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Helping Address Hiring Crises, the Baldanza Fellows Program Expands to Syracuse City Schools

Thursday, January 18, 2024, By Martin Walls

Teacher shortages and a predominantly white teaching force are two persistent hiring trends that continue to challenge public schools nationwide. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 90% of school districts reported difficulties hiring teachers for the 2023-24…

Campus & Community

Orange Innovation Fund Spring 2024 Grant Applications Open

Thursday, January 18, 2024, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries is accepting spring 2024 applications for the Orange Innovation Fund grant through Friday, March 29. Interested applicants should plan to attend one of the information and proposal/grant writing workshops being held in early March. The Orange Innovation…

Campus & Community

Megan Myers Appointed Assistant Dean of Advancement in Falk College

Wednesday, January 17, 2024, By News Staff

Megan Myers has been named the Falk College’s assistant dean of advancement effective March 1. Myers will report to Dean Jeremy Jordan and lead all Falk College advancement efforts working closely with the University’s Office of Advancement and External Affairs…

Campus & Community

Please Review! Important Back to Campus Public Health Information

Wednesday, January 17, 2024, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: At the start of this new semester, I want to welcome our newest community members and welcome back our returning students, faculty and staff. As coordinator of the University’s ongoing response efforts to communicable illnesses,…

Health & Society

Public Health Chair David Larsen Receives Fulbright to Continue Research in Austria

Tuesday, January 16, 2024, By Matt Michael

When Falk College Department of Public Health Chair and Professor David Larsen was notified that he had received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach and continue his wastewater surveillance research at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria this…

Campus & Community

Drama Department Pop-Up Library Opens at Syracuse Stage/Drama Theater Complex

Tuesday, January 16, 2024, By Cristina Hatem

Amanda DuBose, music and performing arts librarian, is opening a drama department pop-up library in the Storch Theater Lobby in the Syracuse Stage/Drama Theater Complex. The ribbon cutting for the new pop-up library will take place on Jan. 17 at…

Campus & Community

New Grant Allows Shaw Center’s Literacy Corps to Hire More Undergraduate Tutors

Tuesday, January 16, 2024, By Diane Stirling

Up to 100 new community engagement service positions tutoring children and teens in Syracuse City School District and other area schools have been made possible by a new grant to the Shaw Center Syracuse University Literacy Corps program. The grant…

STEM

Medicinal Chemist Named Jack and Laura H. Milton Endowed Professor

Friday, January 12, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Robert Doyle, dean’s professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has been named the inaugural Jack and Laura H. Milton Professor in A&S. A…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Students Take Honors in Syracuse’s Inaugural Open Data Day

Friday, January 12, 2024, By News Staff

On a recent Saturday afternoon, students in Michiko Ueda-Ballmer’s Data-Driven Decision-Making class got to test what they’ve learned in a first-ever competition designed by the City of Syracuse to use data to address societal problems related to transportation. The class,…

Campus & Community

How Meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Rick Wright G’93 and Inspired His Broadcasting Career (Podcast)

Friday, January 12, 2024, By John Boccacino

Roosevelt “Rick” Wright G’93 had a front-row seat as the Civil Rights Movement took off across the American South in the late 1950s and early 1960s, participating in the sit-ins and demonstrations while coming face-to-face with police dogs and fire…