The 2021-22 Remembrance Scholarship application will open on Thursday, Nov. 12.

The Remembrance Scholarship is one of the highest honors a Syracuse University student can receive. Those selected are chosen on the basis of scholarship, leadership and service to the community, including service to the military, ROTC, first responder, student government, campus clubs or other community organizations.

The 35 rising seniors chosen are each awarded a $5,000 Remembrance Scholarship, with recipients representing one of the 35 Syracuse University students lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Remembrance Scholars will help educate the campus community about extremism by relating Syracuse University’s Pan Am Flight 103 experience to current events. Through education, all 270 lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, especially the University’s 35 students, are remembered and honored. The motto of the Remembrance Scholars is “Look Back and Act Forward.”

More details about the application process are available here, and on the Become a Scholar page of this website.

Syracuse University’s 2020-21 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars are currently hosting the first Remembrance activity of this academic year.

Thirty-five empty chairs have been placed in the area stretching from the Place of Remembrance to the Hall of Languages. The seats are arranged in the formation of the seats on Pan Am Flight 103 that the 35 Syracuse University students they represent were sitting in for 38 minutes, up until the exact time the Pan Am 103 bombing occurred on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the need to limit in-person gatherings, Remembrance will look different during 2020-21 academic year. The annual Rose-Laying ceremony and Remembrance Convocation have been postponed. It is the scholars’ hope and intention to hold these two events during the Spring 2021 semester, as health and safety circumstances allow.

Read more about this week’s displays and changes to Remembrance programming for the 2020-21 academic year in this recent article from Syracuse University News.

In previous years, the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars at Syracuse University have remembered those lost on Pan Am Flight 103 with events and activities held during a single week each fall semester. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the need to limit in-person gatherings, Remembrance will be different in academic year 2020-21.

The annual Rose-Laying ceremony and Remembrance Convocation have been postponed. It is the Scholars’ hope and intention to hold these two events during the Spring 2021 semester, as health and safety circumstances allow.

The Scholars began meeting remotely in late August to plan virtual events and programs that will occur each month throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. Additionally, the Scholars will collaborate with Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel and the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. family group for virtual annual memorial services on December 21.

Information about all these events and activities will be posted on the Events page of the Remembrance website as details become available.

Jewél Jackson embraces every opportunity to gain hands-on experience and expand her writing portfolio as she prepares for a life of truth-telling as an investigative journalist. Jackson recently added an impressive accolade to her portfolio: she was named a 2020-21 Remembrance Scholar. “This is an important honor because these 35 students had lifelong goals that were similar to mine, but they didn’t get to make their goals a reality,” Jackson says. “As I was completing my application and reading documents and personal letters in the Pan Am 103 archives, I couldn’t help but get emotional. You realize this could have happened to anyone, and it gives you an appreciation of your own life, what you are able to accomplish, and what you want to be known as.  It showed me that the little things I do can have a great impact on someone else, and the importance of being patient, compassionate and understanding toward others.”

Read more about Jewél, her passions, work, and accomplishments in this recent feature from the Syracuse Stories.

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2020-2021 Remembrance Scholars. This scholarship is one of the highest honors a Syracuse University student can receive. The 35 candidates selected to represent and memorialize those students killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 undergo a rigorous and competitive application and interview process. This year’s scholars, as well as the 2020/2021 Lockerbie Scholars, will plan the Remembrance events held at Syracuse University next year as they fulfill the mission to “Look Back, Act Forward” in memory of those lost. Read more about the new cohort in today’s Syracuse University News article.

Four Remembrance Scholars are among the Syracuse University students and alumni to receive Fulbright Student Awards or be named as Fulbright alternates for the 2020-21 cycle. Overall, 10 Syracuse University students received awards through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Another ten students were chosen as alternates. This year, a record 44 Syracuse University students applied to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and 29 were named as semifinalists.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most recipients will begin their placements after Jan. 1, 2021, contingent on travel advisories lifting.

The Remembrance Scholars among this year’s recipients and alternates are:

Fulbright recipient

• Leah Garlock ’16, a communications design graduate from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, ETA, South Korea

Fulbright alternates:

• Adam Bayer ’20, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies, a philosophy major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, ETA, Greenland;
• Taylor Krzeminski ’20, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, ETA, Lithuania; and
• Azarius Williams ’20, a finance major in the Whitman School and a sociology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, research grant, Cambodia.

Learn more about the program and this year’s recipients in today’s article from Syracuse University News.

The distinction of being named a University Scholar is the highest undergraduate honor bestowed by Syracuse University. This year, four Remembrance Scholars are among the 12 graduating students selected as University Scholars. They are:

• Adam Bayer, School of Information Studies, Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Bethany Murphy, College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Morgan Trau, Newhouse School; and
• Tyler Youngman, School of Information Studies, Renée Crown University Honors Program.

Read more about all of this year’s University Scholars in today’s Syracuse University News.

The dean and chaplains of Hendricks Chapel will conduct a remembrance service on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 2:03 p.m. in the chapel’s Noble Room to honor the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on the same date 31 years ago.

The Chaplains’ Council of Hendricks Chapel holds the memorial service each Dec. 21 at 2:03 p.m., the exact time and date of the bombing of Flight 103 in 1988. For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901.

Additional information about commemorations of the 31st anniversary of the disaster is available through Syracuse University News.

Bethany Murphy, a senior environmental engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been named a 2020 Marshall Scholar. She is also a Remembrance Scholar and a member of the Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC). Founded in 1953, the Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a graduate degree at an institution in the United Kingdom in any field of study. Murphy was one of 46 students selected from around the country, and is Syracuse University’s third Marshall Scholar. Over the next two years, she will pursue master’s degrees at the University of Bristol and the University of Sheffield. You can read more about Murphy’s achievements in this recent feature on Syracuse University News.

Due to the weather, the Remembrance Scholarship Information Session originally scheduled for this afternoon, Dec. 2. has been canceled.

Another session will be held this Friday, Dec. 6, from 3:30-5pm in 550 Bird Library. To request accommodations for Friday’s information session, email Melissa Welshans at mlwelsha@syr.edu. All other questions about the Remembrance Scholarship application process may be directed to remember@syr.edu.

Additional information about the application process, deadlines, and qualifications – as well as a link to this year’s application – is available in through Syracuse University News and on the Center for Fellowship & Scholarship Advising website.