Up to 100 new community engagement service positions tutoring children and teens in Syracuse City School District and other area schools have been made possible by a new grant to the Shaw Center Syracuse University Literacy Corps program.
Shaw Center Stories
Leadership Intern Iona Volynets Named a 2024 Marshall Scholar
Iona Volynets, a senior majoring in history and international relations in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2024 Marshall Scholar.
Meaningful Partnership: An Intersection of Collaboration and Service Learning
The Community Design Studio is a unique course offered in collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) School of Design, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) Department of Sustainable Resources Management, and the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public & Community Service (Shaw Center). In this course, students go into the community and work with local nonprofit organizations to redesign existing spaces through beneficial design solutions. Continue Reading
Empowering Curiosity: Shaw Center Alumna Rachel Vicente Facilitates DEIA Workshop
On Friday, November 11, DEIA consultant and strategist Rachel Vicente ’12 hosted DEIA Workshop: Shifting the Balance in collaboration with the Mary Ann Shaw Center. Continue Reading
Balancing the Books Celebrating 25 Years of Tutoring and Literacy Achievements
Launching its 25th year, Balancing the Books (BTB) is celebrating a milestone reflective of substantial achievement as a long-running literacy initiative.
SUVO Fundraising as Part of Student Organization Challenge
The Syracuse University Volunteer Organization (SUVO) has been selected to be one of fifteen student organizations to compete in the Student Organization Challenge!
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Leadership Intern Iona Volynets Selected as 2023 Truman Scholar
Syracuse University junior Iona Volynets has been named as a 2023 recipient of the Truman Scholarship.
Volynets, of Washington, D.C., is a history and international relations major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences with a museum studies minor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, a Coronat Scholar and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. In October 2022, Volynets was named as one of three Syracuse recipients of the Voyager Scholarship: the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, a new award for juniors committed to public service funded by the Obama Foundation.
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2023 Syracuse Scholars include Leadership Intern Grace Haas and volunteer Adam Klinger
Twelve seniors have been named as the 2023 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor the University bestows.
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Shaw Center Alumnus Anwar Nasir ’06 to Deliver 2023 VPA Convocation Address
Arts management leader Anwar Nasir ’06 will deliver the keynote address to bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at their Convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the JMA Wireless Dome.
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Zoe Rennock ’24 Partners With Bioengineering as an Inclusive Education Consultant through PIE
Group projects are critical to the applied learning that takes places across the University campus, and not least to the Bioengineering Capstone Design course led by Pun To (Douglas) Yung, associate teaching professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Yung’s course asks student teams to develop real-world solutions to biomedical challenges, taking them from concept through prototype design. It can be a challenging environment.
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