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Arts & Culture

Marla Aaron ’88 Proves Jewelry Can be Beautiful, Functional and Life-Changing

Thursday, March 24, 2022, By John Boccacino

Growing up, Marla Aaron ’88 had a keen eye for jewelry and a penchant for handcrafting wearable works of art for her friends out of fish hooks and other assorted parts. But Aaron harbored no hopes of entering the jewelry-making…

Campus & Community

The Present Family Legacy of Love: A Forever Orange Story

Tuesday, March 22, 2022, By Eileen Korey

Just a few days after Jane Werner Present ’56 died, students at Syracuse University received a gift from her … in the form of a reading by New York Times bestselling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah G’16, the Jane and Daniel…

Veterans

Amanda Lalonde ’23 Went a Long Way to Come Full Circle

Friday, March 4, 2022, By Stephanie Salanger

Living on campus, bonding with friends and trying different subjects before declaring a major are college rites of passage. Not every college student gets the same experience. As Amanda Lalonde ’23 discovered, some of the best lessons in higher education…

STEM

Alumnus Endows Undergraduate Research Award to Honor Big Thinkers

Thursday, February 17, 2022, By Eileen Korey

A newly endowed fund set up to support undergraduate interdisciplinary research recognizes the importance of connecting diverse fields of thought in generating new ideas. It also reflects the experiences and passions of William Hrushesky ’69 who graduated cum laude with…

Sportico

Burton authors “NCAA’s impending pay-for-play panic may be a cry for federal help”

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, By Lily Datz

Rick Burton, David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the Falk College, authored the Sportico opinion piece “NCAA’s impending pay-for-play panic may be a cry for federal help.” Burton, an expert on sports marketing and management, explained the…

Campus & Community

Arts and Sciences Remembers Longtime Physics Professor Kameshwar C. Wali

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) mourns the loss of Kameshwar C. Wali, Steele Professor Emeritus of Physics, who passed away Jan. 14 at the age of 94. An eminent theoretical physicist, Wali was internationally recognized for his research…

Campus & Community

Maxwell School Remembers Peter T. Marsh: ‘Gifted Teacher, Accomplished Scholar’

Monday, February 7, 2022, By Jessica Youngman

In his 33 years as a Maxwell faculty member, Peter T. Marsh penned several books that reflected his research interests, including church history and 19th- and 20th-century Great Britain. Among them, a biography of British politician and social reformer Joseph…

Syracuse.com

Gutterman authors “Censorship of Tully student offers an inadvertent civics lesson”

Friday, February 4, 2022, By Lily Datz

Roy Gutterman, associate professor of magazine, news, and digital journalism in the Newhouse School and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, authored the Syracuse.com opinion piece “Censorship of Tully student offers an inadvertent civics lesson.” Gutterman, an expert…

Campus & Community

CLASS Assistant Director Co-Authors International Standards for Tutor Training to Help Students Succeed Even When They Doubt Themselves

Friday, February 4, 2022, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Samantha Trumble began her career as a secondary school teacher seeking to help her students overcome their fear of the subject she loved most–mathematics. Trumble never imagined that she would draw on this experience, years later, to conquer her own…

Arts & Culture

‘Someone Falls Overboard’: University Professor Stephen Kuusisto Co-Authors Book of Pandemic Poetry

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, By Jen Plummer

Setting the scene … It’s spring of 2020. The world has been shut down for a period of weeks or months (you stopped keeping track at some point). You are living with a disability—perhaps you’re blind or you have a…