Apply to Present at ACC Meeting of the Minds

Every year, a group of six undergraduates from Syracuse join students from the 14 other institutions in the ACC to showcase their work, learn from peers at other colleges and universities, and network among scholars and students at the conference. Read more and consider traveling with the ACC team!

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Honors Senior, Kyle Rosenblum, is Named University’s First Schwarzman Scholar

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Honors senior, Kyle Rosenblum, a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. He is Syracuse University’s first Schwarzman Scholar. Rosenblum, who is also a 2020 Class Marshal,…

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Performing Identities Across Cultures

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Performing Identities Across Cultures Call for Performance Proposals $500 AWARD FOR EACH SELECTED PERFORMANCE PICS invites proposals for 15-minute performances, highlighting social justice, diversity, and inclusivity, in any language on the topic “WE ARE ORANGE.” What does being orange mean to you? See PICS website and attached poster for more details and to apply:  http://thecollege.syr.edu/research/language-matters/pics.html  Performances will take…

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Survival and Insecurity

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Survival and Insecurity: A Personal History of Being Rohingya in Yangon, Myanmar As a well-educated Rohingya woman whose parents moved to Yangon as children, Kyaw Thein will share her personal story of coming to adulthood in the midst of discrimination and growing anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiment. The current crisis has led her to explore her family’s history and reflect on her own experiences…

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Welcome and Advice for Honors First Year Students!

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The beginning of freshman year is almost here, and the Renée Crown University Honors Program is honored to have you. As you start begin this chapter chapter of your life, you’ll have to face new challenges and adapt to a whole new environment. There is an entire network of people excited to meet and help…

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Honors Students named as 2019 – 20 Remembrance Scholars

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Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2019-20 Remembrance Scholars. Fifteen of these newly named scholars are Honors students. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over…

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Omo-Lamai, Rosenblum Named Class of 2020 Senior Class Marshals

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Honors juniors,  Serena Omo Lamai and Kyle Rosenblum,  have been named 2020 Senior Class Marshals. As Senior Class Marshals, Omo-Lamai and Rosenblum will represent and lead their class during Syracuse University’s 166th Commencement ceremony. Honors junior, Emerson Womble, majoring in citizenship and civic engagement, economics and political science and minoring in Spanish in the College of…

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Honors students Receive Fulbright UK Summer Institute Grants to Study Abroad this Summer

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  Honors students Receive Fulbright UK Summer Institute Grants to Study Abroad this Summer Two honors students, Alaina Marra and Brittney Loper,  are among the four Syracuse University students  who have been named as student cultural ambassadors through the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s UK Summer Institute program.  Marra, a freshman in the School of Architecture, will…

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