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Campus & Community

Trustee Sharon Barner’s ’79 Historic Gift Names 119 Euclid While Providing Support to Black, First-Generation and Underrepresented Students

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, By John Boccacino

Everywhere Sharon Barner ’79 has worked, she has achieved success at the highest levels of her field—as partner at a law firm, as deputy under secretary of commerce and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in President…

Campus & Community

Katherine McDonald Named Falk College Senior Associate Dean for Research and Administration

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, By News Staff

Katherine (Katie) McDonald, Ph.D., has been appointed senior associate dean for research and administration in the Falk College. As senior associate dean, McDonald is responsible for the oversight of research, administration and support for faculty; the supervision of the Falk…

Campus & Community

Philosophy Professor Samuel Gorovitz Featured in Oral History Project About Founding of American Bioethics

Tuesday, January 23, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Samuel Gorovitz, professor of philosophy and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed for an oral history project on bioethics produced by Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics. Titled “Moral Histories,” the collection serves as…

Health & Society

Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Receives American Association of Geographers Fellowship

Tuesday, January 23, 2024, By Matt Michael

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, graduate director and associate professor of food studies in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, was recently selected as a 2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Fellow. AAG recognized 17 geographers in various practice areas for…

Campus & Community

Blizzard Forecasted to Hit the JMA Wireless Dome on Jan. 27

Monday, January 22, 2024, By News Staff

Brace yourself, “The Blizzard” is coming this Saturday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. as the student section fills the JMA Wireless Dome dressed in white as the Orange men’s basketball team takes on N.C. State. This special effort from Otto’s…

Campus & Community

Sobczak Family Support Fund Now Available to Falk College Students

Monday, January 22, 2024, By Matt Michael

After David Sobczak ’23 enrolled at Syracuse University, he gravitated toward social work and helping others because of the time he had spent in hospitals as a child with cerebral palsy. “He was in and out of the hospital for…

Health & Society

Mazza Fellowship Provides Local Government Experience to MPA Student

Monday, January 22, 2024, By News Staff

Nate Cole joined the Maxwell School’s top-ranked master of public administration (M.P.A.) program last summer with a good idea of what he wanted to do upon completing his studies. “I want to work in local government,” says Cole, who earned…

Arts & Culture

International Team of Scholars Explores the Imperial Histories of India’s Most Visited Museum

Monday, January 22, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

From the pyramids in Egypt to India’s Taj Mahal, famous buildings and monuments have been constructed for thousands of years to honor leaders or prominent personages. When Great Britain’s Queen Victoria died in 1901, Lord Curzon, a British statesman and…

Campus & Community

Office of Academic and Career Advising Names Directors

Friday, January 19, 2024, By Caroline K. Reff

In early 2023, the Office of Academic and Career Advising for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs rolled out a new approach that better serves students from the moment they step…

Campus & Community

Maxwell Professor’s Research on Racial and Ethnic Exclusion Supported by Russell Sage Foundation Grant

Friday, January 19, 2024, By Jessica Youngman

Thomas Pearson, assistant professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is part of a team of scholars who have been awarded $195,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the exclusion and expulsion of minority…