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Campus & Community

COVID-19 Update: Infections Rising | Vigilance Needed | Departure Planning and Testing

Friday, November 6, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: Our campus community has responded to the many challenges we have faced this semester with selflessness, maturity and grace. Like those we have already overcome, the significant surge in new COVID-19 cases in Onondaga…

Campus & Community

More Than Contact Tracers, Students ‘Want To Make a Difference’

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By Matt Michael

As everyone in the Syracuse University community has learned, 2020 is about staying nimble and getting creative. So when students hired for the Syracuse University COVID-19 contact tracing team did not have many contacts to trace, they nimbly and creatively…

Media, Law & Policy

What Election Results Reveal About LGBTQ+ Winners and Voters

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By Daryl Lovell

In what’s being called the rainbow wave, dozens of LGBTQ+ candidates captured historic wins in the 2020 U.S. elections, including the election of the first openly transgender person for a State Senate seat and the first gay and Afro-Latino and…

Media, Law & Policy

Peace Corps, Fulbright Evacuees Find Community, Opportunity at Maxwell School

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By News Staff

On a Monday morning in mid-March, Jeremy Gonzalez opened his email and learned he was being immediately evacuated from his Peace Corps post in West Timor, Indonesia. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had already prompted travel restrictions around the world, his…

Campus & Community

Life Takes Aisha Huntley on a Winding, Rewarding Educational Journey

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Eileen Jevis

For many adults, it takes courage to walk through a door that can change the trajectory of their life. Oftentimes, that first step is taken with a mixture of hope and trepidation. Aisha Huntley ’05, G ’11 never imagined that…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents ‘Alinka Echeverría: Heroine’ on View Through Dec. 10

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work presents “Heroine,” a solo exhibition of work by Mexican-British multimedia artist and visual anthropologist Alinka Echeverría. Echeverría’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work through Dec. 10. Copies of Echeverría’s exhibition…

USA Today

“Election 2020: Terrified to lose and afraid to hope.” 

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Lily Datz

Afton Kapuscinski, assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Psychological Services Center, was interviewed for the USA Today article “Election 2020: Terrified to lose and afraid to hope.” The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020…

Afton Kapuscinski

Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Services Center
WHEC TV (Rochester)

“Nursing home residents face voting challenges during pandemic.” 

Thursday, October 29, 2020, By Lily Datz

Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and faculty director of online education in the College of Law, was interviewed by WHEC TV (Rochester) for the story “Nursing home residents face voting challenges during pandemic.” Kohn, an expert…

Veterans

Meet Lt. Col. Travis Sheets, Air Force ROTC Commander

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, By News Staff

Throughout his career, Lieutenant Colonel Travis Sheets has had a passion for teaching and mentoring. Now, as the new Commander of Air Force ROTC Detachment 535 at Syracuse, he’s bringing that same passion to his role and helping to develop…