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Campus & Community

At-Home COVID Testing Kits Available to Students

Tuesday, July 28, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students and Families: With our first group of students arriving on campus this weekend to prepare for the start of the fall semester, we are writing to provide an update on COVID-19 pre-arrival testing expectations. As previously communicated, Syracuse…

Campus & Community

Important Information for Students Quarantining on Campus

Monday, July 27, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students and Families: Later this week, you will officially join the Syracuse University family. I recognize the circumstances under which you are joining are not ideal, nor what you expected, but we are prepared to warmly welcome and help…

Campus & Community

SummerStart Goes Virtual This Year to Support 100 Incoming Students

Monday, July 27, 2020, By Jennifer Russo

Like many other educators and student support professionals, the staff of the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Program (HEOP) and Student Support Services (SSS) faced unique challenges this summer of 2020. All incoming HEOP and SSS students typically attend a…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for National Work on Housing Insecurity in the US

Monday, July 27, 2020, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of “Exiled in America,” an original work rooted in an examination of housing insecurity and homelessness in the United States. The project, originated by Los Angeles…

Campus & Community

Planned Repairs for Carnegie Library Sidewalk

Friday, July 24, 2020, By News Staff

Facilities Services and a local contractor are planning to repair the concrete sidewalks north of Carnegie Library in preparation for students returning to campus. The work will begin the week of July 27 and be complete by Aug. 7. The…

STEM

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Faculty Member Receives Grant to Research the Potential of Laser Technology for Printing Lung Interfaces

Friday, July 24, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Human lungs are intricate 3D structures with air sacs surrounded by blood vessels with a gap between them that can be less than one micrometer (as a frame of reference, human hair is about 100 micrometers wide). This minuscule gap/membrane…

The Washington Times

“Nicholas Sandmann settles defamation lawsuit against Washington Post.”

Friday, July 24, 2020, By Lily Datz

Roy Gutterman, associate professor of newspaper and online journalism at the Newhouse School and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, was quoted in the Washington Times story, “Nicholas Sandmann settles defamation lawsuit against Washington Post.” Gutterman, an expert…

San Antonio Express-News

“Johnson: Promise of ADA remains unfulfilled.”

Friday, July 24, 2020, By Lily Datz

Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, was quoted by the San Antonio Express-News for the story, “Johnson: Promise of ADA remains unfulfilled.” Landes, an expert on the sociology of disability, says that the COVID-19 pandemic greatly…

FiveThirtyEight

“Republicans And Democrats See COVID-19 Very Differently. Is That Making People Sick?”

Thursday, July 23, 2020, By Lily Datz

Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the FiveThirtyEight story, “Republicans And Democrats See COVID-19 Very Differently. Is That Making People Sick?” Gadarian, and expert on American politics and public opinion research,…

Campus & Community

This Family Bleeds Orange

Thursday, July 23, 2020, By Eileen Jevis

Mary Welker ’20 is a mom, a role model to her four daughters, a full-time Syracuse University staff member, an Alumni Scholar and a recipient of the Nancy Gelling Award given to a student for high academic achievement. In May,…