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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…

Campus & Community

Call for Volunteers: Syracuse Welcome 2023

Monday, July 17, 2023, By Gabrielle Lake

Paved with such milestones as the tradition of Syracuse Welcome, being Orange is celebrating and empowering each unique student experience. “Syracuse Welcome not only ushers in the newest incoming student class but is a uniting campus celebration,” says New Student…

Media, Law & Policy

Junko Takeda and Merril Silverstein Named Chairs at Maxwell School

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

Two Maxwell School faculty members have been appointed department chairs: Junko Takeda and Merril Silverstein. Takeda, professor of history and Daicoff Faculty Scholar, was named interim chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement Undergraduate Program. She fills the vacancy left…

Campus & Community

Utility Work Between College Place and the Quad to Begin This Week

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By News Staff

Beginning this week, National Grid will undertake a natural gas pipe replacement project between College Place and the Quad, along the path between Sims Hall and Shaffer Art Building and Link Hall and Slocum Hall. The project begins today and…

Campus & Community

Breedlove Readers Display Works at Community ‘ArtStory’ Event

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By Diane Stirling

The artwork of local teens was on display during a recent event hosted by professors Courtney Mauldin and Rochele Royster at Syracuse University’s South Side Communications Center. Participants in the event, “ArtStory: Love & Language,” were members of the Breedlove…

STEM

First-of-Its Kind Research Studies Arsenic Exposure in Syracuse Children

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By Daryl Lovell

A new study published in the journal JAMA Network studies the connections between arsenic exposure and cardiovascular disease processes in children. Led by Brooks B. Gump, Ph.D., M.P.H., the Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Falk College,…

STEM

Registration Open for National Science Foundation I-Corps Innovation Course

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University will host a free, virtual U.S. National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) regional course this fall. The program is for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage startup founders who are interested in exploring the market potential of their…

Health & Society

Professor, Graduate Student to Examine Impact of Food Assistance on Maternal and Infant Health

Thursday, July 13, 2023, By News Staff

Sarah Hamersma, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, and graduate student Mitch McFarlane, have received a $75,000 grant from Tufts University to support their examination of the impacts of food assistance on maternal and infant health. The funding…

Campus & Community

Student Experience Welcomes Dawn Singleton as New VP of Student Transition, Access and Inclusion

Wednesday, July 12, 2023, By Shannon Andre

The Student Experience division welcomed Dawn Singleton, Ed.D., as the new vice president of student transition, access and inclusion on July 1. Singleton joins the Syracuse University community from Rowan University where she served in multiple leadership roles over the…