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Campus & Community

Couple Loved Syracuse University and Embraced Maxwell School Mission

Thursday, April 8, 2021, By Eileen Korey

“My parents literally grew up with nothing. Their own parents were poor immigrants from Ukraine and Bessarabia—an area that is now Moldova and part of Ukraine,” says Mitch Katz ’88, of his parents, Stanley ’54, G’56 and Cecilia Katz ’55….

Campus & Community

New Accreditation for School of Education Ensures Excellence and Innovation

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, By Eileen Korey

The process of teaching is, by its nature, subject to constant change. Educators, from preschool through higher education, must stay abreast of societal issues, new research and evolving technologies to provide their students with learning pathways to success. Now, a…

Business & Economy

Syracuse Hosting Hult Prize Regional Impact Competition

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

On Friday, April 9, Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars will virtually host approximately three dozen teams from 19 countries and all five continents for the prestigious Hult Prize Regional Impact Summit competition. This year’s Hult Prize 2021 Challenge…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents Meryl Meisler: ‘Best of Times, Worst of Times’

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work presents Meryl Meisler: “Best of Times, Worst of Times,” an exhibition of her photography of her life in and around New York City in the 1970s and 1980s.  Meisler’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery…

STEM

Using Syracuse Lava to Understand Metal Worlds

Tuesday, April 6, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

In August 2022, NASA will embark on a space mission to 16 Psyche, a 140-mile diameter giant metal asteroid situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA says it will be the first mission to investigate a planetary…

STEM

Sophomore Ellen Jorgensen Named a 2021 NOAA-Hollings Scholar

Tuesday, April 6, 2021, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

In high school, Ellen Jorgensen was highly involved in the Green Club in her school and led initiatives that focused on waste reduction. She also developed education initiatives for her peers to give them a sense of responsibility regarding the…

Media, Law & Policy

‘Has Marijuana Changed or Have We?’

Tuesday, April 6, 2021, By Lily Datz

Dessa Bergen-Cico, professor of public health in the Falk College, authored an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “Has marijuana changed or have we?” Bergen-Cico is the coordinator of Falk’s addiction studies program and has expertise in addiction, drug use and mental…

Campus & Community

Faculty Can Apply Now for Assessment Leadership Institute Mini-Grant

Monday, April 5, 2021, By Matt Michael

For Rachel Razza, the timing was perfect. Razza, an associate professor at Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, was selected to participate in the Assessment Leadership Institute for Syracuse University faculty in the summer of 2019, just before she…

Arts & Culture

Curating the Bigger Picture: Evan Starling-Davis Approaches Literacy from Multiple Entry Points

Monday, April 5, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Evan Starling-Davis is a narrative artist, curator and producer. More precisely, he names himself a digital-age “griot”—a term used for traveling poets, musicians and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history derived from the African diaspora’s culture and history….

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Diploma Symbolizes Decades of Sacrifice and Determination

Monday, April 5, 2021, By Eileen Jevis

Katherine O’Neil Veley graduated from Syracuse University in 2020 with a degree in creative leadership from University College (UC). Like the thousands of other students in the Class of 2020, Veley waited with excitement and anticipation for the day she…