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Beyond the Badge: DPS Officer Grateful for Opportunity to Support Black Reign Step Team as Advisor
As the library operations coordinator for the Department of Public Safety (DPS), Officer George Wazen believes that sincerity, compassion and understanding are the keys to successfully engaging with the students he oversees as part of the library student floor monitoring…
Residential Community Safety Officer Clarise Shelby-Coleman Encourages Kids With Autism to ‘Show Them How Smart You Are’ Through Advocacy Work
When her son Chase was diagnosed with autism in the summer of 2005, Clarise Shelby-Coleman, who works in Campus Safety and Emergency Management Services as a residential community safety officer, searched for community support and resources that would empower her…
Highlight the Heroes Part 3: Staff Members Display Ingenuity, Determination, Teamwork in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic
As the novel coronavirus took hold in the United States and locally over a year ago, many members of the campus community had to reimagine countless processes, solve new and challenging problems, work together in ways previously unheard of and…
Highlight the Heroes Part 2: Staff Members Display Ingenuity, Determination, Teamwork in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic
As the novel coronavirus took hold in the United States and locally nearly a year ago, many members of the campus community had to reimagine countless processes, solve new and challenging problems, work together in ways previously unheard of, and…
Missy Mathis-Hanlon Offers an Empathetic Ear, Helps Connect Families With Resources
Missy Mathis-Hanlon’s first day in what was previously called the Parents Office was on Sept. 11, 2001. Social media sites like Facebook did not exist yet, and news about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was not…
A Passion for Leadership and Teamwork: Custodial Manager Annette Statum
Annette Statum vividly recalls the hot summer day in 1994 when she walked down Ainsley Drive to the Commissary because she’d heard the University was hiring. Busy raising her children at the time, Statum was looking for part-time work. After…
Access Counselor Ensures Students with Disabilities Have Proper Accommodations for Academic Success
As someone born with significant hearing loss, Michael Mazzaroppi G’14 says it was inevitable that he would become an advocate for others with disabilities. After working abroad at a school for the Deaf and an agency for the Deaf, and…
Melanie Domanico Uses Her Personal Experience and Empathy to Keep Employees Working
Melanie Domanico is an equal opportunity and accommodations specialist with the Office of Disability Access and Inclusion. When faced with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities—like breathing, walking, seeing or hearing—Syracuse University…
Sarah Workman’s Role Helps Humanities Professors Across Campus
As assistant director for proposal development, Sarah Workman applies her academic background to help Syracuse University humanities faculty develop research proposals and find funding and support to make their ideas a reality. Workman, whose position is shared between the Office…
Barnes Center Staff Therapist Helps Students Gain Insight Through Mindfulness
Mansi Brat teaches students how to embrace the present moment and find serenity with one’s thoughts—an often elusive ideal to grasp in the anxieties of today’s perfectionism-driven world. A staff therapist with the Barnes Center at The Arch and facilitator…