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Campus & Community

Once a High School Dropout, Now a High Honor Student in Falk College

Friday, April 26, 2019, By Eileen Jevis

As a public school student in Massachusetts, Chevon Janczuk thought she had her life all figured out. “It turned out my teenage self was wrong,” she says. Janczuk dropped out of high school in her sophomore year, but immediately recognized…

STEM

Yona Lei Named Recipient of the 2019 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By News Staff

Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) has announced that Yongna (Yona) Lei, a senior majoring in biochemistry and minoring in philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the 2019 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize. Norma…

Campus & Community

University College Announces Student HEOP Honors

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Eileen Jevis

Syracuse University’s Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) presented its annual academic awards on April 19 in the Schine Student Center. HEOP is a special admission program for part-time students whose financial and educational backgrounds would prohibit them from regular admission…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Director Shane Lavalette Awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Cjala Surratt

Shane Lavalette, photographer, independent publisher and director of Light Work, is one of 111 artists, along with 12 organizations, to be awarded $3.168 million in funding from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in its 2018-19 grant cycle. The foundation’s average grant to…

Campus & Community

Bethany Murphy Selected to Receive Prestigious Udall Scholarship

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Bethany Murphy has always felt that water is a part of her identity. A native of Seekonk, Massachusetts, she grew up near the Atlantic Ocean. “I was always by the water, whether it was the brook that runs through my backyard, the…

Media Tip Sheets

LIGO Livingston Detector Catches Binary Neutron Star Merger, Says Physics Professor

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the LIGO Livingston detector and VIRGO detector captured another binary neutron star merger Stefan Ballmer is an associate professor of physics at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Below, he answers four key questions about the LIGO/VIRGO detection,…

Media, Law & Policy

Bergman, Rutledge to Co-chair 2019 Mirror Awards Ceremony

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Nomi M. Bergman, president of Advance/Newhouse, and Thomas M. Rutledge, chairman and CEO of Charter Communications, will serve as co-chairs for the 2019 Mirror Awards ceremony, to be held June 13 in New York City. The awards, sponsored by the Newhouse…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Celebrates Seven Foundations Scholars

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By News Staff

Foundations is a workshop series that introduces Syracuse University students to essential life-skills. The Foundations Scholarship program started in fall 2017 as a cross-campus collaboration of schools/colleges and departments, including the Office of Professional and Career Development, the Office of Financial Literacy and…

Campus & Community

Laura Bush to Visit Syracuse University as D’Aniello Family Speaker

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By Leah Lazarz

Former First Lady of the United States Laura Bush will speak at Syracuse University as part of the D’Aniello Family Speaker Series on Wednesday, May 1, at 5:30 p.m. in the Whitman School’s Marvin and Helaine Lender Auditorium. The event…

Campus & Community

Celebrate the Earth at Earthfest

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By News Staff

Earthfest is Sunday, April 28, from noon to 4 p.m. in the Thornden Park Amphitheater. The sustainability-themed music and arts festival celebrates Earth Day, sustainability on the Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) campuses, and…