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In Memoriam: Minnie Bruce Pratt

Wednesday, July 26, 2023, By Eileen Korey

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…

Campus & Community

University Remembers Professor Emerita and Scholar Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo

Wednesday, July 26, 2023, By News Staff

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…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture, SUNY ESF Faculty Awarded Funding for Research on Racial Wealth Gap

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

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…

Campus & Community

Margarita Estévez-Abe Named McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence

Wednesday, July 19, 2023, By News Staff

Margarita Estévez-Abe, associate professor of political science and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar, has been named the Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence. Established in 2016, the McClure Professorship supports teaching excellence and research and is awarded for a three-year term….

Campus & Community

BioInspired Institute Awards 2 Cross-Institutional Project Grants

Tuesday, July 18, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University’s BioInspired Institute has awarded a new round of intramural grants to two interdisciplinary, cross-institutional research projects. One project looks at how polar fungi physically adapt to survive in extreme climate environments. Its researchers are working to determine how the…

STEM

A&S Physicists Design Technology Used to Discover New Information About What the Universe Is Made Of

Tuesday, July 11, 2023, By News Staff

College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) physicists just launched a new tracking device to research the fundamental forces and particles in the universe. The device, known as the Upstream Tracker, was installed at the renowned European Organization for Nuclear Research…

Campus & Community

Newest Hall of Fame Inductee at Syracuse University: Otto the Orange

Friday, June 23, 2023, By Christine Grabowski

Syracuse University’s very own Otto the Orange will be one of only two mascots to be inducted into the Class of 2023 Mascot Hall of Fame on Saturday, Aug. 12. The hall of fame made the announcement today following a…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Professor Awarded International Fellowships

Friday, June 9, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

Throughout the upcoming academic year, School of Architecture Associate Professor Lawrence Chua will embark on three international fellowships supporting the research and writing of his next single-authored scholarly monograph investigating the chronopolitics and temporal entanglements of modern architecture and the…

STEM

Mechanical Engineering Student Ruohan Xu Receives Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize

Friday, June 2, 2023, By News Staff

Recent mechanical engineering and applied mathematics graduate Ruohan Xu ’23, G’24, has received the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Prize for his research activities. Xu received the award from the Women in Science and Engineering Review Committee and was nominated by his…

Veterans

Office of Veteran and Military Affairs Celebrates Graduating Military-Connected Students

Wednesday, May 24, 2023, By Charlie Poag

The Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA) welcomed the campus community to the National Veterans Resource Center (NVRC) on May 12, for a day of celebrating the academic achievements of graduating military-connected students. The day started with an early morning…