SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
The Disability Scoop website, WRVO and the Post-Standard reported on the study co-authored by the Burton Blatt Institute’s Meera Adya, which finds people with disabilities remain largely sidelined in American politics. The size of the disability population means it is an important voting bloc and potential swing group.
The Post-Standard CNY Business Exchange weekly supplement profiled Terry Brown, the new executive director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of Management.
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C-SPAN aired the proceedings of a foreign policy and global leadership panel held in Charlotte, N.C. in which Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg participated.
David Cay Johnston, distinguished visiting lecturer in the College of Law, appeared on MSNBC‘s “Ed Show” discussing taxes and the group of Americans who pay no federal income tax. Also Johnston authored a Reuters column on Atlantic City, the spread of legalized gambling and impacts on state and local governments.
Harriet Brown, associate professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, authored a New York Times article on the obesity paradox, discussing links between obesity, fitness and health.
Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, is quoted in WHYY NewsWorks (Wilmington, Del.) and WBGO (Newark, N.J.) reports on local political campaigns and the greater effectiveness of political ads on TV versus the Internet.
Olesya Vernyi, a second-year College of Law student, commented on incomplete, inaccurate disclosure forms for a Baltimore Sun article about review of the ethics and financial disclosure forms required of Baltimore city officials and employees. Vernyi served as a mayoral fellow for the city’s project auditing the forms.
Michael Wasylenko, senior associate dean at the Maxwell School and professor of economics, commented for a CNY Central report about the U.S. tax system and the portion of Americans who pay no federal income tax.
Kim Brown, alumni program coordinator in Syracuse University Career Services, is featured in a 9WSYR “Bridge Street” segment on students landing internships.
“I think the Rolls-Royce of Falk College, undoubtedly, is the analytics program,” said David Falk, benefactor of the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, to a room of senior sport analytics students and their families during their capstone poster…
Auxiliary Services has announced a new service approach for campus vending services. In the initial phase of the transition, which began May 12, Servomation, a Central New York-based vending services company, assumed operation of all existing campus vending equipment. Snacks…
Syracuse University has received a $100,000 endowed scholarship from the Live Like Liam Foundation in support of the School of Education’s InclusiveU program. This meaningful gift will expand access to the University’s flagship program for students with intellectual and developmental…
Alumna Dara Drake ’23 has been named as a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholar, the first from Syracuse University. Knight-Hennessy Scholars is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program at Stanford University. Each Knight-Hennessy scholar receives up to three years of financial support…
The trajectory of the Syracuse University women’s club ice hockey team is what Hollywood makes movies about. “When I joined [in Fall 2021] there were only six other people on the team,” says Amanda Wheeler, a senior at SUNY College…
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