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Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day to Be Held Sept. 17 at the JMA Wireless Dome
Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity will celebrate its faculty and staff with $10 football tickets for the Saturday, Sept. 17, game at the JMA Dome when the Orange take on Purdue at noon. Faculty and staff and their guests are invited to the…
Get to Know New Women’s Volleyball Coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam on the ‘’Cuse Conversations’ Podcast
The Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity women’s volleyball team made its 2022 debut over the weekend at the Charlotte Invitational in Charlotte, North Carolina, and for the first time in more than a decade, the Orange have a new head coach: Bakeer Ganesharatnam,…
Falk Professor Mary E. Graham Named New Faculty Athletic Representative
Mary E. Graham, professor of sport management in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and an affiliated faculty in the Whitman School of Management, has been named Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity’s new faculty athletic representative (FAR), a critical role ensuring…
Former Football Player David Tate Inspires Fellow Alumni With $1M Gift Commitment
One of David Tate’s first memories of Â鶹ƵµÀfootball is what has endeared the team to him the most. Entering into the program as a freshman in 1972, Tate says coach Ben Schwartzwalder’s first direction to the newcomers wasn’t on…
Â鶹ƵµÀAthletics Celebrates Second-Highest Fundraising Year
The ’Cuse Athletics Fund (’CAF) recorded its second-highest fundraising year during the 2021-22 fiscal year that concluded on June 30. More than 9,700 donors contributed $29.1 million, representing a 52% increase in funds from the previous year and drawing the…
Felisha Legette-Jack ’89 Named a Grand Marshal for Syracuse’s Victory Parade Commemorating Juneteenth
Felisha Legette-Jack ’89, the former Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity women’s basketball standout and current head women’s basketball coach, will serve as one of two grand marshals during Saturday’s Victory Parade, commemorating the Juneteenth (June 19th) federal holiday and the emancipation of enslaved African…
Father’s Day Podcast and Q&A With Dino Babers, Head Football Coach
On the football field, Dino Babers is known as the passionate head coach of the Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity football team, the charismatic leader who has delivered his share of emotional pre- and post-game speeches. But beyond the wins, beyond his ability…
Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity, JMA Wireless Announce Naming Rights Partnership, Usher in the JMA Wireless Dome Era
Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity and JMA Wireless (JMA) today announced a 10-year partnership for naming rights of the University’s iconic on-campus stadium. For the first time since the venue opened its doors in 1980, the stadium will have a new name, only…
4 Years Unlike Anything Else: Reflecting on Life on the Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity Campus
When the members of the Class of 2022 walked onto the Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity campus in the fall of 2018, none of them could predict the unprecedented journey that awaited them over the next four years. An unknown, fast-spreading global health…
She Shoots, She Scores: Sarah Thompson’s ‘Sticks Together’ Project Brings Street Hockey to Children in Argentina
On Comfrey Crescent in Orléans, a suburb of Ottawa, there was one thing that always brought the children out of their yards and houses and onto the street. No, not the ice cream truck. Instead, Sarah Thompson would come out…