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Campus & Community

Gawrysiak to Oversee Esports Initiatives

Wednesday, August 2, 2023, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Joey Gawrysiak has been named executive director of the University’s new esports communications and management degree program. Gawrysiak developed one of the first esports degrees in the country at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, where he is now a professor…

STEM

National Science Foundation Renews Funding for Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program

Tuesday, August 1, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Funding for operating the Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ULSAMP) program has been renewed, permitting Syracuse University to continue leading a seven-institution initiative to broaden educational opportunities for students from underrepresented communities to study and pursue careers in…

Campus & Community

Tessa Murphy’s ‘Creole Archipelago’ Garners Elsa Goveia Book Prize and 2022 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize

Friday, July 28, 2023, By News Staff

Tessa Murphy, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received two new prizes for her first book, “The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). These…

Campus & Community

Celebrating Otto the Orange (Photo Story)

Thursday, July 27, 2023, By Christine Grabowski

Fans of Otto the Orange are super excited for Otto’s upcoming induction into the Class of 2023 Mascot Hall of Fame (MHOF) Saturday, Aug. 12, in Whitting, Indiana. They will be one of only two mascots inducted this year. The…

Campus & Community

Tracy Barlok Named Chief Advancement Officer, Gabe Nugent Appointed General Counsel

Thursday, July 27, 2023, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced two leadership appointments on his executive team. Tracy Barlok has been named senior vice president and chief advancement officer, and Gabe Nugent will serve as senior vice president and general counsel. Both appointments, which are…

Campus & Community

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

$1M Gift for Culinary Hub at John A. Lally Athletics Complex Honors Joseph O. Lampe ’53, L’55, H’04

Wednesday, July 26, 2023, By Eileen Korey

Joseph O. Lampe ’53, L’55, H’04 was the kind of alumnus that every university wants to have—engaged, fiercely loyal, generous, philanthropic and inspiring. Lampe often credited his alma mater for providing him with opportunities and life lessons that made it…

STEM

Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Charles Driscoll Selected for the 2023 Clarke Prize in Water Science

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, By Alex Dunbar

Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Charles Driscoll has been selected to receive the 2023 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Water Science and Technology from the National Water Research Institute. Driscoll is the University and Distinguished Professor of…

Media Tip Sheets

On National Monuments for Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, By Ellen Mbuqe

Paula C. Johnson, Professor of Law and Director of the  Cold Case Justice Initiative , offers reactions to the announcement that President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was abducted and killed by white…

Business & Economy

Falk College, UNLV to Launch Sports, Entertainment and Innovation Conference Next Summer

Thursday, July 20, 2023, By Matt Michael

On July 14, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Sports Innovation and Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, in collaboration with the Las Vegas-based guest experience agency Circle, proudly announced the launch of a first-of-it-kind Sports,…