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Message from the Chancellor in Support of International Students

Thursday, July 9, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a new directive that could have a profoundly negative impact on international students. I write to you today to share that Syracuse University is joining an…

Health & Society

Muslim Chaplaincy at Hendricks Chapel Publishes Report on COVID-19 Impact on Student Life

Wednesday, July 8, 2020, By Delaney Van Wey

A new report published by Muslim Student Life at Syracuse University, a chaplaincy within Hendricks Chapel, is increasing awareness about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Muslim college students in the United States. In collaboration with the Center for…

Health & Society

Ph.D. Candidate Receives Dissertation Fellowship to Analyze Contemporary Buddhist Charities in Southeast Asia

Wednesday, July 8, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Sara Swenson, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Newcombe Fellowship supports…

Campus & Community

Impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Policy on International Students

Wednesday, July 8, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) provided guidance in advance of publication of a final rule that will affect the method of instruction our international students can engage in during the fall 2020…

Health & Society

‘Avoid the Coronavirus Blame Game’

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By News Staff

Rebecca Ortiz is an assistant professor of advertising in the Newhouse School. Her primary areas of expertise are health communication research and campaign development and evaluation. In many states across the United States recently, the coronavirus positivity rate for people…

STEM

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Student Awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Zheng Xiong, a biomedical and chemical engineering Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions…

STEM

A&S Researchers Study the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Released at the East African Rift System

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Calculating Earth’s carbon budget is vitally important in the effort to track global warming and climate change. The carbon budget is the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions permitted over a period of time to keep the Earth’s atmosphere…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud, University Leaders Announce Changes and Updates to Key Administrative, Academic Units

Monday, July 6, 2020, By News Staff

As Syracuse University continues to advance its strategic priorities, Chancellor Kent Syverud and other University leaders today announced changes and updates to key academic and administrative units. They include University College, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Department of Athletics…

Campus & Community

Staff, Faculty Members, Along with International Students and Families, Support Essential Workers through Fundraising Effort

Wednesday, July 1, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

When a group of local Chinese American community members, including University faculty and staff, heard about the devastating impact of COVID-19 on China’s people and its health care system earlier this year, they recognized what could happen in the United…

Campus & Community

Coronavirus Update 6.25.20: New York Travel Restrictions, Fall 2020 Website, Subcommittee Reports

Thursday, June 25, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: Summer is officially here, and our preparations to welcome thousands of students, faculty and staff back to campus are well underway. In normal times, a tremendous amount of work goes on behind the scenes…