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Syracuse iSchool senior Robert Sherman ‘09 named 2009 Engagement Fellow

Six Syracuse University seniors will continue pursuing Scholarship in Action in Central New York after graduation as recipients of the first-ever SU Engagement Fellowships, a yearlong program supported by the Kauffman Foundation that contributes to paid employment locally and arranges remitted tuition for courses at SU and professional and faculty mentors.

The 2009 Engagement Fellows are Garland deGraffenried, a thesis student in the School of Architecture; Samantha Harmon, a senior sculpture major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts; Carissa Matthews, a senior public relations major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; Marguerite Moore, a senior dual major in sociology in The College of Arts and Sciences and television-radio-film in the Newhouse School; Robert Sherman, a senior triple major in information management and technology in the School of Information Studies and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises, and finance in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management; and Elizabeth Slate, a senior sociology major in The College of Arts and Sciences.

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