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Campus & Community

Empowering Students with 20,000 COVID-19 Wellness Kits

Wednesday, August 19, 2020, By Gabrielle Lake

The Orange community has been working diligently to not only prepare the campus but also to empower students for the Fall 2020 opening. A unique pillar of this experience includes 20,000 COVID-19 Wellness Kits for both on- and off-campus students….

Campus & Community

University Lectures 20th Season Showcases Actor/Activist Wilmer Valderrama, ‘1619 Project’ Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renowned Designer Thom Filicia

Wednesday, August 19, 2020, By Kevin Morrow

The University Lectures series celebrates its 20th season this fall with three stellar speakers: actor, producer, singer and activist Wilmer Valderrama (“That ’70s Show,” “NCIS”) on Sept. 22; Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’…

Campus & Community

Professor John Burdick Remembered for His Teaching and Advocacy

Tuesday, August 18, 2020, By News Staff

Throughout his life, and particularly in his work as a cultural anthropologist, John Burdick was a strong advocate for peace, social justice and social change. As a professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and…

Campus & Community

Giving Back and Creating Opportunities: Gifting Textbooks for First-Generation Students

Tuesday, August 18, 2020, By Eileen Korey

For Shelly Lotman Fisher ’80, a Syracuse University education came with lots of textbooks…and a whole lot more. “I loved every minute of my time there. I grew both educationally and as a person,” she explains. “It really helped give…

Media Tip Sheets

University Scientists Selected to Implement COVID-19 Early Warning System in Upstate New York

Monday, August 17, 2020, By Lily Datz

The New York State Department of Health has selected the SARS-CoV-2 Early Warning Wastewater Surveillance Platform (SARS2-EWSP) to pilot a statewide coronavirus transmission early warning system, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced today. With $500,000 in state pilot funding,…

Campus & Community

Coronavirus Update 8.14.20: Putting Our Fall 2020 Plan to Action

Friday, August 14, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Members of the Syracuse University Community: The start of every new semester brings with it excitement and anticipation.  This year, those emotions are heightened and for some include anxiety associated with a return to campus life during the COVID…

STEM

A&S Researchers Lay the Groundwork to Reconstruct Global Climate through Earth’s History

Thursday, August 13, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

A key component when forecasting what the Earth’s climate might look like in the future is the ability to draw on accurate temperature records of the past. By reconstructing past latitudinal temperature gradients (the difference in average temperature between the…

Media, Law & Policy

Catherine Gerard Concludes 15 Years of Leadership at PARCC

Thursday, August 13, 2020, By News Staff

After serving as its director or co-director since 2005, Catherine Gerard has stepped down from her leadership role at the Maxwell School’s renowned Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), effective July 1, 2020. Gerard will…

Campus & Community

Law Alumnus Honors Parents Through ‘Living Legacy’ Scholarship Gift

Wednesday, August 5, 2020, By Eileen Korey

“It’s a living, growing thing.” That’s how Syracuse University College of Law alumnus Andrew Greenberg L’84 describes his most recent $1 million gift to Syracuse University to establish the Sidney M. ’49 and Winifred E. Greenberg Scholarships in honor of…

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel Virtual Conversation Series Welcomes Nationally Renowned Religious Leaders

Tuesday, August 4, 2020, By Delaney Van Wey

The Rev. Charles L. Howard, the University of Pennsylvania’s first-ever vice president for social equity and community, and Dean Jonathan Lee Walton of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, are the next guest speakers on “Matters that Matter: A…