Alumni
Inside the Jewelry Box with Laura Marsolek ’13, G’15
Inside the Jewelry Box with Laura Marsolek ’13, G’15 Honors alumna, Laura Marsolek ’13 will be hosting a master class on jewelry making on Friday October 29, as part of the Orange Central 2021 programming. Laura is a metalsmith, gemologist, and art historian who currently works in the fine jewelry department of a Southern auction…
Read MoreSerena Omo-Lamai ’20 Shares Message With Fellow Graduates
Serena Omo-Lamai ’20 Shares Message With Fellow Graduates Honors alum and 2020 Senior Class Marshal, Serena Omo-Lamai ’20 addressed the Class of 2020 during Commencement on Sunday, Sept. 19, in the stadium. She was also a 2020 University Scholar, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. Omo-Lamai, who is from Lagos, Nigeria, referenced an…
Read MoreHonors Faculty Moderate Newhouse Discussions
Honors Faculty Moderate Newhouse Discussions Honors core faculty Melissa Chessher, interim associate dean for inclusivity, diversity, equity and accessibility, moderates the discussion, “Storytelling and Identity: Capturing Black and Brown Excellence,” on September 10 at noon, Newhouse 3, Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. Featured on the panel are Angela Bundrant ’89, executive vice president, Rogers & Cowan PMK;…
Read MoreShearn (’19) awarded U.S. Embassy grant
Honors Alum Nathan Shearn, a 2020 Fulbright recipient, earned a grant from the U.S. Embassy (affiliated with Minsk State Linguistic University in Belarus) to lead weekly workshops for teachers and professors. Topics included cultural diversity, strategies for different learning styles, and the educational system in the U.S.. Shearn’s original Fulbright appointment was to teach English…
Read MoreGormley ’20 earns Clio Shortlist award
Newhouse students, including Honors alum Olivia Gormley, took home five Clio Awards this year, the most in school history. Olivia, copywriter, and Sam Luo, ’21, were awarded a Shortlist award for their digital campaign “Greenscreen” for Connect4Climate. Greenscreen is a conceptual Amazon search filter that prioritizes eco-friendly products in the search results. See full story…
Read MoreHonors Alumni Win Major Awards
Honors Alumni Win Major Awards The Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising worked with many Honors alumni this academic year. Santita Ebangwese (’19 ‘G20) and Emma Ettinger (’18) received funding to earn master’s degrees abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Santita is concluding the first year of a two-year master’s program in life sciences…
Read MoreGreetings from the Director
Greetings from the Director To the Community of Honors Program Alumni, We began the spring semester in early January. I will always remember when a small group of students came together on Zoom to take part in the Winter Thesis Boot Camp. It was freezing in Syracuse. The students were quiet, somber, and resolved. At…
Read MoreRace, Space and the Environment Project
The Newhouse School will host artists, scholars, technologists and community leaders from Syracuse and South Africa for a virtual conversation hosted by Ken Harper, director of the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement. The discussion will investigate the intersections of race and the environment and, specifically, the impacts of current environmental crises on marginalized populations and what it means…
Read MoreHonors alum Laura Marsolek ’13 featured on PBS Postcards Series
Honors alum Laura Marsolek ’13 featured on PBS Postcards Series Laura Marsolek (BA, Fine Arts, 2013; MA, Italian Renaissance Art History, 2015; Luce Scholar, 2018-2019) shares her expertise in jewelry making and her knowledge of global art histories in the PBS Postcards series. Laura has studied the important contributions of jewelry to diverse cultures and has traveled to Florence (Italy), Kosovo,…
Read MoreFan Fiction – Past, Present, and Future
Religion department and Honors program professor Gareth Fisher recently participated in an episode of the podcast series “Figuring out Fanfiction” led by Honors alumna Lianza Reyes (’20). Prof. Fisher drew on his experience teaching the popular Honors seminar “Fantasy and Social Values” to discuss how fan fiction has been part of human literary expression since…
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