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Health & Society

Falk College and Whitman School Launch 2 New Public Health and Business Dual Degree Programs

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, By Dawn McWilliams

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics are launching two new dual degree programs to leverage both schools’ national reputations and programmatic strengths. The new programs—an undergraduate public health/business…

Health & Society

Alumnus Helps Sacred Indigenous Objects Find Their Way Home

Monday, March 20, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Travel to just about any major ethnographic and natural history museum around the world and you will encounter installations focusing on Native American and Indigenous society and culture. Exhibitions such as the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Plains…

STEM

Rare Isotopes Help Unlock Mysteries in the Argentine Andes

Friday, March 17, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Every second the Earth is bombarded by vast amounts of cosmic rays—invisible sub-atomic particles that originate from things like the sun and supernova explosions. These high-energy, far-traveled cosmic rays collide with atoms as they enter Earth’s atmosphere and set off…

Campus & Community

Falk Presents Public Health Week Activities for Syracuse University, Local Community

Thursday, March 16, 2023, By Matt Michael

To recognize National Public Health Week from April 3-9, the Department of Public Health in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics is presenting a series of free public events that will focus on a wide range of public…

Arts & Culture

University Artist in Residence Carrie Mae Weems H’17 Receives Prestigious Hasselblad Award

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Internationally renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems H’17, Syracuse University’s first-ever artist in residence, has been named the 2023 Hasselblad Award laureate by the Hasselblad Foundation, a prize that is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize” of photography. “Syracuse University…

Media Tip Sheets

Ted Lasso is back. Do Americans care about soccer, I mean, football?

Tuesday, March 14, 2023, By Ellen Mbuqe

The third season of Ted Lasso has begun.  The incredibly popular Apple+ show about an American college football coach recruited to bring his coaching talents to an English soccer (I mean football) club. Vlad Dima, a professor at Syracuse University….

Campus & Community

Renée Crown University Honors Program Presents ‘The Value of Beauty and Beauty in Science’ Symposium

Tuesday, March 14, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Is there beauty in science? What insights can arise from viewing scientific theories through a lens of beauty? How does such perspective bring value to individuals and society? These are among the interdisciplinary questions to be explored at the Renée…

Campus & Community

Onondaga Historical Association Tour Helps Social Work Students Discover a City ‘Shaped By Its Unfair Past’

Thursday, March 9, 2023, By Matt Michael

“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we…

Campus & Community

Unsung Hero Nichole Henry Empowers Others to Blaze New Paths

Thursday, March 9, 2023, By Kathleen Haley

Nichole Henry didn’t quite believe it when she was told she had been named a 2023 Unsung Hero to be recognized at the 38th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in January. Henry, director of admissions and recruitment…

Health & Society

Maxwell Alumna Taylor Hamilton G’18 To Spend a Year in East Asia as a Luce Scholar

Thursday, March 9, 2023, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Taylor Hamilton G’18 has been named a 2023-24 Luce Scholar. The Luce Scholars Program is a prestigious, nationally competitive fellowship program launched by the Henry Luce Foundation in 1974 to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American…