This semester, a total of 208 students with military ties representing all branches of the U.S. military earned their Syracuse University diplomas. The graduates include 99 veterans, 35 currently serving military members, and 59 family members and dependents. Forty-six students earned dual degrees.
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Logan Bonney, Air Force Veteran and Craft Brewer, Pivots to Meet Customer Needs During Pandemic
Syracuse University alumnus and small business owner Logan Bonney uses his entrepreneurship expertise and hospitality training to guide sound business decisions at a challenging time.
Former ROTC Cadet Savanna Clendining Pursues her Master’s Degree by Applying Practical Skills Learned at Syracuse
For two years, 1st Lt. Savanna Clendining G’22 has risen early in the morning to attend her online classes for the Newhouse School of Public Communication’s master’s program while stationed in Vincenza, Italy, serving the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne). She has attended class on a mountainside in Slovenia and from a cliff in the Dolomite Mountains in northern Italy. Doing coursework by flashlight inside of a darkened tent hasn’t stopped Clendining from working toward her graduate degree, and neither has the coronavirus.
In 2013, Clendining enrolled at Le Moyne College and majored in communications. In her sophomore year, she participated in Le Moyne College’s partnership with Syracuse University and became an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadet. “Based on my experience, I think Syracuse University has one of the best ROTC programs in the country,” Clendining says. “The skills that I learned in the Stalwart Battalion at Syracuse University set me up for success.”
She now serves as a medical operations officer in Italy, and her experience in the medical field has mostly been learned on the job. So far, no one in the 173rd has tested positive for COVID-19. “We’ve tested over 50 people and all of those tests have come back negative, which is incredible because we’re in the middle of where the infection rate is pretty bad,” Clendining says.
American Flag Raised Over National Veterans Resource Center
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we could not be in person to hold the flag ceremony but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the significance of the moment. As Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie has said, “For me, what’s most important about the NVRC is what the building represents. It’s about Syracuse University and our community, communicating a long-term commitment to those women and men who have shouldered the cause of the nation’s defense. It’s about planting that flag.”
OVMA and SVO Announce Yearly Awards Celebrating Student Veterans’ Achievements
Syracuse University’s Student Veterans Organization (SVO) and the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA) are presenting five awards to student veterans in honor of their significant and notable achievements. The awards are normally announced at SVO’s Annual Ball and Awards Banquet, but the 2020 event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the winners were instead announced in a Zoom “virtual lunch.”
Military-Connected Student of the Month: Chris Giglio
For many, joining the military is as much a matter of family tradition as it is a commitment to serve. For Syracuse graduate student and third-generation Naval officer Chris Giglio, it was also a matter of building on a personal history.
Army ROTC Cadet Bethany Murphy Named University Scholar
Bethany Murphy, a senior environmental engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Army ROTC Cadet and 2020 Marshall Scholar, has been named a 2020 Syracuse University Scholar. The honor is the highest undergraduate distinction Syracuse University bestows. Murphy is one of just 12 Syracuse University Scholars
Military-Connected Students of the Month: Sharon Otasowie and Alyssa Kozma
This month, the spotlight on military-connected students is on United States Air Force ROTC JAG Cadets Sharon Otasowie L’21 and Alyssa Kozma L’21.
Arturo Sandoval: Marine Corps Veteran and Whitman Graduate Student Named Faigle Family Scholar
Arturo Sandoval, MBA ’23, a six-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, has been named the most recent recipient of the Gerald B. ’58, ’59 and Roberta M. Faigle ’60 scholarship.
Military-Connected Student of the Month: Kelvin Nyamalor
It’s not every day a student arrives on campus with their whole life tucked away into a single military duffle bag, but for Kelvin Nyamalor, a student veteran at Syracuse University, that was exactly how he arrived.