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Welcome Back, Responding to Challenges

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Colleagues, Next Monday, Jan. 24, we begin the spring semester. This will be the fifth semester that we will be doing our work under the frustration and exhaustion that comes from enduring this seemingly never-ending pandemic. While I think…

Campus & Community

Important Reminders for Faculty

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Colleagues, I very much hope that you had an enjoyable winter break, with some time spent with loved ones and friends. The end of the fall semester wound up being a race against the omicron variant, and I know…

Health & Society

Could Social Media Provide Solution to Blood Shortage?

Tuesday, January 18, 2022, By Keith Kobland

The Red Cross is managing the worst blood shortage in more than a decade. There are a variety of reasons, but the question remains: what can be done to get more people to give? Bernard Appiah, assistant professor of public…

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In Memoriam: Charles V. Willie G’57, H’92, A Champion for Social Justice

Tuesday, January 18, 2022, By Eileen Korey

The legacy of Syracuse University alumnus Charles Vert Willie G’57, H’92 will forever be tied to that of his friend Martin Luther King Jr., making Willie’s passing a week before MLK Day 2022 especially poignant. Willie, who died on Jan….

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Students Learn Craft of Creative Writing With Stellar Faculty, New Undergraduate Degrees

Tuesday, January 18, 2022, By News Staff

In a 2019 interview, National Public Radio’s Scott Simon asked Chanelle Benz G’12 a pointed, and timely, question about her debut novel, “The Gone Dead,” in which the lead character returns to the Mississippi Delta shack her father owned in the…

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Important Vaccine Requirement Reminders for Faculty and Staff for Spring Semester

Friday, January 14, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Faculty and Staff: As we prepare for the start of the spring semester, I am writing today to remind you of the University’s vaccine requirements and how we are supporting our employees in achieving a healthy and safe environment…

Media, Law & Policy

Professor to Serve as Principal Investigator on Luce Grant to Examine Doctrine of Christian Discovery

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

For over 30 years Professor Philip Arnold has been teaching in the area of religion and colonialism. As president of the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI) and founding director of the Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center, he has collaborated with the…

Campus & Community

‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ Response to University’s Free Community COVID-19 Testing

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, By John Boccacino

With access to COVID-19 tests becoming increasingly scarce in and around Central New York, Syracuse University began offering free COVID-19 testing to the Central New York community on Jan. 4. Announced earlier this month by New York State Gov. Kathy…

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Important Information About the Spring 2022 Semester

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, By News Staff

Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: Over the past month, countless members of our campus community have been hard at work planning and preparing for our students to return to campus and to begin the spring semester. Since the beginning…

Health & Society

NSF Grant Enables Innovative Research at Falk College and College of Engineering and Computer Science to Combat Addiction, Ease Recovery

Monday, January 10, 2022, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Researchers at Syracuse University’s Falk College and College of Engineering and Computer Science are teaming up to provide hope and help to those in need.   It comes in the form of scientific study and expert knowledge with the goal of…