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Faculty Writing Groups Open for Spring 2021
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence is offering four options for full-time and part-time faculty seeking support, feedback, accountability or interaction with colleagues while completing or making significant progress on a scholarly writing project. Groups will begin on Feb….
Ash Wednesday Schedule Announced
Ash Wednesday is Feb. 17, marking the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. Lent is a 40-day period of reflection that guides people of Christian faith to the “Triduum,” or Sacred Three Days, that begins on the evening of…
“Experts Predict When You Can Have Your Maskless Wedding.”
Brooks Gump, Falk Family Endowed Professor in Falk College, was quoted in the Elemental story “Experts Predict When You Can Have Your Maskless Wedding.” Gump, an expert in epidemiology and public health, believes that people will need to continue to…
New Future Professors Fellowship Program Seeking Applicants
The Office of Academic Affairs has announced a new program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering the professoriate. The Syracuse University Future Professors Fellowship Program seeks to award five fellowships annually to talented postdoctoral scholars in any…
Gifting Solace in Words and Images
Faced with creating classwork for an incoming cohort of first-year photography students and hampered by the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, Associate Professor Doug DuBois of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia came up…
What Drugs Cause Birth Defects? Search for Answers Turbocharges Zhen Ma’s Bioengineering Lab
Zhen Ma arrived at Syracuse University in 2016, fresh from a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, to set up his own lab. Appointed assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering and the Carol and Samuel Nappi…
Syracuse Native Finds Career in Team Science
Plansky Hoang ’15, G’20 is the youngest of seven children born to immigrant parents in Syracuse. She attended Henninger High School and came to Syracuse University as an undergraduate to major in biomedical and chemical engineering. “When I started college,…
University Lectures Kicks Off Spring 2021 Series, Featuring Four Dynamic Guests, on Feb. 16
The University Lectures continues its 20th season this spring with four dynamic speakers: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, on Tuesday, Feb. 16; Misty Copeland, principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater, on Tuesday, Feb. 23; Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, agent for…
“The biggest win: In 2020, NFL found ways to play every game.”
Dennis Deninger, professor of practice in Falk College and the Newhouse School, was interviewed for the Associated Press story “The biggest win: In 2020, NFL found ways to play every game.” Deninger, an expert on the Super Bowl, says that…
Chancellor’s 2021 Winter Message to the University Community
Chancellor Kent Syverud will deliver his 2021 Winter Message to the University Community on the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 9. Due to the ongoing restrictions on in-person gatherings, the Chancellor’s message will be delivered virtually this year in an email…