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Future Medical Doctors Devoted to Health Equity
Mohamed Khan ’22 is preparing for medical school by integrating natural and social sciences as a double major in public health and history. “As a first-generation college student and student of color, the most important thing I want to do…
Biology Major Gains Hands-On Experience With Endangered Animals in Costa Rica
From an early age, Leonardo Rivera ’22 had a fondness for animals and wildlife conservation. Growing up in tropical Puerto Rico, the biology major on a pre-veterinary track remembers investigating the habits of hermit crabs in the sand, watching as…
Food and Social Justice Advocate Avalon Gupta VerWiebe Named First Recipient of the Evan Weissman Scholarship
Avalon Gupta VerWiebe, a food studies graduate student in the Falk College, is the first to receive the Evan Weissman Scholarship, a newly created scholarship fund honoring the late Professor Weissman that supports food studies graduate students. Gupta VerWiebe’s personal…
Persistence During Pandemic Leads Fulbrighter to Bulgaria
Like many 2019 graduates, Nathan Shearn’s plans were disrupted when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After earning his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and graduating with honors from the Renée Crown…
Aerospace Engineering Senior Selected for National Ammon S. Andes Award
Aerospace engineering senior Daniel Oluwalana ’21 has been selected as the 2021 Ammon S. Andes National Award Winner from the national aerospace engineering honor society, Sigma Gamma Tau. The award is highly competitive and designed to recognize the top undergraduate…
Curating the Bigger Picture: Evan Starling-Davis Approaches Literacy from Multiple Entry Points
Evan Starling-Davis is a narrative artist, curator and producer. More precisely, he names himself a digital-age “griot”—a term used for traveling poets, musicians and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history derived from the African diaspora’s culture and history….
Syracuse University Diploma Symbolizes Decades of Sacrifice and Determination
Katherine O’Neil Veley graduated from Syracuse University in 2020 with a degree in creative leadership from University College (UC). Like the thousands of other students in the Class of 2020, Veley waited with excitement and anticipation for the day she…
Talking Trash With Laura Markley, Waste and Plastics Researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Laura Markley is a scientist and a communicator who has been weaving these two skillsets together throughout her academic career. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), Markley…
Student Gets Dose of ‘Hope, Optimism and Relief’ with COVID-19 Vaccine
Louis Smith was thrilled when he was named valedictorian of his class at Mynderse Academy in Seneca Falls, about 50 miles west of Syracuse. A lifelong Syracuse University sports fan, Smith was ecstatic when he received his acceptance letter from…
‘Jeep Views’ Campaign Drives Home National ADDY Award for Creative Advertising Student, a First for Newhouse
Winning a national ADDY is a remarkable feat, and it takes tremendous skill to create a campaign worthy of national recognition. Mike Gaines ’20 did just that as a student in the Portfolio II course at Newhouse, winning a 2020…