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Campus & Community

Libraries Reopen to Visitors

Monday, June 21, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

In alignment with New York State and the University lifting COVID-19 restrictions, Syracuse University Libraries has reopened to the public, effective immediately. All visitor and capacity restrictions have been lifted in the Libraries. In accordance with the U.S. Centers for…

Media Tip Sheets

Sharp Drop in Asylum Seekers Allowed Into Country Under MPP, TRAC’s Data Show

Thursday, June 17, 2021, By News Staff

A new report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research center at Syracuse University, shows that the number of immigrants whose cases transferred out of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) dropped sharply in May. 4,476 MPP cases had been…

Campus & Community

Forever Orange: The Campaign for Syracuse University Raises $1B to Further Academic Excellence and Student Success for Generations to Come

Thursday, June 17, 2021, By News Staff

Less than 20 months after the public launch of a historic giving campaign with the ambitious goal of raising $1.5 billion, Syracuse University today announced it has reached the $1 billion milestone. The funds raised as part of Forever Orange:…

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Study Reveals COVID-19 Risk Factors for Those With IDD

Wednesday, June 16, 2021, By Lily Datz

A study of nearly 550 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities receiving residential services in New York City found that age, larger residential settings, Down syndrome and chronic kidney disease were the most common risk factors for COVID-19 diagnosis, and…

Media, Law & Policy

Four Maxwell Students Named as Boren Fellows

Wednesday, June 16, 2021, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Four students in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs have been named as recipients of the 2021 Boren Fellowship. The fellowship, sponsored by the National Security Education Program, funds immersive foreign language study abroad experiences for graduate students…

STEM

Novel CBD Research Earns Psychology Ph.D. Candidate Prestigious Dissertation Award

Tuesday, June 15, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

Martin De Vita, Ph.D. candidate in psychology, received the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award for his study on the pain-relieving effects of cannabidiol (CBD) in humans. De Vita was one of…

Campus & Community

Additional COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted

Tuesday, June 15, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Earlier today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that 70% of all adults in New York State have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination. Here on the Syracuse campus, 97% of benefits-eligible faculty and…

STEM

A Gift to Inspire Innovation by Bringing Opportunity to Diverse Talent

Monday, June 14, 2021, By Eileen Korey

It was the mid-1960s and Nicholas “Nick” Donofrio G’71, H’11 described it as a “great time” for electrical engineers. They were in huge demand and the young graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute took a job at IBM in Poughkeepsie, New…

Campus & Community

2021 CUSE Grants Fund 79 Projects

Monday, June 14, 2021, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Office of Research has awarded funds to 79 projects for the fourth round of the annual internal grant program to provide intramural funding for faculty research and scholarly projects. The program is funded through Invest Syracuse. The Collaboration for…

Media Tip Sheets

New research: how political bias impacts believing sexual assault victims

Monday, June 14, 2021, By Ellen Mbuqe

New research from Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications reveals a relationship between political biases and attitudes about sexual assault. Authored by assistant professor Rebecca Ortiz and PhD student Andrea Smith, the article “A social identity threat perspective on why partisans…