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Campus & Community

Lender Center for Social Justice Awards 5 Grants for Racial Wealth Gap Studies

Wednesday, September 6, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Five faculty research projects that identify and address issues contributing to or helping alleviate the racial wealth gap in the United States have received grants from the Lender Center for Social Justice. The grants are made possible by funding from…

Campus & Community

Lender Center for Social Justice Seeking Student Fellowship Applicants

Thursday, August 24, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Students from all academic disciplines are invited to apply to the 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Student Fellowship Program. The program will be led by Nausheen Husain, assistant professor of magazine, news and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of…

Health & Society

Professors Theoharis and George Awarded Lender Center Grant to Study Schools’ DEI Policies

Monday, July 31, 2023, By Martin Walls

George Theoharis, professor of educational leadership and inclusive elementary/early childhood education, and Leela George, associate teaching professor of educational leadership, both in the School of Education, have been awarded a 2023 Lender Center for Social Justice grant. The award is…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School Assistant Professor Named 2023-25 Lender Center Faculty Fellow

Monday, July 10, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Nausheen Husain, whose work examines media coverage of Muslim people and communities and the impact of that coverage, has been selected as the 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. Husain is an assistant professor of magazine, news and…

Campus & Community

Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium Examines Causes, Outcomes of Racial Wealth Gap

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Across hundreds of years, American society and institutions have contributed in numerous ways to creating a racial wealth gap that continues to have negative impacts throughout society. That was the outgrowth of scholarship presented by more than 40 University faculty,…

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Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium, Supported by MetLife Foundation, Focuses on Racial Wealth Gap

Thursday, March 23, 2023, By Diane Stirling

What are the structural and systemic factors in American society that contribute to an ongoing and widening racial wealth gap? What steps can organizations take to identify those factors and intervene to minimize their impact on members of Black, Latinx,…

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Lender Center Symposium Examines Complexity of Launching Neighborhood Women’s Wellness Program

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, By Diane Stirling

The disparities between well-intentioned plans for a women-only wellness center on the City of Syracuse’s North Side area and the challenges of providing wellness programming given neighborhood resources and conditions is the topic of the 2022-2023 Lender Center for Social…

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Applications Being Accepted for Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Applications are now being accepted for the position of 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 10, at 5 p.m. ET. The Lender Center Faculty Fellowship supports a two-year research project that…

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Lender Center Student Fellows Researching Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry

Monday, February 13, 2023, By John Boccacino

These days, it’s hard to go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI). Predictive text offers to finish our web searches and our text messages. AI learning-based software can produce everything from research papers to poetry, solving complex math equations to…

Campus & Community

Information Session Jan. 18 on MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Symposium Research Submissions

Wednesday, January 11, 2023, By Diane Stirling

A virtual information session will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18, to offer information and a forum for questions for researchers wanting to submit proposals for presentations at the inaugural MetLife Foundation-Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium. The information session will…