SU replaces 1-year Lockerbie program again, this time with 1-week ‘fellowship’
SU announced it will host 10 “Lockerbie Fellows” for a week-long immersion during Remembrance Week next fall, instead of reinstating its yearlong Lockerbie Scholarship. The new program mirrors a similar, discontinued immersion in fall 2025. Taite Paradise | Staff Photographer
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Syracuse University announced it will host a week-long immersion trip of 10 “Lockerbie Fellows” during Remembrance Week instead of reinstating its traditional yearlong scholarship, an SU spokesperson confirmed Monday.
SU originally announced that it’d return to the two-person academic year scholarship structure in May 2025. After hosting a similar 10-person program during fall 2025, SU will return to this structure under a new name, according to a Thursday release.
The new Lockerbie Fellows program, designated in the recently signed Memorandum of Agreement with Lockerbie Academy, will bring 10 Lockerbie Academy students to campus during Remembrance Week, according to the release.
Each fall semester, SU observes Remembrance Week to honor the victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing — a terrorist attack that killed 270 victims. The university’s several remembrance scholarships aim to educate the campus community about the bombing and remember the lives of the victims, according to SU’s website.
From its inception in 1990 until it was discontinued in 2024, SU hosted two Lockerbie Scholars who would enroll for the academic year. In fall 2024, the university introduced a new format for the program, opting to bring 10 to 12 Lockerbie Academy students to SU for an annual one-week immersion program.
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In May, SU announced it would reinstate the two-student Lockerbie Scholarship for the 2026-27 academic year. However, that fall, the reformed program still took place with 10 Lockerbie Scholars visiting campus during remembrance week.
Now, the new program — renamed “Lockerbie Fellows” instead of “Lockerbie Scholars” — will be the structure for the program moving forward, an SU spokesperson told The Daily Orange.
“This partnership reflects our enduring commitment to honoring the memory of those we lost while cultivating a meaningful, living connection between our two communities,” SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Lois Agnew said in the release.
Lockerbie Academy administrators will select the Lockerbie Fellows, ensuring that participants demonstrate academic excellence and a “deep understanding” of the tragedy and its significance to the Syracuse and Lockerbie communities, according to the release.
The new program will begin in fall 2026.
More stories on SU’s Remembrance Week:
- Program future uncertainty persists for former Remembrance, Lockerbie Scholars
- Former Remembrance, Lockerbie Scholars react to program change
- Lockerbie Scholars reflect on program legacy, concerns with changes
- SU to end yearlong Lockerbie Scholarship, proposes immersion program
- SU, Lockerbie Academy renew Lockerbie Scholarship for fall 2026
