Campus & Community
COVID-19 Update: Spring 2021 Underway, Important Reminders to Stay Healthy and Safe
Dear Students, Families, Faculty and Staff: Welcome back to campus and to the Spring 2021 academic semester! As the new semester gets underway, I am writing to share some important information. First, however, I want to say thank you to…
From the Testing Center to Your Inbox: How COVID-19 Samples Get Analyzed
As Syracuse University gears up to double or triple the number of COVID-19 screening tests in the spring semester, the University’s Public Health Team had to do more than reconfigure the Stadium Testing Center. To get results from the stadium…
Voices Matter: Why You Need to Talk About Race
Syracuse University’s Orange Academy-Online will offer Voices Matter: Why You Need to Talk About Race, a six-week interactive online workshop, from March 15-April 23, 2021. The virtual course will meet weekly on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8 p.m. ET. A limited…
Chancellor Kent Syverud Delivers 2021 Winter Message to the University Community
Chancellor Kent Syverud shared his 2021 Winter Message to the University Community in a virtual message, recorded in the K.G. Tan Auditorium in the National Veterans Resource Center at the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Building at Syracuse University. Below…
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….
Ash Wednesday Schedule Announced
Ash Wednesday is Feb. 17, marking the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. Lent is a 40-day period of reflection that guides people of Christian faith to the “Triduum,” or Sacred Three Days, that begins on the evening of…
New Future Professors Fellowship Program Seeking Applicants
The Office of Academic Affairs has announced a new program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering the professoriate. The Syracuse University Future Professors Fellowship Program seeks to award five fellowships annually to talented postdoctoral scholars in any…
Reminder: Chancellor’s 2021 Winter Message to Be Shared Campuswide at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9
As a reminder, Chancellor Kent Syverud’s 2021 Winter Message to the University Community will be shared via email on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 3:30 p.m. The Chancellor’s message will be captioned for accessibility. The transcript and full video will be…
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…