Honors Community Examines Conflict & Loss

Honors Seminars Examine Conflict & Loss Refugee Communities in SyracuseAli Modabber, Immigration Legal Services Manager, Refugee Resettlement Services, was the guest speaker in Professor Roula Jneid’s course, Refugee Communities in Syracuse. The discussion focused on current policy proposals to help protected parolees gain citizenship. After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, a fundamentalist religious group, the…

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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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Madison Tyler Named 2022 Beinecke Scholar

Madison Tyler - 2022 Beinecke Scholar

Madison Tyler Named 2022 Beinecke Scholar Madison Tyler ’23, a junior double major in African American studies and English (film and screen studies track) in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a recipient of a 2022 Beinecke Scholarship. The award provides graduate funding and mentorship for juniors in the arts, humanities or social sciences.…

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Coffee + Donuts Destress Event

Donut Destress Event flyer, all text in blog post

Join Honors for Coffee and Donuts Destress Event Wednesday, April 13th 9:30am – 11:30am Catered by Glazed & Confused *vegan, non-dairy, and gluten free options included! Bowne Hall Atrium

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Maggie Sardino Receives Fulbright Award

Maggie Sardino

Maggie Sardino Receives Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink Program Award Honors junior, Maggie Sardino, is the recipient of a 2022 award through the Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink Program. Sardino is a writing and rhetoric major in the College of Arts and Sciences and citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School. The  Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink…

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Benjamin and Williams Named PPIA Fellows

2022 PPIA Fellows

Benjamin and Williams Named 2022 PPIA Fellows Two Honors juniors, Maya Benjamin and Hailey Williams, are among the four Syracuse University students who have been selected to participate in the highly competitive Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) junior summer institutes. PPIA fellows are rising seniors who are committed to pursuing a master’s degree in…

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Matthew Cufari and Ellen Jorgensen are 2022 Goldwater Scholars

2022 Goldwater Scholars

Matthew Cufari and Ellen Jorgensen are 2022 Goldwater Scholars Honors juniors, Matthew Cufari and Ellen Jorgensen, are among the three Syracuse University students who have been selected for the 2022 Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship awarded in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence…

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Nine Honors Seniors Named 2022 University Scholars

2022 Syracuse University Scholars

Nine Honors Seniors Named 2022 University Scholars Nine Honors students are among the twelve seniors who have been named as the 2022 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. The Honors seniors include: Erik Bakken, an architecture major in the School of Architecture; Julia Chou, an architecture major in the School…

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Alum Speaks to Honors Class

portrait of Eli

Pulitzer Prize-winning Alum Speaks to Honors Class Honors students in Prof. Margaret Thompson’s spring HNR 360 White Nationalism/Right Populism in Modern America class read the book, Rising out of Hatred by Eli Saslow and had a chance to speak with the author. Saslow, SU Class of 2004, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington…

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