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Students: Submit Your Required COVID Booster Record
Dear Students: As shared earlier this week, the University will require all eligible students, faculty and staff who routinely access any Syracuse University campus location or facility to receive a COVID booster shot prior to the start of the spring…
How Memes Invite Users To Share Their Experiences With Others
Whitney Phillips, assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was quoted in the New York Times piece “‘The Feminine Urge’ Meme Explained.” With the rise in social media has come a rise…
The Transition Away From Using Fossil Fuels
Charles Driscoll, University Professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was interviewed for the Marketplace story “Oil execs ponder a future without oil as they gather in Houston” and a piece for Syracuse.com. Driscoll discusses conversations surrounding the…
Important Update About COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: Earlier this week, we shared that the Biden Administration issued an executive order requiring that federal contractors mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for employees (subject to medical or religious exemptions), including a provision requiring that federal…
Orange Success Mentoring Program Launches
In support of enhancing student connection and success on campus, the University has launched a mentoring program in partnership with Mentor Collective, an international online mentoring platform. Beginning in the spring 2022 semester, the pilot semester of the Orange Success…
Consultative Sessions Announced in Search for Next Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion
The search committee for the University’s next vice president for diversity and inclusion today announced two consultative sessions in which students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to identify key University diversity priorities and provide input on the characteristics,…
Shared Competencies Professional Development Series Will Be Offered in Spring 2022
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence will offer three professional development programs this coming spring to support faculty seeking to incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility principles in their course and curriculum design. The series will also help faculty…
Jillian Scheer Named Inaugural Cobb-Jones Professor of Clinical Psychology
When Janet Gretchen Jones’ wife Faith (“Chris”) Maltby Cobb ’51, G’66, G’74 (Ph.D.) passed away in 2018, Jones considered different ways to honor her partner’s legacy. Out of all the different institutions and organizations her wife was involved with throughout…
Physicist and Chemist in College of Arts and Sciences Awarded NIH MIRA Grants
Researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry have been awarded Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding,…
Kyle Rittenhouse’s Trial Has Raised Discussions Surrounding the Safety of Protesting
Danielle Smith, professor of African American Studies and director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote commentary for Syracuse.com, “The idea that Americans should be afraid to protest is a threat to our…