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Campus & Community

Uniting for Student Success: SummerStart Program Is a Collaborative Effort

Tuesday, July 9, 2024, By News Staff

Every June, a group of incoming first-year students arrives on campus to participate in SummerStart, an initiative of Retention and Student Success. The six-week program gives participating students an opportunity to build a strong foundation for a successful Syracuse University…

Campus & Community

Professor Michael Gill’s Fermentation Stories Project Gets a Taste of Zasar (Photo Story)

Tuesday, July 9, 2024, By News Staff

Fermentation is something Syracuse University School of Education Professor Michael Gill thinks deeply about. The process is the subject of his latest research and has inspired a recent project to explore family and cultural connections to recipes handed down through…

Syracuse University Impact

Raising Guide Dog Puppies on Campus: How Students Are Helping Make a Difference for the Blind

Monday, July 8, 2024, By Christine Grabowski

Have you met Tarzan or Juan yet on campus? These latest members of the University community are hard to miss, with their friendly dispositions, shiny coats and wagging tails. Tarzan, a one-year-old black lab, and Juan, a four-month-old yellow lab, are…

STEM

Emerita Professors Reflect on Their Distinguished Careers in STEM

Monday, July 8, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Four women STEM faculty members, all longtime members of the University community, have recently retired with emerita status, but they leave behind a significant legacy—as valuable researchers, dedicated teachers and inspiring mentors to the next generation. Suzanne Baldwin, Shobha Bhatia,…

Media, Law & Policy

Remembering a Maxwell Torchbearer: Michael O. Sawyer

Friday, July 5, 2024, By Jessica Smith

While many have helped to shape the Maxwell School’s first 100 years, perhaps no one person embodies the spirit, mission and purpose of the school as thoroughly as beloved alumnus and professor Michael O. Sawyer. Sawyer spent almost his entire…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s First Female Full-Time Professor Was an ‘Indomitable Presence’

Friday, July 5, 2024, By News Staff

Marguerite J. Fisher G’42  joined the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs faculty in August 1943, as war raged across the globe. While the war necessitated women’s entry into the workforce, roles remained limited. Fisher, the first female promoted…

Campus & Community

University Remembers Silicon Chip Pioneer, Trans Activist Lynn Conway H’24

Monday, July 1, 2024, By News Staff

Lynn Conway H’24, a renowned computer scientist who received an honorary degree during the University’s Commencement in May, died June 9 in Michigan. She was 86. Conway, who revolutionized global information technology by inventing methods for designing Very Large Scale…

Campus & Community

Jeff Hemsley Named Interim Dean of the School of Information Studies

Friday, June 28, 2024, By News Staff

Incoming Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Lois Agnew announced today that Jeff Hemsley, associate professor in the School of Information Studies (iSchool), will become the iSchool’s interim dean effective July 1. “Jeff is a well-respected member of the iSchool community,…

Campus & Community

100 Together: Alumna Rosalind ‘Roz’ Rudolph Shares a Special Birthday With the Maxwell School

Friday, June 28, 2024, By Jessica Youngman

The Maxwell School is proud to share its 100th birthday with alumna Rosalind “Roz” Rudolph ’44 of Los Angeles, California. Born on July 30, 1924, she was just three months old when the school was founded by entrepreneur George H….

Arts & Culture

Drama Department Ranked Among The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Best Drama Schools in the World

Tuesday, June 25, 2024, By Erica Blust

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has ranked the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama among the 25 best drama schools in the world for the second consecutive year. Ranked No. 23 in THR’s June 19 issue, the department…