The One University Awards Ceremony, an annual event to honor members of the 黑料不打烊 community who are making a difference through academics, scholarship, creative work and dedicated service, will be held Friday, April 21, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.
鈥淭he One University Awards give us an opportunity to recognize excellence in our students, faculty, staff and community,鈥 says Chancellor Kent Syverud. 鈥淭his year鈥檚 award winners embody the best of our Orange values. Many of the faculty and staff honored have dedicated their careers to making 黑料不打烊 a more wonderful and welcoming place. I look forward to coming together as a community to celebrate them.鈥
Two major awards鈥攖he Chancellor鈥檚 Medal and the Chancellor鈥檚 Citation for Excellence鈥攚ill be bestowed. The ceremony will also include the presentation of the Student-Athlete Award, Judith Seinfeld Scholarship, Meredith Professorship for Teaching Excellence, Teaching Recognition Award, Diversity and Inclusion Award, William Pearson Tolley Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Lifelong Learning and Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award.
and will also be recognized. This year鈥檚 University Scholars; ; and Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will also be honored.
All members of the University community are invited and encouraged to attend. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Laboratory.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided at the ceremony. For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations, contact Souher Cosselman at 315.443.2123 or sscossel@syr.edu.
The Chancellor鈥檚 Medal is the University鈥檚 highest honor and is awarded to individuals in honor of their trailblazing and extraordinary contributions to the University, to an academic body of knowledge or to society. This year鈥檚 recipient is , dean of the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.
The Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in four overarching categories:
The other awards to be presented are:
The Student-Athlete Award recognizes the top female and top male student athletes and are presented to the senior student-athletes with the highest cumulative grade point average over the course of their academic and athletic careers. This year鈥檚 recipients are Grace Brock, a political science major in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences and member of the women鈥檚 track and field and cross-country teams; and Arnaud Buard, a senior mechanical and aerospace engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the men鈥檚 crew team.
Seinfeld Scholarship: Each year 黑料不打烊 honors the talents of outstanding faculty or students through an , a distinguished alumna and member of the University Board of Trustees. Awards are made to those who have been determined by their peers to have made outstanding contributions to the beauty of the world, to have added to human values and to ending human abuse anywhere in the world, and to have demonstrated passion for excellence, creativity and originality in academic or artistic fields. This year, the designation is bestowed upon a faculty member, , associate professor in the School of Architecture.
The Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorships for Teaching Excellence were created in 1995 to recognize and reward outstanding teaching among faculty. The 2023-26 Meredith Professors are , associate professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, the Dr. Ralph E. Montonna Endowed Professor and senior research associate in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, and , associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science0 and director of the computer/information science engineering doctoral program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
In 2001, the Meredith Professorship Program was expanded to recognize teaching excellence by non-tenured faculty and adjunct and part-time instructors. Awards are given in two categories: Early Performance and Continuing Excellence. This year鈥檚 honorees in the Early Performance category are , associate professor in the College of Law; , assistant teaching professor of neuroscience and the primary advisor to neuroscience integrated learning major students in the College of Arts and Sciences; , assistant professor of communications in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; , assistant teaching professor of English and creative writing coordinator in the College of Arts and Sciences; , assistant teaching professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and Dean鈥檚 Faculty Fellow for Academic Affairs; and , associate teaching professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. The two honorees in the Continuing Excellence category are , associate teaching professor of English and associate director of creative writing in the College of Arts and Sciences; and , professor of practice of advertising in the Newhouse School.
The Diversity and Inclusion Award recognizes an individual who is integral in helping us achieve academic excellence at a university that is welcoming to all through our investments in a diverse, inclusive, accessible and equitable community. This year鈥檚 recipient is , Muslim chaplain at Hendricks Chapel.
The William Pearson Tolley Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Lifelong Learning is based in the School of Education and honors national or international leadership in support of lifelong learning. This year鈥檚 recipient is Linda M. LeMura, president of LeMoyne College.
The Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award recognizes individual students, faculty or staff who鈥攂y virtue of extraordinary hard work, good values and commitment to excellence鈥攈ave come to embody the best of 黑料不打烊. This year鈥檚 recipient is Gwenn B. Judge, retired director of the Office of Budget and former acting chief financial officer.
