William Banks, Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor and director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism in the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was interviewed by Al Jazeera television about the possible compassionate release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Syracuse University was mentioned in several national and international news stories, and a statement from Syracuse University on the pending situation was included in an Agence France-Presse wire story.
David M. Crane, professor of practice in the College of Law, was interviewed by Correio Brazililense (Brazil) for a column on his experience with war crime prosecutions.
KBTX-TV (Texas) reported on the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) at Texas A&M. The EBV was created at the Whitman School of Management at SyracuseUniversity in 2007.
Robert Thompson, director of the BleierCenter for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I.NewhouseSchool of Public Communications, commented on the future of the “Jon and Kate Plus 8” television show in US Magazine.
Research by David Weinbaum, associate professor of finance in the Whitman School of Management, was posted to a HarvardLawSchool blog on corporate governance and financial regulation.
The Post-Standard, WSYR-TV, CNY Central, News 10 Now, and WAER reported on Thursday’s visit by President Obama’s Energy Advisor Carol Browner to the Syracuse CoE.
Eagle Newspapers reported on the president of the Camillus Fire Department stepping down to begin full-time graduate studies at the School of Information Studies.
Gary Pieples, visiting assistant professor and clinic director of the Securities Arbitration and Consumer Clinic in the College of Law, was part of a Thursday news conference on local mortgage fraud, which was covered by WSYR-TV, WAER and the Post-Standard.
Horace Campbell, professor of political science and African American Studies in the Maxwell School, was quoted by The LA Times for the article “Who killed Haiti’s president? Plot thickens as Moise’s guards come under scrutiny” as well as in France…
Dana Spiotta, associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured in The New York Times for the article “Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books.” Spiotta, whose new novel, Wayward, came out…
Jonathan Martinis, senior director for law and policy at the Burton Blatt Institute was interviewed for The New Yorker article “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare.” Martinis provides context for the lack of rights given to those in conservatorships, saying, “The rights…
Mike Haynie, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation and IVMF founder and executive director, wrote commentary for USA Today entitled “How business leaders can prepare for work life after the pandemic: Read Maya Angelou.” Haynie spoke about leadership, saying,…
Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education in the College of Law, was quoted in a CNN article “Conservatorships explained: What they are and who they’re supposed to help,” as well as…
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