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STEM

School of Information Studies Creates a Modern Learning Lab With Azure

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, By Anya Woods

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has worked closely with Microsoft to bring cloud technology to the school, including establishing a modern learning lab. In 2019, the iSchool began a cloud migration that transformed its academic services and created new…

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…

Health & Society

Professors Theoharis and George Awarded Lender Center Grant to Study Schools’ DEI Policies

Monday, July 31, 2023, By Martin Walls

George Theoharis, professor of educational leadership and inclusive elementary/early childhood education, and Leela George, associate teaching professor of educational leadership, both in the School of Education, have been awarded a 2023 Lender Center for Social Justice grant. The award is…

Campus & Community

New Leadership Structure Announced at Whitman School; J. Michael Haynie to Serve as Executive Dean, Alexander McKelvie to Continue Service as Interim Dean

Friday, July 28, 2023, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced a new leadership structure at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management—designed to advance and accelerate growth opportunities and cement the school’s position as a preeminent provider of business education. J. Michael Haynie, vice…

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…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture, SUNY ESF Faculty Awarded Funding for Research on Racial Wealth Gap

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

School of Architecture Associate Dean for Research Eliana Abu-Hamdi and Assistant Professor Iman Fayyad, along with Daniel Cronan, assistant professor of landscape architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), have recently been awarded a $100,000 grant…

Campus & Community

JMA Wireless Dome Transformation Project Continues

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, By News Staff

Construction continues at the JMA Wireless Dome on the installation of upgraded chairback seating and the introduction of new premium offerings throughout the venue. The change from bench seating to chairback seating will create a new fan experience, including a new…

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,…

Campus & Community

BioInspired Institute Awards 2 Cross-Institutional Project Grants

Tuesday, July 18, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University’s BioInspired Institute has awarded a new round of intramural grants to two interdisciplinary, cross-institutional research projects. One project looks at how polar fungi physically adapt to survive in extreme climate environments. Its researchers are working to determine how the…

Health & Society

New Course Introduces Students to Emerging Field of Sport Social Work  

Friday, July 14, 2023, By Matt Michael

The idea of merging social work principles and practices with the sports industry is an emerging field, and Syracuse University is at the forefront with a new undergraduate course scheduled to start this fall in the School of Social Work…