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Getting to Know: Assistant Residence Life Director George Athanas
When George Athanas began working at the University nearly a decade ago, he was happy to discover the Hendricks Chapel Quilters, a group of students, faculty, staff and community members who meet weekly to create quilts for donation to area…
Getting to Know: Assistant Provost for Equity and Inclusion Patricia L. Stith
When Patricia Stith traveled with her husband, Melvin, to their undergraduate alma mater at the end of March, she knew they were going to be honored as two among a group of major donors to Norfolk State University in Virginia….
Getting to Know: Psychiatric Nurse-Practitioner Heidi Kinnally
As a psychiatric nurse-practitioner, Heidi Kinnally has had a lot of experience with combat veterans and other populations. But when she saw an ad for a psychiatric nurse-practitioner in the Health Center at Syracuse University, she realized the college student…
Getting to Know: Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, Interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs
Syracuse University’s interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz may be new to the position, but she’s certainly not new to the University. Her career path started at SU in the 1980s, and was honed…
Getting to Know: Ronald J. Taylor ’15
Ronald J. Taylor ’15 took to the stage at this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in the Carrier Dome and issued a challenge to students in a searing monologue based on King’s “Mountaintop” speech. Taylor encouraged students to find…
Getting to Know: Amanda Claypool, a Champion for Dialogue on Divisive Issues
Amanda Claypool remembers the day the Twin Towers fell and the day U.S. warplanes bombed Baghdad as if it were yesterday. Those events shaped her academic career at Syracuse University, led her on a solo journey to Palestine’s West Bank…
Getting to Know: Cultural anthropologist Cecilia Van Hollen
While studying the lives of women living with HIV in South Asia, Maxwell School associate professor Cecilia Van Hollen recalls speaking with a young mother in Tamil Nadu, the southeastern state in India. “When neighbors ask me why I am…