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Students Participate in High-Altitude Health Study at the Top of the World
Of all the exceptional Syracuse University Study Abroad courses, there is one that towers above the others–about 18,000 feet above. Mount Everest Base Camp Trek: The Human Response to High Altitude is a three-week, three-credit course and international research expedition…
Gawrysiak to Oversee Esports Initiatives
Joey Gawrysiak has been named executive director of the University’s new esports communications and management degree program. Gawrysiak developed one of the first esports degrees in the country at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, where he is now a professor…
National Science Foundation Renews Funding for Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program
Funding for operating the Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ULSAMP) program has been renewed, permitting Syracuse University to continue leading a seven-institution initiative to broaden educational opportunities for students from underrepresented communities to study and pursue careers in…
Comstock Avenue to Close to All Traffic Except Shuttles Following Def Leppard/Motley Crue Concert
Syracuse University’s Parking and Transportation Services (PTS) will make a temporary change to campus traffic patterns following the conclusion of the Def Leppard/Motley Crue concert at the JMA Wireless Dome on Saturday, Aug. 5. Just as they did after the…
Dimitar Gueorguiev Named Maxwell School Scholar in U.S.-China/Asia Relations
Dimitar Gueorguiev, associate professor of political science, has been named the Yang Ni and Xiaoqing Li Scholar in U.S.-China/Asia Relations for the 2023-24 academic year. Gueorguiev’s one-year appointment began July 1. He is the third Maxwell faculty member to have…
New Leadership Structure Announced at Whitman School; J. Michael Haynie to Serve as Executive Dean, Alexander McKelvie to Continue Service as Interim Dean
Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced a new leadership structure at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management—designed to advance and accelerate growth opportunities and cement the school’s position as a preeminent provider of business education. J. Michael Haynie, vice…
James Henderson Named Director, Heidi Hehnly Named Associate Director of BioInspired Institute
James H. (Jay) Henderson, professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been appointed as director of the Syracuse University BioInspired Institute, Duncan Brown, vice president for research, has announced. Henderson has served…
In Memoriam: Minnie Bruce Pratt
In a welcome note on her website, Minnie Bruce Pratt invited visitors to make themselves at home. “I hope you enjoy all the connections here to art, politics, love and life,” she wrote. The retired Syracuse University professor built a…
University Remembers Professor Emerita and Scholar Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo
Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, professor emerita of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and an internationally known scholar, teacher, activist, poet and playwright, died June 30 in Syracuse. Mũgo joined the Syracuse University community in 1993. A…
School of Architecture, SUNY ESF Faculty Awarded Funding for Research on Racial Wealth Gap
School of Architecture Associate Dean for Research Eliana Abu-Hamdi and Assistant Professor Iman Fayyad, along with Daniel Cronan, assistant professor of landscape architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), have recently been awarded a $100,000 grant…