A Joyful Convocation Celebrates Honors Graduates

Convocation in Hendricks Chapel

A Joyful Convocation Celebrates Honors Graduates Members of the Honors community, Honors core faculty, esteemed deans and family and friends happily celebrated the graduation of nearly 170 Honors graduates in the class of 2022 on Friday, May 13th at the annual Honors Convocation in Hendricks Chapel. The graduates individually crossed the stage as their thesis…

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Burak Receives Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award

Patricia Burak portrait

Burak Receives Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award The Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award is conferred on individual students, faculty or staff who—by virtue of extraordinary hard work, good values and commitment to excellence—embody the best of Syracuse University. This year’s recipients are Patricia Burak, part-time instructor of Russian literature in the College of Arts and Sciences and…

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Theoharis Examines School Equity, Pandemic Parenting

portrait George Theoharis

Theoharis Examines School Equity, Pandemic Parenting Honors Core Faculty George Theoharis is co-editor with Rebecca Lowenhaupt of the recently published book, Parenting in the Pandemic: The collision of school, work, and life at home, published by Information Age Press, Scottsdale, AZ. The edited volume consists of first-person essays written by education professors from around the…

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A Day at the MET

Honors students in front of Met

Honors Class Visits MET Professor Jim Watts and students in the Honors class Writing, Scripture Law visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City in early April. Students have been studying the invention of ancient writing systems and the use of normative written texts in the history of economic administration, religion, and…

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Bellot, Geiss Named 2023 Senior Class Marshalls

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Bellot, Geiss Named 2023 Senior Class Marshalls Honors students Simone Bellot (communication science & disorders, neuroscience) and Michael “MP” Geiss (policy studies, physics) will represent their graduating class and lead the student procession during the 2023 Commencement ceremony. Throughout their senior year, Bellot and Geiss will serve as the all-University representatives for the Class of…

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Liptrap Named 2022 NOAA-Hollings Scholar

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Liptrap Named 2022 NOAA-Hollings Scholar Emma Liptrap, a sophomore civil engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) is a recipient of a 2022 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship. Named for Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings of South Carolina, the prestigious award provides tuition support ($9,500 per year)…

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Celebrating Ukrainian Culture and Heritage

Pat Burak with Ukrainian Student Association

Celebrating Ukrainian Culture and Heritage Professor Patricia Burak, Honors faculty and faculty advisor for the university’s Ukrainian student organization, presented aspects of Ukrainian culture with students at the annual “Cultures on the Quad” event hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. The students presented the art of decorating Ukrainian Easter eggs (“pysanky”) and…

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Social Differences Symposium Examines Belonging

Portrait, Giselle Marcus

Social Differences Symposium Examines Belonging The Honors program recently co-hosted the first annual Social Differences, Social Justice Symposium. Content experts explored themes of equity, social justice, and global transformation in this robust symposium hosted at Whitman. Gisele Marcus ’89, Professor of Practice–Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St.…

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Film Screening + Storytelling Workshop

African American couple smartly dressed pose before a shop window

“A Blueprint for Re-renewal”  Wednesday, April 13th | The Dunbar Center | 5:30-7:30 PM What is happening to the public housing surrounding the I-81 highway? Are resident voices being represented as future plans quickly move forward? Who stands to benefit from the conversion of public housing to mixed-income housing? And who stands to suffer? These questions and…

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Series features Prof. Calvar’s Original Composition

Portrait Prof Calvar

Series features Prof. Calvar’s Original Composition Hendrick’s Chapel’s “Music and Message” series is featuring four world premiere performances this spring semester. Among the premieres, on Thursday, March 10th there will be a performance of “Mass of Reconciliation” for choir and jazz/funk band. This piece was composed by Honors core faculty José “Peppie” Calvar, associate professor…

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