlie Poag

U.S. Army veteran Benetta Dousuah G’25, currently a graduate student in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, vividly recalls her family’s escape from Liberia during the back-to-back civil wars that ravaged the nation between 1989 and 2003. Initially…