March 24, 2022

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SU received over 41,000 new student applications for the fall 2022, Vice Chancellor Gretchen Ritter announced at Wednesday’s University Senate meeting. Page 3

Buddy Boeheim graduates from Syracuse as No. 2 in school history in made 3-pointers, and he led the ACC in scoring this season. Page 12

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‘A million small things’

Student granted Fulbright research By Katie McClellan asst. copy editor

When Maggie Sardino thinks about scholarships, her first thought isn’t academics but lived experience. Sardino was awarded the 2022 Fulbright-MITACS Globalink scholarship, which consists of completing an advanced research project for 10 to 12 weeks over this summer in Canada. Students will explore their specific research interests and experience Canada through recreational experiences.

JULIE NIEDERHOFF, an SU professor, has two adopted children from Ukraine. Now, due to Russia’s invasion, she is working to help those in the country.” jaden chen asst. photo editor

Syracuse University professor provides aid, evacuation for people in Ukraine

She’s done (the work) so skillfully and collaboratively and generously with other people around her. She’s just incredibly impressive. Brice Nordquist

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very day, Julie Niederhoff makes sure to stay up until at least 1 a.m. to keep up with the news. She gathers information, connects with all of her family. Just to make sure she can confidently greet her son when he wakes up at 6:45 a.m. with a simple text message. “Good morning. Everyone is okay.” Niederhoff, an associate professor of supply chain management at Syracuse University, is the mother of two adopted Ukrainian children. Her son, a high school student, has only been in their house permanently for six months. One of Niederhoff ’s daughters, who has now moved out, was also born in Ukraine. Both of her adopted children have families still living in the country. Since the Russian invasion of the country on Feb. 24, Niederhoff has been assisting the evacuation of her

children’s extended family that still live in Ukraine, as well as other Ukrainian citizens. “Nobody in Ukraine is sleeping,” she said. In between afternoon power naps, she tries to keep in contact with everyone to make sure they’re safe. But the six-hour time difference, she said, makes communication difficult. Niederhoff said updates from the country consist of people discussing air sirens and nearby bombings, which happen “around the clock.” In one message, her son’s sisters sent videos of warships in the Black Sea, visible from their apartment window. Niederhoff said that her family has sent over supplies and provided any funds necessary, not only for her children’s families but also for friends and former classmates in the area. “It’s just a million small things that we’re trying to help coordinate, and money is the least personal but the most effective way to help,” she said. “If you can get $50 into the

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The biggest thing that we’ve had is just friends saying ‘How can I help like people want to help?’ Julie Niederhoff whitman school associate professor

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“My goal is to create a space for non-academic audiences to really share their voice and their expertise within digital humanities scholarship,” Sardino said. “What I’m really looking forward to in this project, and why I ended up applying for it, is that I’m really passionate about legitimizing many different forms of expertise, both from educational backgrounds, but also really importantly from lived experience.” Sardino will spend her summer at the University of Victoria in British Columbia to work on her project, “Digital Humanities: Open Scholarship.” “I’m really looking forward to learning from the leaders in community-based research in an open access scholarship,” Sardino said. “I really, really want to be able to learn as much as I can as well as be able to produce research myself that really sort of takes digital humanities scholarship to the next level and creates more see fulbright page 4


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