Zachary Setzkorn ’26, a Social Studies Education major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and School of Education and a Geography and History major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School, is among 35 students who have been chosen as 2025-2026 Syracuse University Remembrance Scholars.
A native of Overland Park, KS, Setzkorn is also an S. Louise and Howard Phanstiel Scholar and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. He serves as a research assistant for the Center for Experiential Pedagogy and Practice, funded through CEPP and the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement (SOURCE).
The Remembrance scholarships, now in their 36th year, were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the students studying in London and Florence through Syracuse University who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Those students were among the 270 people who perished in the bombing.
The scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents, and corporations. Significant support has been provided by Jean Thompson ’66 and Syracuse University Life Trustee Richard L. Thompson G’67 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; by Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Steven Barnes ’82 and Deborah Barnes; by The Syracuse Association of Zeta Psi in memory of Alexander Lowenstein; and by the Fred L. Emerson Foundation.
Also among the 2025-2026 Remembrance Scholars is Brooklyn, NY, native Belinda Chan ’26, a Social Work major currently in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. When Chan begins her scholarship, she will be a School of Education student. As part of a plan to reshape the future of the University’s human dynamics programs, the School of Social Work will be housed in the School of Education starting in July 2025.