.a supportive, caring, understanding and hardworking mentor. She works hard on her research, excels as a professor and adviser, believes in her students and helps them understand their potential.”
Sara Scanga, professor of biology, has been named the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Harold T. Clark Jr. Award. Since joining Utica College in 2010, Scanga has published 12 papers in peer-reviewed journals; has worked with dozens of undergraduate students on research projects and recently helped write two grants, each of which were awarded, totaling almost $750,000. Both grants involve creating new opportunities for research with undergraduate students.
Scanga’s field of research and expertise is plant ecology, the study of how and why plants occur where they do, and how environmental conditions affect them, including entire ecosystems. Her research takes place on her computer, in the greenhouse, the laboratory and in the field.
Lakeview Amp might host some high school commencements, as schools move outside
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
A sellout crowd for Florida Georgia Line at the St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, on Aug. 15, 2019Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.
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St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview might be an option for high schools looking for a place for commencements this June.
The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will kick off the commencement season at the Amp on Saturday.
The outdoor venue also is available for high school graduations, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said today. ESF will hold two ceremonies Saturday. That graduation will be the first event at the amphitheater since the coronavirus pandemic started in March 2020.
College of Law appoints new Career Services employees
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The College of Law added an SU graduate and a former board member of a non-profit that aids ESF.
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Syracuse University’s College of Law will add two new staff members to its executive team.
Virginia Robbins will serve as the interim assistant dean of Career Services for the school, where she will work to connect alumni with currently enrolled students. Dafni Kiritsis will enter a permanent position as director of externships and career services in the Office of Career Services.
Deer are not the only mammals to blame for Lyme disease
From mice to acorns to climate change, the uptick in Lyme is an interconnected web
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Chipmunks, shrews, and birds can infect backlegged ticks with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, but white-footed mice are the most common, infection-generating first meal for baby ticks.Weber/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Though Lyme disease has historically been blamed upon the overabundant white-tailed deer that host so-called deer ticks, a much smaller mammal scampering around your yard plays an outsized role in the spread of Lyme.
“White-footed mice are one of the most important determinants for how many ticks there are in the environment and how many infected ticks there are,” says Dr. Richard Ostfeld, who studies the ecology of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, one of the world’s premier centers for ecological research.
ESF Researchers Receive Grants from Northeastern States Research Cooperative
Awards Benefit the Northern Forest in 2021 5/11/2021
Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) Directors announced 13 grants totaling $1.6 million of federal funding and $0.8 million of matching funding for research that will address priority issues facing forest stakeholders in the Northern Forest region. The projects cover a broad range of concerns related to land use and sustainable forestry, rural communities and economic development, climate change, biodiversity, recreation and tourism, invasive pests and diseases, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Federal funding comes from Congressional appropriations through a partnership with the research and development arm of the USDA Forest Service for research on the Northern Forest and its 26 million acres in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. The private sector, states, and other organizations offered matching funding to support the