Smith Earns Top Honors in Business Plan Competition

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Smith Earns Top Honors in Business Plan Competition Congratulations to Amanda Smith, a senior Honors student majoring in Graphic Design and minoring in Information Technology, Design and Startups. Smith is one of three Syracuse LaunchPad teams winning top honors in the New York Business Plan Competition. Smith found Sus Bots, and placed third place in…

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Matt Cufari ’23 Named Astronaut Scholar

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Matt Cufari Named 22-23 Astronaut Scholar Founded by the Mercury 7 astronauts, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation awards scholarships to students who are pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering or mathematics and plan to pursue research or advance their field. Honors student Matt Cufari, a senior physics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and…

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Honors Students Present at Baseball Hall of Fame

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Honors Students Present at Baseball Hall of Fame This story is written by Honors student MP Geiss and slightly edited by Honors. In June, four Honors students, Mira Berenbaum ’23, Caitlyn Pritchard ’23, MP Geiss ’23, and Philip Galati ‘24 presented their research at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture at the National…

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Tarley’s Research Leads her to Hopkins for MPH

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Tarley’s Research Leads her to Hopkins for MPH Honors alum Dorbor Tarley ’22, Human Development and Family Science graduate, utilized her thesis opportunity to explore inequity in maternal health care, with the intention that her findings would help improve care for Black women. Dorbor’s researched focused on the positive impact of community-oriented health centers. With…

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Faculty Create Vitality in Life of Honors Community

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Faculty Create Vitality in Life of Honors Community The Honors program takes proud pause to recognize the endless vitality and energy of its faculty. The spring semester was packed with an abundance of faculty achievements and adventures involving Patricia Burak, George Theoharis, Jim Watts, Margaret Thompson, and Gareth Fisher. Patricia Burak, part-time instructor of Russian…

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2022 Thesis Prize Winners Announced

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2022 Thesis Prize Winners Announced The Honors program recently hosted its annual Thesis Presentation Day, during which nearly 170 graduates shared their work. In their projects, a significant number of students conceptualized a better humanity—revitalizing Syracuse’s 15th ward, police reform, the use of biofuels, more responsible journalism, machine learning, “Happiness without Wall Street,” how transfer…

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Can Responsible Journalism Shape Climate Change?

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Can Responsible Journalism Shape Climate Change? For his Honors thesis, Gaurav Shetty (journalism and international relations double major) is studying how the power of journalism can produce clarity in our understanding of climate change, and shape positive outcomes. Historically, climate change has proven challenging for journalists, Shetty says, because it lacks the immediacy that drives…

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A Day at the MET

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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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