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Syracuse Hosting Hult Prize Regional Impact Competition
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…
University Honors Third Cohort of Success Scholars
More than 900 first-year and transfer students earned the Invest in Success Scholarship this year, an award recognizing first semester high-achieving students. Along with the merit-based, renewable scholarship award, the Success Scholars were honored at socially distanced receptions where they…
DEIA Strategic Planning Process Next Steps
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Thank you to all those who have engaged with the latest diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility campus initiatives, updates and developments. I write today to announce new opportunities for engaging with the planning process and…
School of Architecture Mourns Loss of Professor J. François Gabriel
Former Syracuse University architecture Professor J. François Gabriel died March 26 at age 91. A native of France, Gabriel earned diplomas at the Collège des Arts Appliques in 1948 and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1965, where he developed…
Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students Invited to Learn More about First Year Seminar
The Office of Academic Affairs invites faculty, staff and graduate students to participate in information sessions regarding the First Year Seminar (FYS 101) course, to begin in fall 2021. Course leaders will share an overview of the course goals and…
Virginia Is First Southern State to Adopt Its Own Voting Rights Act
According to Sara Swann at The Fulcrum, “Virginia is the first Southern state to adopt its own voting rights act: Almost eight years after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Virginia has…
ECS Junior Alexander Metcalf Selected for 2021 Goldwater Scholarship
Alexander Metcalf, a junior aerospace engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, has been selected for the 2021 Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious…
Audio Arts Student Searches for Second Chances
Allie Westbrook, an audio arts student, talks about her transition from undergraduate to graduate studies amid a year unlike any other. She graduated with a B.M. in sound recording technology in May 2020 and was a Remembrance Scholar. Like many…
“Relative invisibility makes for uphill battle to get COVID vaccines for Americans with IDD”
Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the PBS NewsHour story “Relative invisibility makes for uphill battle to get COVID vaccines for Americans with IDD.” Landes, an expert on the sociology of disability, has…
Urban Video Project Presents ‘Steffani Jemison: Figure 8’
For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration (as well as critical theory), and vernacular…