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Falk College Staff Member and Her Therapy Dog Bring Smiles, Heart to CNY Community
“Gus” is a 107-pound St. Bernard-Great Pyrenees mix—a loving, cuddly giant of a pup who is seriously dedicated to his job. He and his pet parent, Amy Dumas, assistant director of the Research Center in the Falk College, are regular…
Anna Feldman Named Recipient of NOAA-Hollings Scholarship
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in October 2012, Anna Feldman’s community was battered by flooding and the breakdown of utilities, transit systems and wastewater treatment plants. A few months later, as an eighth-grade student, she participated in a…
Academic Strategic Plan: Promoting Success in Innovation
Entrepreneurial thinking and the rapid pace of innovation are supplanting traditional organizational practices, reshaping the nature of citizenship across the globe, and changing the ways Syracuse University’s graduates interact in the global economy and society at large. For these reasons,…
Faculty and Staff Artwork on Display in On My Own Time Exhibition
Photos, paintings, sculpture, jewelry and other pieces of art by University faculty and staff members are on display in the Noble Room of Hendricks Chapel. The University’s On My Own Time (OMOT) Exhibition is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to…
Maureen Casey: Problem Solver Who Just Can’t Quit
Maureen Casey’s office at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) is more than 150 miles from her childhood home on a dairy farm in Hudson Falls, New York. But the lessons she learned there, tending dairy cows and…
Light Work Director Shane Lavalette Awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Shane Lavalette, photographer, independent publisher and director of Light Work, is one of 111 artists, along with 12 organizations, to be awarded $3.168 million in funding from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in its 2018-19 grant cycle. The foundation’s average grant to…
Syracuse University Celebrates Seven Foundations Scholars
Foundations is a workshop series that introduces Syracuse University students to essential life-skills. The Foundations Scholarship program started in fall 2017 as a cross-campus collaboration of schools/colleges and departments, including the Office of Professional and Career Development, the Office of Financial Literacy and…
Celebrate the Earth at Earthfest
Earthfest is Sunday, April 28, from noon to 4 p.m. in the Thornden Park Amphitheater. The sustainability-themed music and arts festival celebrates Earth Day, sustainability on the Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) campuses, and…
Supreme Court Scholar Thomas Keck Named a 2019 Carnegie Fellow
Thomas M. Keck, professor of political science and the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics in the Maxwell School, has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. As recipients of the so-called “brainy award,” each Carnegie Fellow…
Anthropology Professor Hans Buechler Marks 50 Years of Service
Hans Buechler is an anthropologist at heart. He is fascinated by people and their stories—where they come from, what they do in their working lives and how it shapes their world view. When Syracuse University honored the Maxwell School anthropology…