Chancellor’s Medal
The Chancellor’s Medal is the University’s 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.
Cydney Johnson, deputy county executive for physical services for Onondaga County and Syracuse University’s former vice president for community engagement and government relations
Bill Coplin, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and professor of policy studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence
The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in four overarching categories:
Excellence in Student Research
Qingyang Liu, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Human Development and Family Science in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics (graduate)
Abigail Greenfield, a history major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, a political philosophy major in the College of Arts and Sciences, and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program (undergraduate)
Outstanding Contributions to the Student Experience and University Initiatives
Farzana Rahman, associate teaching professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (faculty)
Lindsay Quilty, assistant dean for undergraduate programs in the Whitman School of Management (professional staff)
Ling Gao LeBeau, director of international student success in the College of Arts and Sciences (professional staff)
Emma Karp, operations assistant in Campus Dining and Catering (support staff)
Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction
Benjamin Dotger, professor of teaching and leadership and director of the Center for Experiential Pedagogy and Practice in the School of Education
Shikha Nangia, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Lifetime Achievement Award
James Clark, professor and program coordinator for theater management in the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Student-Athlete Award
This 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.
Jordan Beck, a finance major in the Whitman School of Management and a member of the men’s lacrosse team
Charlotte Ebel, majoring in public relations in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and German language, literature and culture and women’s and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the women’s rowing team
Emma Klein, a chemical engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the women’s soccer team
Seinfeld Scholarship
Each year Syracuse University honors the talents of outstanding faculty or students through an award made possible by Judith Greenberg Seinfeld ’56, 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.
Claire Ceccoli, a senior public relations major in the Newhouse School
Elizabeth Paulin, a senior sociology major in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorships for Teaching Excellence
A substantial bequest from the estate of Dr. L. Douglas Meredith, a 1926 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, allowed Chancellor Kenneth A. Shaw to create the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorships in 1995, to recognize and reward outstanding teaching among faculty.
2025-28 Meredith Professors
Nina Iacono Brown, associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Rachel Razza, professor and associate dean of human dynamics in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
Teaching Recognition Award
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.
Early Performance
Melanie Blanden, associate teaching professor of biochemistry and director of undergraduate program in the College of Arts and Sciences
Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Alexander Deyhim, Kenneth and Mary Ann Shaw Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurial Leadership in the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Erika Schneider, assistant professor of public relations in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Jasmina Tacheva, assistant professor in the School of Information Studies
Daniel Traficonte, associate professor of law in the College of Law
Continuing Excellence
Kelly Curtis, teaching professor and associate dean of students in the College of Law
Rae Ann Meriwether, associate teaching professor of writing studies, rhetoric, and composition in the College of Arts and Sciences
Enduring Values Award
This award recognizes an individual who is integral in helping us achieve academic excellence at a university that is welcoming to all.
Craig Tucker, director of Higher Education Opportunity Program and Trio Student Support Services programs
William Pearson Tolley Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Lifelong Learning
As one of the nation’s preeminent leaders in higher education, William Pearson Tolley served as Chancellor for 27 years. The University established the Tolley Medal in 1966, in conjunction with the School of Education, and honors national or international leadership in support of lifelong learning.
Howard G. Adams G’79, founder and president of H.G. Adams & Associates Inc., and an alumnus of the School of Education
Chancellor’s Forever Orange Award
The Chancellor’s Forever Orange is conferred on individual students, faculty or staff who—by virtue of extraordinary hard work, good values and commitment to excellence—embody the best of Syracuse University
Pamela Kirwin Heintz, founding director of the Shaw Center for Public and Community Service
2024-25 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars
The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars lead the Syracuse University community in the remembrance of the 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
2025 Senior Class Marshals
Mark Nzasi and Yifan “Ivan” Shen
2025 School and College Marshals
College of Arts and Sciences—Ellen Clark, Megan Edenfeld, Owen Opalenic
College of Engineering and Computer Science—Tessa DeCicco, Brady McKenna
College of Law—Noah H. Centore
College of Professional Studies—Robert L. Salvato
College of Visual and Performing Arts—Morgan Albano, Paige Hartquist
Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics—Laura Jayne, Rylee Brook Pepper
Martin J. Whitman School of Management—Talia St.Angelo, Evan Kalish
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs—Christopher Bezdedeanu
School of Architecture—Rebecca Goetzke, Qianzhen Li
School of Education—Joshua Spodek, Sofia DaCruz
School of Information Studies—Rebecca Skier, Ellie Walker
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications—Charlotte Ebel, Ryan E. Myers
The Graduate School—Qingyang Liu
2025 University Scholars
Twelve seniors are named as the 2025 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows.
2024 Emeriti Faculty
Kal Alston
Suzanne L. Baldwin
Kenneth Baynes
Tej K. Bhatia
Shobha K. Bhatia
Theodore Brown
Virginia Burrus
Shiu-Kai Chin
Robert M. Cleary
Julia Czerniak
Francine J. D’Amico
Cliff I. Davidson
Thomas deLara
Dennis Deninger
Joseph Downing
Paul G. Fitzgerald
Catherine Gerard
Gail Hamner
Dona Hayes
Susan R. Henderson
Arlene S. Kanter
Eric R. Kingson
Lisa Q. Knych
Henry Lambright
John M. Laverty
Eleanor M. Maine
Mary Helen McNeal
Diane Lyden Murphy
Gustav Niebuhr*
Kathleen M. O’Connor
Stuart S. Rosenthal
Karin Ruhlandt
Francisco E. Sanin
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Evan S. Smith
Christopher Tuohey
Michael D. Veley
*honored posthumously
2024 Years of Service Milestones
20 Years
Lois Agnew
Sharon Alestalo
George Athanas
Laura Bates
David Beickert
Beth Bennie
Paul Bern
Stephen Bonomo
Maria Borte
Oscar Brown
Marlene Celi
Gabrielle Chapman
Matthew Cleary
Thomas Davis
Renee deNevers
Carla Desalvia
Carlota Deseda-Coon
Nicolette Dobrowolski
Ryan Elstad
Robert Enslin
Shane Franklin
Paul Gandel
Atong Got
Bing Guo
Kathleen Haley
Mark Heller
Yumei Hou
Christopher Hudson
Kristen Jones-Kolod
Sue Karlik
Mary Kasprzyk
Robyn Kobasa
Margaret Lambrecht
Margaret Lane
Graham Leuschke
Lori Levengood
Kathleen Lipp
Elias Liquori
Laura Lisnyczyi
Yan-Yeung Luk
Amy Lutz
Tereza Mabor
Elizabeth McInerney
Sarah McLaughlin
Caroline McMullin
Alexander Medvedev
Chandra Mohanty
Liviu Movileanu
Michele Mooney
Bryan Moran
Daniel Nelson
Virgina O’Connor
Stephen Olden
Claudine O’Loughlin
Patrick Penfield
Gwendolyn Pough
Joseph Quarantillo
Lawrence Quaglia
Eleanor Righi
Stuart Rotblat
Robert Sartin
Minet Schindehutte
Michael Schwartz
Christine Signy
Shirley Smiley
Jeffrey Smith
Timothy Stenson
Mindi Stoffel
Gael Sweeney
Douglas Tankersley
Brian Taylor
Michael Torak
Brooke Tyszka
David Van Slyke
Nancy Vaught
Joseph Walsh
Jamie Winders
Susan Woltman
Glenn Wright
25 Years
Mary Ellen Albiker
Elizabeth August
Pamela Brandes
Renee Briggs
Candy Brooks
Angela Bugge
Deena Capria
Cynthia Carnahan
Joseph Charette
John Cisternino
Andrew Cohen
Sharon Cole
Nicole Cooter
Danielle Cunningham
Keith Dibello
Christine Donegan
Toni Doupe
Daniel Edwards
Stacey Emmons
Gary Engelhardt
Thomas Fazzio
Charles Fiesinger
Shane Garbry
Bruce Hammond
Julie Hasenwinkel
David Harris
Jon Horne
Maria Jasmins
Ambika Krishnakumar
Connie LaRocca
Jonathan Lebaron
Bridget Lichtinger
David Lupi
Michael Maines
Maria Maloof
Duane Marcy
James McLellan
Brian O’Hara
Kendall Phillips
Ali Prettyman
Jian Qin
Lisa Ramos
Jane Read
Kelly Homan Rodoski
Susan Scholl
Michelle Sipley
Andria Costello Staniec
Jamie Stout
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Peter Vanable
Peter Verheyen
James Watts
Susan Watts
Lynn Wilcox
Jianshun Zhang
30 Years
Donna Adams
Cheryl Bonn
David Bristol
Charles Campbell
Simon Catterall
Lawrence Davis
Karen Doherty
Elizabeth Easson
Catherine Engstrom
Alexandra Epsilanty
Terrance Goode
Margaret Harding
Sherry Hayes
Pamela Heintz
Carol Liebler
Susan Mehringer
Brad Meyer
Cynthia Robinson
Robert Rubenstein
Samuel Sampere
Laura Sauta
James Schlensker
Christabel Sheldon
Angela Ward
Christopher Weiss
Tammy Woody
35 Years
David Alexander
Robert Burns
Brian Byrns
Dympna Callaghan
Vincent Cobb
Tracy Cooper
Ann Corbett
Michael Culligan
Steven Diaz
Fernando Diz
Lisa Dievendorf
Julie Hall
Frank Jace
Chris Johnson
Marvin Jones
Sean Kelly
Deborah Manobianco
Nasser Masrouri
Diane W. McKenney
Christopher Kennedy
Jo Anne Phang
Rob Pusch
Declan Quinn
Utpal Roy
Michael Schoonmaker
Mylinda Smith
Michelle Snyder
Michael Sponsler
Margo Tucker
Gregory Verchota
Fred Wellner
40 Years
Uday Banerjee
John Boland
John Defrancisco
Linda Deon
Joseph Lore
Adam Lutoborski
Jaipaul Roopnarine
Robert Van Gulick
45 Years
Charles Driscoll Jr.
Peter Murray
Larry Pinkston
50 Years
James Taylor Jr.
55 Years
William Coplin