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Celebrating 80 Years of the Goon Squad Welcoming New Students to Campus (Podcast)
When the Goon Squad first formed in 1944, its original purpose was to reinforce Syracuse University’s campuswide policy requiring all new students to wear beanie caps during their first semester on campus. Sue Weber ’68 fondly recalls wearing her beanie…
Welcome Week 2024: What You Need to Know
With Welcome Week just a few days away, there is so much for new students to do and so many opportunities to learn about everything Syracuse University! SU News has put together a summary of links and things you need…
‘A Lovely Legacy’: Falk College Remembers Professor Emerita Sarah ‘Sally’ Short
By 1975, Sarah “Sally” Short, Ph.D., Ed.D., was already a legend on the Syracuse University campus. But on Jan. 3, 1975, she became world famous when an article appeared in The New York Times describing her unique teaching methods. The…
Passion for Service Led Jennifer Pluta G’15 to Help Military-Connected Community
When Jennifer Pluta G’15 enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve on May 19, 1999, she had no grand plans for making a career out of her service to her country. Rather, feeling compelled to give back to her country, Pluta…
Maxwell School Announces 2 New Chairs and Trio of Directors for 2024-25
Several Maxwell School faculty have been promoted to leadership roles, including Junko Takeda, who has been named chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) Undergraduate Program after serving in an interim role since July 2023, and Leonard M. Lopoo,…
Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Shows History’s Views on Intellectual Disability
Graduate students in the School of Education turned to primary source documents and artifacts at Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) to discover enlightening—and sometimes startling—information and examples of the ways that people with intellectual disability have been…
Preparing International Fulbright Students for Graduate School (Podcast)
Each summer, the College of Professional Studies hosts a prestigious preparatory program that helps dozens of international Fulbright Scholars begin their journeys to graduate degrees and research opportunities. It’s called the Fulbright pre-academic program, and Syracuse University has served as…
English Language Institute Student Reaches for the Stars
Although Japanese student Kazuma Nagao had never been to the United States, he knew that studying abroad to learn English would help him inch closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming an astronaut. He had no idea, though, that this…
‘I Can’t Wait to Get Started’: Q&A With New College of Law Dean Terence Lau
After graduating from the College of Law in 1998, Terence Lau embarked on a legal career that took him from Detroit to France to Thailand to the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked in the Office of the General Counsel at…
MBA Program Ranked No. 1 Private School Nationally by Bloomberg for Return on Investment
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s MBA program is now ranked No. 1 nationally among private universities for its return on investment (ROI) by Bloomberg. The Whitman School also has the second-highest ROI among all schools in the U.S….