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Arts & Culture

Sascha Scott Receives Smithsonian American Art Museum Award for Essay on Decolonizing U.S. Art History

Monday, June 28, 2021, By News Staff

Sascha Scott, associate professor and director of art history graduate studies, is a recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s prestigious Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai’i? Decolonizing the History of American Modernism,” which appeared in…

The Washington Post

Newhouse Pop Culture Professor Says ‘Common Ground Is Gone’ On TV

Saturday, June 26, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

Is the Golden Age of television gone? A fractured society means there’s less common ground for universally loved programming. Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of radio, television and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in…

STEM

Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry and Former Faculty Member, Dies at 85

Friday, June 25, 2021, By News Staff

Nobel Laureate Ei-ichi Negishi, a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1972-79, died June 6 at age 85. A graduate of the University of Tokyo and the University of Pennsylvania, Negishi…

The Columbus Dispatch

Restructuring Could Help Struggling Malls Find Long-Term Success

Friday, June 25, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

In this Columbus Dispatch business article about a mall bankruptcy filing, Whitman School adjunct faculty member and retail expert Shelley Kohan talks about the importance of restructuring finances for long-term success. Kohan says: “Keep in mind that bankruptcies allow businesses…

Media Tip Sheets

To Tackle Veteran PTSD, Get to People Before They Join the Military

Thursday, June 24, 2021, By News Staff

June 27 is annually recognized as PTSD Awareness Day, a yearly event to help raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder. It also serves as a reminder that treatments, resources and help are available for those experiencing it and for caregivers….

Business & Economy

Selim Dangoor ’23 and Sandhya Iyer ’20 Selected for Prestigious Blackstone LaunchPad Fellowships

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University student startups Selim Dangoor ’23, founder of MUNCH Jerky, and Sandhya Iyer ’20, CEO of Geek Girl Careers, have been selected for the summer 2021 cohort of the Blackstone LaunchPad Fellowship. Both are active members of the LaunchPad…

Health & Society

97% of Faculty, Benefits-Eligible Staff and Nearly 90% of Students Fully Compliant with University’s COVID Vaccine Requirements

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Since the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in Central New York in March 2020, Syracuse University students, faculty and staff have demonstrated a tremendous commitment to the health and safety of the campus and Syracuse communities. That commitment to public health…

Campus & Community

Disability External Review Concludes with Phase Two Recommendations

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Disability External Review Committee has submitted its final report to Chancellor Kent Syverud, who has indicated his support for the implementation of the committee’s Phase Two recommendations beginning immediately. Due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture Remembers Former Career Services Director Connie Caldwell

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Connie Caldwell, former director of Career Services in the School of Architecture, died on June 11 at her home in Cazenovia. She was 65. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Caldwell moved to Nashua, New Hampshire, as a teen and later…

Arts & Culture

Light Work’s Urban Video Project Launches Summer Review 2021 With Award-Winning Filmmaker Ephraim Asili

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, By Cjala Surratt

Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce “UVP Summer Review 2021: Inflection Points,” featuring pieces from the 2020-21 programming year, which takes its title from a mathematical term that describes the point in a curve at which a change…