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Campus & Community

Uniting for Student Success: SummerStart Program Is a Collaborative Effort

Tuesday, July 9, 2024, By News Staff

Every June, a group of incoming first-year students arrives on campus to participate in SummerStart, an initiative of Retention and Student Success. The six-week program gives participating students an opportunity to build a strong foundation for a successful Syracuse University…

Campus & Community

Professor Michael Gill’s Fermentation Stories Project Gets a Taste of Zasar (Photo Story)

Tuesday, July 9, 2024, By News Staff

Fermentation is something Syracuse University School of Education Professor Michael Gill thinks deeply about. The process is the subject of his latest research and has inspired a recent project to explore family and cultural connections to recipes handed down through…

Syracuse University Impact

Raising Guide Dog Puppies on Campus: How Students Are Helping Make a Difference for the Blind

Monday, July 8, 2024, By Christine Grabowski

Have you met Tarzan or Juan yet on campus? These latest members of the University community are hard to miss, with their friendly dispositions, shiny coats and wagging tails. Tarzan, a one-year-old black lab, and Juan, a four-month-old yellow lab, are…

STEM

Emerita Professors Reflect on Their Distinguished Careers in STEM

Monday, July 8, 2024, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Four women STEM faculty members, all longtime members of the University community, have recently retired with emerita status, but they leave behind a significant legacy—as valuable researchers, dedicated teachers and inspiring mentors to the next generation. Suzanne Baldwin, Shobha Bhatia,…

Media, Law & Policy

Remembering a Maxwell Torchbearer: Michael O. Sawyer

Friday, July 5, 2024, By Jessica Smith

While many have helped to shape the Maxwell School’s first 100 years, perhaps no one person embodies the spirit, mission and purpose of the school as thoroughly as beloved alumnus and professor Michael O. Sawyer. Sawyer spent almost his entire…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s First Female Full-Time Professor Was an ‘Indomitable Presence’

Friday, July 5, 2024, By News Staff

Marguerite J. Fisher G’42  joined the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs faculty in August 1943, as war raged across the globe. While the war necessitated women’s entry into the workforce, roles remained limited. Fisher, the first female promoted…

STEM

Scientists Spin Up a New Way to Unlock Black Hole Mysteries

Friday, July 5, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Black holes are among the most studied but least understood cosmic phenomena for astrophysicists. While not technically a “hole,” these objects derive their name from the fact that nothing, including light, can escape the grasp of their immense gravitational field….

STEM

Biology Professor Receives NSF Grant to Study ‘Community Coalescence’

Tuesday, July 2, 2024, By News Staff

Each fermented food—kombucha, sauerkraut or sourdough bread—is the result of an active, unique microbiome, which is the microbial community in a particular environment. A sourdough starter, for instance, is a distinctive community of yeasts and bacteria that ferments carbohydrates in…

Campus & Community

What’s Happening in CNY: Where to Watch Fireworks This Fourth of July

Monday, July 1, 2024, By Christine Grabowski

Wondering where you can catch fireworks this Fourth of July holiday? We have rounded up a list of where you can watch them. Monday, July 1 Veteran’s Memorial Park at Gillie Lake (Camillus): Concert will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m.,…

Campus & Community

AirOrangeX Upgrade: Wi-Fi for All

Monday, July 1, 2024, By Eric Ferguson

On Tuesday, July 9, the AirOrangeX wireless network will transition to a new model that does not require users to log in with a username and password. In addition to offering the largest private wireless network in higher education, with…