SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
WRVO interviewed filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, who will receive an honorary degree Sunday at Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement. Wurzburg discussed how she and Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Education, conceived and co-produced the documentary “Wretches and Jabberers,” about the travels of disability rights advocates Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette. Wurzburg will teach a MayMester course, “Documentary Films in Education: The Director’s Cut.”
Harriet Brown, assistant professor of magazine journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was interviewed for a WRVO report on prom season and body images issues for high school girls. A podcast is available here.
CNY Central reported from University College’s Commencement on the story of UC graduate Barbara Herndon, who completed her degree after a 19-year course of study.
YNN previewed Commencement weekend and the Sunday ceremony with J. Craig Venter, world-renowned scientist regarded as one of the most influential people in the world for his efforts to decode the human genome, delivering the Commencement address. 9WSYR also previewed that they will carry the Sunday Commencement live, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Sean Kirst’s Post-Standard column profiled Delaware Attorney General Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III, a 1994 graduate of the College of Law, who will deliver the college’s commencement address today.
FACULTY QUOTES
Milton Mueller, professor in the iSchool, spoke with NPR about registering Internet addresses.
Rick Burton, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times about Tiger Woods’ public and media image.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch and 9WSYR quoted Christine Himes, professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, on Oneida County’s aging population.
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Alonna Berry ’11, executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice and a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, is the new president of the Syracuse University Alumni Association (SUAA) Board of Directors, as of July 1, 2025….
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Jorge Morales ’26, a double major in history and anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with a minor in English and textual studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the highly competitive…
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