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Campus & Community

A Passion for Leadership and Teamwork: Custodial Manager Annette Statum

Tuesday, December 15, 2020, By Jen Plummer

Annette Statum vividly recalls the hot summer day in 1994 when she walked down Ainsley Drive to the Commissary because she’d heard the University was hiring. Busy raising her children at the time, Statum was looking for part-time work. After…

Campus & Community

COVID-19 Update: Virus Transmission | Staying Healthy | Testing | Flu Vaccine

Friday, December 11, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: Three weeks from today we will ring in the new year. We remain hopeful that 2021 will bring continued scientific progress that helps us overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. Until then, we will continue to…

Arts & Culture

The Bio-Art Mixer: Where Art and the Sciences Meet

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

In bio-art, artists and scientists use living tissues, bacteria and organisms to produce intriguing creations. These works are often intended to inspire conversations and action related to the environment, ecology and the effects of human interaction on nature. At Syracuse…

Health & Society

Skepticism of Masks, Vaccinations Isn’t New: Ph.D. Candidate’s Research on 19th-Century Britain Provides Lessons for Today

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, By Brandon Dyer

Haejoo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is currently researching and writing her dissertation “Medical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” She is exploring 19th-century British anti-vaccination periodicals and pamphlets to examine the rhetoric. “When…

STEM

Professor Vir Phoha Elected as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow 

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, By Brandon Dyer

Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) Professor Vir Phoha has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Recognized globally as one of the top computer scientists in behavioral and continuous authentication, Phoha’s research…

Campus & Community

Important Updates from the Office of Academic Affairs

Friday, December 4, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Colleagues: As we near the end of the fall semester, we are writing to provide you with some important updates from the Office of Academic Affairs regarding: Extension of the tenure clock for faculty who joined Syracuse University in…

Media, Law & Policy

Syracuse University, College of Law Sign Agreement with Uzbekistan Institutions to Assist Uzbek Disability Rights Capacity Building

Thursday, December 3, 2020, By News Staff

Syracuse University and the College of Law have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with three institutions from the Republic of Uzbekistan to strengthen academic ties with the republic, share expertise on disability rights and collaborate to create a disability…

Business & Economy

Women in Leadership Initiative Announces Spring 2021 Programming

Tuesday, December 1, 2020, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

After kicking off in the fall of 2018, the Women in Leadership (WiL) initiative, created through the vision of Candace Campbell Jackson, senior vice president and chief of staff to Chancellor Kent Syverud, and a steering committee of women leaders,…

Campus & Community

New Staff within Office of Diversity and Inclusion Enhances Efforts to Create More Welcoming Campus

Monday, November 30, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

To continue to build its efforts in creating an equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive campus, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has welcomed new staff members and student advisors. The new staff members, working with Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer…

Campus & Community

Overcoming Barriers and Borders to Bring Students Together

Monday, November 30, 2020, By Eileen Korey

The pandemic has impacted every member of the Orange community—students, faculty and staff—and transformed the way people live, learn and work. Perhaps nowhere have these changes been felt more dramatically than among international students and those who serve them with…