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Campus & Community

Graduate Student Updates for Fall 2020

Friday, July 10, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Graduate Students: Over the last few weeks, I hosted a series of listening sessions, first with graduate program directors, then with graduate students. In this email, which has also been shared with all faculty and University leadership, you will…

Campus & Community

Coronavirus Update 7.9.20: Engagement Opportunities, Mask Guidance and Travel Restrictions

Thursday, July 9, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families, This is a critical time of preparation as many faculty and staff return to campus this summer, and as we plan to welcome back thousands of students next month. You will continue to see…

Health & Society

Ph.D. Candidate Receives Dissertation Fellowship to Analyze Contemporary Buddhist Charities in Southeast Asia

Wednesday, July 8, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Sara Swenson, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Newcombe Fellowship supports…

Health & Society

‘Avoid the Coronavirus Blame Game’

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By News Staff

Rebecca Ortiz is an assistant professor of advertising in the Newhouse School. Her primary areas of expertise are health communication research and campaign development and evaluation. In many states across the United States recently, the coronavirus positivity rate for people…

STEM

Arts and Sciences Biologists Win the Thomas Henry Huxley Award for Their Creation of an Evolutionary Learning Module

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Researchers from the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences are winners of the Society for the Study of Evolution’s (SSE’s) prestigious Thomas Henry Huxley Award. This marks the first time a team from Syracuse University has…

STEM

Recent Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Alumna Receives Fulbright Grant to Study in France

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Both of the post-graduation options Santita Ebangwese ’19, G’20 was considering would be a dream come true for most people. Would she rather play professional volleyball in Europe or go to medical school? During her incredible career at Syracuse University,…

STEM

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Student Awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Zheng Xiong, a biomedical and chemical engineering Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions…

STEM

A&S Researchers Study the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Released at the East African Rift System

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Calculating Earth’s carbon budget is vitally important in the effort to track global warming and climate change. The carbon budget is the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions permitted over a period of time to keep the Earth’s atmosphere…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud, University Leaders Announce Changes and Updates to Key Administrative, Academic Units

Monday, July 6, 2020, By News Staff

As Syracuse University continues to advance its strategic priorities, Chancellor Kent Syverud and other University leaders today announced changes and updates to key academic and administrative units. They include University College, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Department of Athletics…

Al Jazeera

“Mexico ‘more violent’ and ‘worse’ two years after AMLO election.”

Wednesday, July 1, 2020, By Lily Datz

Gladys McCormick, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the Al Jazeera story “Mexico ‘more violent’ and ‘worse’ two years after AMLO election.” Two years ago the election of Lopez Obrador brought hope for change to…