Most students are lucky to have one Eureka moment during college. Cameron Taylor ’19, an economics major, has had two—proof that inspiration does not always strike, but can be cultivated.

Taylor has participated in two immersion programs in New York City, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences: the Winston Fisher Seminar and the curiously titled “From Arts & Sciences to Stocks & Finances.” Home to more than 40,000 Syracuse alumni, the Big Apple represents the ultimate in real-world learning for students such as him.

“What I learned from both trips was the necessity of a liberal arts education,” Taylor says. “Most employers prefer students with a broad, well-rounded education, instead of specialized training in one or two fields.”

It also dawned on Taylor that some technical skills can be learned on-the-job, whereas so-called “employability skills,” including critical thinking, creative problem solving and effective communication, are grounded in liberal arts training.

Sue Casson, director of career development and services in A&S, hears this a lot. Based in Advising and Career Services, she helps students such as Taylor “unwrap their degrees” and discover untapped potential.

Casson oversees a handful of A&S immersion programs, including “Bridge to Business” in New York City and “Discover Atlanta.” (“Hotlanta” also boasts thousands of Syracuse alumni.) Her goal is to increase students’ employability quotient, while helping them make the leap from passive to active learning. “These trips are like micro- internships—they’re a few days long and are usually paid for,” she says. “This way, students can focus on career exploration without worrying about money.” Zainab Sanni ’17, a dual major in international relations and music industry, says “Discover Atlanta” forced her out of her “shy zone.”

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FROMTHE DEAN

Dear Friends, The liberal arts can make you happy—that’s the gist of a new data-driven study by Richard Detweiler, president of the Great Lakes College Association, taking the academy by storm. Working with a sample of 1,000 college alumni (divided into groups 10, 20 and 40 years after graduation), Detweiler found that certain aspects of a liberal arts education, such as faculty-student mentoring, led to success in life. He also noted that liberal arts graduates were more likely to exhibit leadership, be viewed as ethical, appreciate arts and culture and lead meaningful lives. I, for one, cheer the findings, but they do not surprise me. Respect and personalized attention are central to student learning in A&S. Our commitment to fostering intense philosophical discussions—inside and outside the classroom, and at the margins of one’s area of study—has produced some of today’s greatest writers, artists, scientists and thinkers.

One-on-one mentoring also underscores various immersion experiences offered by Advising and Career Services. The subject of our cover story, these programs engage students in their own career exploration process. Not only do these programs speak to the power of a liberal arts education, but they also are a testament to the involvement of our friends and alumni, who help make these experiences possible. As one donor recently put it: “I give a lot to the College of Arts and Sciences, but I also get a lot in return.” Thank you for supporting A&S, and for instilling in students the values they need to lead happy, purposeful lives. Sincerely,

Karin Ruhlandt Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

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Her three-day trip included meetings with representatives from The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting and Google, to name a few. “The first day we got there, we had dinner with several alumni. It was such a big challenge for me,” she recalls. “By the end of the trip, I was talking to and networking with everyone.”

Sanni also credits “Discover Atlanta” for giving her the confidence to set up informational interviews during a semester in London. “I was surprised I could do that,” she adds. Indeed, immersion trips seem to offer something for everyone, regardless of experience or expertise. The Winston Fisher Seminar, for example, integrates business training with the skills and perspectives of the liberal arts. Now entering its 13th year, the weeklong program culminates with a business plan competition. Fisher ’96, a philosophy major turned real estate developer and philanthropist, founded the eponymous seminar. “My father [the late Richard L. Fisher] told me that college was a chance to learn to think critically and to articulate passions,” says Fisher, a member of the Syracuse Board of Trustees and A&S Board of Visitors. “These abilities are helpful in any profession you choose.” “Stocks & Finances” and “Bridge to Business”—which take place in the fall and spring, respectively—also provide opportunities for students to immerse themselves in Manhattan’s corporate culture. Host companies include JPMorgan Chase & Co., EY (Ernst & Young), Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley and The Goldman Sachs Group. “I enjoy seeing the individual culture of each workplace,” says Dante Scott ’19, an economics major and “Bridge to Business” alumnus. “It helps me tailor [my qualifications] to the direction I want to go.” Adds Matthew Ferranti ’17, a dual major in history and economics: “I love hearing about the success of alumni whose degrees are like mine. One of them offered me an internship, which was great.”

Sue Casson, director of career development and services, meets with a student.

Cover photo: Students display photographs from their immersion trips (clockwise from top): Matthew Ferranti ‘17, Spencer Stultz ‘17, Zainab Sanni ‘17 and Dante Scott ‘19.

STUDENTSPOTLIGHT

Lilly Teevens ’17, an economics major in A&S and Maxwell, has a job waiting for her at EY (formerly Ernst & Young), thanks to her involvement in an A&S immersion program.

Emily Francisco G’17, who is earning master’s degrees in art history (A&S) and museum studies (VPA), is the recipient of the Louise and Bernard Palitz Art Scholar Award. She is a

teaching assistant in the Department of Art and Music Histories, a curatorial intern in the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse and president of the George Fisk Comfort Society of Art History.

Theresa Moir Engelbrecht G’17, a dual master’s candidate in art history and museum studies, was a Palitz Scholar in 2015 and 2016. She recently curated an SUArt Galleries

exhibition titled “Taking Flight: Richard Koppe’s Works on Paper.”

Farrell Greenwald Brenner ’17, a dual major in women’s and gender studies in A&S and citizenship and civic engagement (CCE) in Maxwell, has published her first

collection of poetry, “Diatribe from the Library” (Headmistress Press, 2016).

Benjamin Uveges, a Ph.D. student in Earth sciences, represented Hungary in the European Lacrosse Championship in Budapest.

Kyra Azzato ’17, a political science major in A&S and Maxwell, is the first woman from the University—and one of the first in the nation—to enroll in the Army’s Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course. She plans to go to Army Ranger School.

Connor Jantz ’20, a political science major in A&S and Maxwell and a member of the Army ROTC, has been promoted to Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable in the

Boy Scouts of America.

Naomi Rivera Robles ’17, a dual major in biochemistry and neuroscience, received the Minority Undergraduate Internship Award from the American Diabetes Association.

She is using the award to continue her study of the “hunger hormone,” ghrelin.

Kenneth Morse (left) and Sidorela Doci ’16 (right), graduate students in the Auditory Electrophysiology Research Lab (supervised by Kathy R. Vander Werff, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders), won awards from the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association. Doci also was among a team of Vander Werff’s students recognized for their poster presentations by the American Academy of Audiology. Laura Porturas (left), a graduate student in biology, has been awarded research grants from Sigma Xi and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Maizy Ludden ’19 (right), a biology major, is a 2017 Goldwater Scholar. Both are members of Professor Kari Seagraves’ Lab in the Department of Biology, studying evolutionary ecology of species interactions. Anjana Pati, a junior majoring in psychology and neuroscience, is a senior class marshal for the University’s Class of 2018. Patrick Castle, a biotechnology major, is senior class marshal alternate.

Rachel Brown-Weinstock, a triple major in sociology, policy studies and CCE, and Nedda Sarshar, a triple major in writing and rhetoric, policy studies and CCE, are this year’s senior class marshals. José Marrero-Rosado, a dual major in biochemistry and anthropology, is the alternate.

More than half of this year’s Syracuse University Scholars (the University’s highest undergraduate honor) are A&S seniors. They are Farrell Greenwald Brenner, Rachel Brown-Weinstock, Hasmik Djoulakian, Anniya Gu, Bryan Sweeney, Jessica Toothaker and Soleil Young. Ten of the 12 awardees are members of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program in A&S.

Graduate students in the Department of Religion have received major research awards:

Julie Edelstein: The Bernard Tate Tamil Language Student Scholarship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)

Sara Swenson: The 2017 Albert Clark Award (for best graduate paper in religious studies) from the Theta Alpha Kappa honor society

Aarti Patel: A Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education

Mallory Hennigar: An AIIS Junior Fellowship and a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship

Wayne Franits is the University’s new Distinguished Professor of Art History. A scholar of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, he is completing a book about the Dutch genre and portrait painter Godefridus Schalcken.

George Saunders G’88, professor of English, has published his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo” (Random House, 2017), which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and is being made into a film. He also has

finished a TV screenplay adaptation for his short story “Sea Oak,” whose pilot has been greenlighted by Amazon.

Silvio Torres-Saillant, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, traveled to Cuba to judge and speak at the 58th edition of the Casa de las Américas Prize, one of Latin America’s oldest, most

prestigious literary competitions.

Eunjung Kim, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies, is the author of “Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Korea” (Duke University Press, 2017).

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of linguistics, is spending part of her research leave in Germany, supported by a Humboldt Foundation scholarship. She is the co-leader of a cross-linguistic project at the University of Cologne, studying partitive constructions in Turkic and Mongolian languages. Kornfilt also belongs to other cross-linguistic projects in Berlin, where she is researching heritage languages and clausal nominalizations at Humboldt University and the Center for General Linguistics, respectively.

Krista Kennedy, associate professor of writing and rhetoric, is the author of “Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency and Technology in Wikipedia and the Chambers’ Cyclopædia”

(University of South Carolina Press, 2016).

FOCUSON HUMANITIES

The Democratizing Knowledge (DK) Project is organizing a series of campus dialogues, thanks to a grant from the Bringing Theory to Practice initiative. Titled “Creating New Publics: Understanding the Power of Place,” the 2017-18 series explores how curricular and pedagogical planning can better support an increasingly diverse student body.

The DK Summer Institute travels this year to Rutgers University, where professors and graduate students from all over the country examine the concept of “Just Academic Spaces.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the three-year institute (which concludes at Spelman College in 2018) seeks to foster collaboration between scholar-activists and community partners.

Romita Ray, associate professor of art history and chair of art and music histories, has returned from overseas, where she used a National Endowment for the Humanities

fellowship to conduct research for her forthcoming book on the visual histories of Indian tea.

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, associate professor of music history and cultures, is using a grant award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (U.K.) to help present

Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare plays in London’s historic Globe Theater.

Dana Spiotta, associate professor of English, has published her fourth novel, “Innocents and Others” (Scribner, 2016). Winner of the 2017 John Updike Award from

the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is a finalist for both the L.A. Times Book Prize and the inaugural Simpson Family Literary Prize, chaired by author Joseph Di Pisco ’72.

Roger Hallas, associate professor of English, is using a fellowship from the Howard Foundation to finish work on his book, “A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film.”

Stephanie Shirilan, associate professor of English, swept the nonfiction category of the YMCA’s Central New York Book Awards with “Robert Burton and the Transformative

Powers of Melancholy” (Routledge, 2015), a rereading of Burton’s 17th-century masterpiece about psychology and philosophy.

Tej Bhatia, professor of linguistics and Hindi, is organizing the 22nd annual Conference for the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), which takes place this

summer at Syracuse and covers “Local and Global Contexts of World Englishes.” (Visit iawe.syr.edu.) Bhatia is president of IAWE and co-editor-in-chief of Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition. He recently delivered the inaugural address at an international conference at Aligarh Muslim University in India.

The Humanities Center offers a range of highly competitive fellowships. This year’s fellows are:

Faculty Fellows: Roger Hallas (English) and Scott Manning Stevens (English/Native American Studies)

Syracuse Symposium Faculty Fellow: Joan Bryant (African American Studies)

Dissertation Fellows: Amy Burnette (English) and Jessica Pauszek (Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition)

Public Humanities Graduate Fellows, in conjunction with the CNY Humanities Corridor and Humanities New York: Jesse Quinn (Geography) and Kishauna E. Soljour (History)

FOCUSON SCIENCES/MATHEMATICS

Peter R. Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics, is a co-recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery. Saulson shares the award with

Gabriela González G’95 (his first Ph.D. student at Syracuse) and David Howard Reitze, in recognition of their leadership of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave

Observatory Scientific Collaboration.

John Tillotson, associate professor and chair of science teaching, is the co-recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for nearly $1 million, supporting the recruitment and retention of underrepresented students in the STEM fields. He shares the award with Dean Karin Ruhlandt, Associate Dean Kandice Salomone and Biology Professor Jason R. Wiles.

Wiles, associate professor of biology, received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Association of College & University Biology Educators and the Evolution Education

Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Laura Lautz G’05, associate professor of Earth sciences, is part of a multinational, interdisciplinary research team studying how the loss of glaciers in the northern

Peruvian Andes affects water resources in neighboring regions.

Christopher Junium, assistant professor of Earth sciences, has detected evidence of interaction between oxygen and nitrogen in 2.3 billion-year- old rock. The discovery breathes

new life into our understanding of the “Great Oxidation Event,” in which oxygen first appeared in the atmosphere, and fills in a 400-million-year gap in the Earth’s geochemical records.

Lixin Shen, professor of mathematics, is the co-recipient of a U.S. patent for “Methods and systems for inverse problem reconstruction and application to emission

computed tomography reconstruction.” He and his colleagues use sophisticated algorithms to reconstruct high-resolution 3D images, useful for diagnosing abnormalities and diseases.

Simon Catterall, professor of physics, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the world’s second largest organization of physicists.

Michael Marciano (top) and Jonathan Adelman G’16, researchers in the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute, have figured out a new way to separate mixed DNA samples, using machine learning. Their patent-pending method accurately classifies a sample in seconds, as opposed to the traditional manner, which can take up to nine hours.

Joseph Paulsen, assistant professor of physics, is using an NSF CAREER grant to study how the curvature of a liquid surface can propel thin polymer films, as well as wrinkle and crease them. The results will uncover new ways for controlling liquid interfaces by using flexible sheets, going beyond current methods that involve soap or solid particles.

Tadeusz Iwaniec, the John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics, has been conferred the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Naples in Italy. Iwaniec is the first mathematician to receive such a degree (one of the most ancient university traditions) from Naples, the world’s oldest, public, non-religious institution.

A. Alan Middleton, professor and chair of physics, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

The International Building Physics Conference will make its U.S. debut at Syracuse in September 2018. Offered every three years, the conference brings together scientists, researchers and practitioners interested in the design of building fabrics and surrounding spaces.

Christopher Scholz (left), professor of Earth sciences, and Tannis McCartney G’17, a Ph.D. candidate, have confirmed that rifting—the process by which the Earth’s

tectonic plates move apart—has occurred slowly in Lake Malawi in the East African Rift Valley over the past 1.3 million years.

Professors Nancy Totah and John Chisholm are using a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase graduate student diversity in chemistry.

Mark Bowick, the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics, is spending the next two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a visiting scientist and deputy director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

FOCUSON SOCIAL SCIENCES/MAXWELL SCHOOL ALUMNI2010s Jesse Feitel ’13, G’16, L’16 is clerking for U.S. District Court Judge William Q. Hayes ’78, G’83, L’83 in San Diego. After his clerk-ship, Feitel will move to the New York office of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.

John Giammatteo ’11 is a third-year law student at Yale Law School, where he has co-directed the law school’s chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project.

Anna Kahkoska ’13 is an M.D./Ph.D. student at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she has pioneered an innovative approach to treating

patients with diabetes.

Brian Kam ’16 is founder and CEO of the Thrive Project, providing nonprofit energy education and vocational training to communities in need. Thrive is affiliated with Syracuse’s Blackstone LaunchPad.

A team of alumni is assisting Syracuse Professor Laura Lautz G’05 with hydrology research in the Peruvian Andes. They include Ryan Gordon G’13, a postdoctoral research associate at Syracuse; AnneMarie Glose G’13, a senior staff scientist at Geosyntec Consultants; Marty Briggs G’12, a research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Jeff McKenzie G’00, G’05, associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences at McGill University; and Bryan Mark G’01, professor of geography at The Ohio State University.

2000s Susan DeMar ’02, an administrative assistant in the geography depart-ment at New Mexico State University, is the recipient of the Stephen W. and Robert E. Roberts Memorial Staff Award for exemplary service.

1990s Tara Favors ’95 has been promoted to managing director at Morgan Stanley in New York City. She also is head of human resources for corporate functions.

Winston Fisher ’96, a partner of Fisher Brothers Management, competed in the World Marathon Challenge—seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, raising more than $60,000 for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.

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Jamie Winders—professor and chair of geography, as well as an O’Hanley Faculty Scholar—is the new editor of International Migration Review (Center for Migration Studies / John Wiley

& Sons Inc.).

Catherine Gerard, director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, and Peter Castro, associate professor of anthropology, traveled to Belize to lead workshops on environmental governance and conflict management for community leaders. The workshops were held at the University of Belize and La Milpa Field Station, with support from the Oak Foundation.

Castro also received the Dr. Martin Luther King Unsung Hero Award in the Carrier Dome, in recognition of his service to African development as an applied anthropologist.

Faculty authors include:

Keith J. Bybee (political science): “How Civility Works” (Stanford University Press, 2016)

Craige Champion (history): “The Peace of the Gods: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic” (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Dimitar Gueorguiev (political science), co-author: “China’s Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Osamah Khalil (history): “America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State” (Harvard University Press, 2016)

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, professor and chair of political science and a Provost Faculty Fellow for internationalization, is an American Council on Education Fellow for the 2017–18 academic year.

The Campbell Public Affairs Institute hosted the first public debate on a metropolitan form of government for Onondaga County (N.Y.). Arguing in favor of the proposition were James Walsh, a government affairs counselor for K&L Gates, and William Byrne, board chair and secretary of Byrne Dairy; arguing against it were Stephanie Miner ’92, mayor of the City of Syracuse, and Robert Antonacci L’92, Onondaga County comptroller.

Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography, addressed The Human Right to Water workshop, hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City. She met with Pope Francis and heard him speak about water insecurity and access to clean water. She is a co-signatory with the pope of the Vatican Declaration on the Human Right to Water.

Six collaborative research groups at Syracuse, including members of the Department of Geography, are using state revitalization funding for projects that involve unmanned aerial systems. Activities include energy mapping of buildings, autonomous navigation and the development of regulations and policies to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles into communities.

Peter Wilcoxen, a Meredith Professor in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, and Keli Perrin L’04, assistant director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, are part of an interdisciplinary team using an NSF grant award to examine the creation of cybersecurity threats with the modernization of electric power grids.

CORNER

INMEMORIAMJosé Benardete, professor emeritus of philosophy, died in February. During his 50 years at Syracuse, he taught and wrote many subjects, ranging from classical Greek metaphysics to contemporary mathematics.

Marilyn Kerr, associate professor of biology and director of the Health Professions Advisory Program in A&S, died in October. For four decades, she helped prepare students

and alumni from Syracuse and SUNY ESF for careers in the health professions, including veterinary medicine.

William “Bill” Mangin ’48, profes-sor emeritus of anthropology, died in January. He earned three bachelor’s degrees from A&S, before teaching in the Maxwell School for 44 years.

Frank Howard Mosher ’64, whose novels often were set in a fictional area of Vermont called the Northeast Kingdom, died in January. Several of his books, including “Northern Borders” (2015) and “Disappearances” (2006), have been adapted to film.

Lucia Perillo G’86, an award-winning poet whose work was shaped by her struggle with multiple sclerosis, died in October. She was best known for “Inseminating the Elephant” (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Renate “Rennie” Simson ’56, G’74, a member of the African American studies (AAS) faculty since 1979, died in February. Chair of AAS from 2010-13 and in 2016, she also was a professor emerita at SUNY Morrisville.

Huston Smith H’99, a pioneering teacher of world religions, died in December. A Syracuse professor from 1973-84, he was the author of “The World’s Religions” (née “The Religion of Man”), one of the most widely used college textbooks on comparative religion.

Jim Wiggins, whose 38-year career at Syracuse included stints as the Remington Professor and chair of religion, as well as interim chair of Hendricks Chapel, died in February. He also was executive director of Interfaith Works of Central New York.

Megyn Kelly ’92 has joined NBC News, where she expects to host her own daytime program and an-chor a Sunday night news and discussion program.

Aaron Krause ’92, president and CEO of Scrub Daddy, returned to campus to discuss the value of a liberal arts education in today’s global marketplace. The scratch-free sponge soaked up the competition, following its appearance on ABC-TV’s “Shark Tank.”

Christopher McRoberts G’94, Distinguished Professor of Geology at SUNY Cortland, has published a monograph on an Upper Triassic bivalve fauna from

Alaska containing many species new to science. He has named one of them Minetrigonia newtonae, in honor of Cathryn Newton, professor of Earth and interdisciplinary sciences and dean emerita of A&S.

1980s “Rey” Pascual ’85, a partner in the international law firm of Paul Hastings LLP and vice chair of Syracuse’s Board of Trustees, has established the Reinaldo and

Eugenia Pascual Endowed Scholarship Fund for A&S students. He also co-chairs, with Kathy Walters ’73, the Atlanta Regional Council, and has been instrumental in the development of the annual “Discover Atlanta” immersion program in A&S.

1970s Lynn Ahrens ’70, a Tony Award- winning writer and lyricist, has premiered her latest Broadway musical, “Anastasia,” based on the 1997 animated film, which she also composed. Other shows to her credit include “Seussical,” “Ragtime” and “Rocky.”

Kevin Bell ’74, president and CEO of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, has joined the A&S Strategic Plan Steering Committee. The longtime member of the A&S Board of Visitors (BOV) is helping the College align its academic plan with that of the University.

Anne Marie Patti Higgins ’76, G’90 has underwritten Syracuse’s first live red-tailed hawk nest cam, in memory of her husband Thomas L’67. Based in the Department of Biology, the nest cam will foster interdisciplinary work in avian behavior and bioacoustics, ecology, evolution, physiology and conservation.

Gerard Martin ’77, medical director of global health at the Children’s National Health System and the C. Richard Beyda Professor of Cardiology at the George Washington

University School of Medicine & Health Services, is marking 25 years of volunteerism in third world and developing countries. He is an international expert on pediatric cardiac care and the global health agenda.

Larry Weinstein ’76, president of the Weinstein Plastic & Ambulatory Surgery Center in Chester, N.J., trav-els to India every year to fix bilateral and unilateral clefts, open eyelids,

mend deformed ears and smooth scars and burns. During his latest trip, Weinstein and his team screened more than 800 patients, free of charge, over a four-day period.

1960s Marvin Lender ’63, bagel baker, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has been named to the Baking Hall of Fame. The former co-owner of Lender’s Bagel Bakery has held leadership positions with the National Frozen and Refrigerated Foods Association and the United Jewish Appeal.

Kathrine Switzer ’68, G’72, the first woman to compete in the Boston Marathon, marked the 50th anniversary of her accomplishment by competing in the 2017 edition of the fabled race. The former BOV member also is a best-selling author and an Emmy Award-winning television commentator.

1930s Don Waful ’37, G’39, one of the University’s oldest surviving World War II veterans, has been inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans’ Hall of Fame. He recently celebrated his 101st birthday with

members of the University’s Army ROTC unit, which turned 100.

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