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Office of Community Engagement’s Thursday Morning Roundtable with Congressman John Katko covered by various outlets
The most recent Thursday Morning Roundtable, hosted by the Office of Community Engagement, featured Congressman John Katko. Coverage of that event was reported on by Syracuse.com, WSYR-TV, and CNY Central. At the event, Katko spoke about his personal experience during the…
Celebrating the Life of Wynetta Devore
Professor Emerita of Social Work Wynetta Devore was a teacher and scholar whose life focused on serving God, the Syracuse community where she lived and that she loved, and students she taught during her decadeslong distinguished career. She received an…
Faricy Explores Public Perceptions of Welfare via the US Tax Code
In their new book, “The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021), Syracuse University professor Christopher Faricy and Bucknell University professor Christopher Ellis examine how public opinion differs between two types of…
Lender Center Fellows Following Weissman’s Vision for Food Justice
Stop hunger in Syracuse. In its simplest form, that was Evan Weissman’s vision and why he pursued the Lender Center Faculty Fellowship. Weissman, an associate professor in Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College, wanted to use the fellowship…
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….
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…
Poetry and the Super Bowl: two moments that need the other
This Sunday, Amanda Gorman will be the first poet to read an original work before the Super Bowl. Gorman, the youth poet laureate who recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the presidential inauguration last month, will be sharing…
Syracuse University’s Beloved Stadium to Serve as Campus’ Largest Classroom This Semester
Syracuse University’s beloved stadium has served as home for some of the region’s greatest sporting events, concerts and Commencement, the most important rite of passage for college students. Now, it will serve another purpose: as the University’s largest classroom ever….
GEM Program Provides Financing, Connections for Underrepresented Graduate Students in STEM
The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is a partnership between corporations, government laboratories, research institutions and universities that enables underrepresented students to pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields….
Bringing Earlier Era of Activism to Digital Life
Bringing seven decades of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life is the mission of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP). Co-founded by faculty director P. Gabrielle Foreman, the CCP is a scholarly and community research project focused on digitally preserving Black political activism…