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STEM

Biology Major Gains Hands-On Experience With Endangered Animals in Costa Rica

Tuesday, October 5, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

From an early age, Leonardo Rivera ’22 had a fondness for animals and wildlife conservation. Growing up in tropical Puerto Rico, the biology major on a pre-veterinary track remembers investigating the habits of hermit crabs in the sand, watching as…

The Washington Post

The Current Unsustainable Position On Immigration

Tuesday, October 5, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School wrote a Washington Post commentary, “Avoiding past mistakes is key to Congress passing immigration reform that works.” Cohen, the author of this commentary, stated, “Policymakers have promised to regroup…

Campus & Community

Summer Internships Help Humanities Scholars Explore Career Options

Monday, October 4, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

In June, the Graduate School launched a Humanities Summer Internship program, supporting two humanities Ph.D. students through paid internship opportunities at Syracuse University Press and the Syracuse University Art Museum. An outgrowth of the National Endowment for the Humanities Next-Generation…

Campus & Community

Graduate School BIPOC Alliance Reflects on First Event, Plans Programming

Monday, October 4, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The Graduate School’s new initiative for building community, networks and a sense of welcome in support of graduate students who self-identify as Black, Indigenous or other persons of color kicked off the year with an event featuring a panel and…

Arts & Culture

Design Professor Receives Grant to Develop New Interdisciplinary Minor Focusing on Sustainable Design Innovations

Thursday, September 30, 2021, By Erica Blust

Louise Manfredi, Ph.D., an assistant professor of industrial and interaction design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, received a faculty grant from VentureWell, an organization that fosters collaboration to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education. VentureWell’s…

Health & Society

Food and Social Justice Advocate Avalon Gupta VerWiebe Named First Recipient of the Evan Weissman Scholarship

Thursday, September 30, 2021, By News Staff

Avalon Gupta VerWiebe, a food studies graduate student in the Falk College, is the first to receive the Evan Weissman Scholarship, a newly created scholarship fund honoring the late Professor Weissman that supports food studies graduate students. Gupta VerWiebe’s personal…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University Libraries Contributes to University of Toronto Art Museum Exhibition on Plastics

Wednesday, September 29, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Multiple artifacts from Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC) Plastics Artifact Collection are currently on display in the University of Toronto Art Museum exhibition titled “Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through.” The exhibition, open from Sept. 8…

Campus & Community

Undergraduate Research Grants Open New Opportunities for Students

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, By News Staff

Ashanti Hunter and Michelle Ho, inclusive early childhood and special education seniors in the School of Education, are engaged in research with Professor George Theoharis on the pipeline to educational leadership positions for women of color for building and school…

Media, Law & Policy

In Memoriam: Joseph Strasser, ‘Forever an Important Figure in Our History’

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, By Jessica Youngman

Joseph Strasser ’53, G’58, H’20 was just 8 years old in 1940 when he and his brother escaped Nazi persecution on a Kindertransport rescue boat. Two years earlier, the Third Reich had annexed their home country, Austria. Their father, Paul,…

Arts & Culture

Arts and Sciences Professor Instrumental in the Rediscovery of Lost Painting

Monday, September 27, 2021, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse University Distinguished Professor of Art History Wayne Franits was one of the first people in more than three centuries to see a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Hendrick ter Brugghen that was presumed to have been lost to the…