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Health & Society

Online Master of Social Work Opens Doors to Career Changers, Working Professionals

Monday, March 8, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The School of Social Work will welcome its first cohort of online master’s students in May, and Professor Ken Marfilius is excited. “We are already seeing strong applications for our first cohort of 50 students. I think the COVID-19 pandemic…

Associated Press

“‘WandaVision,’ a sitcom sendup, was a pandemic parable, too”

Friday, March 5, 2021, By Lily Datz

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of television, radio and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Associated Press story “‘WandaVision,’ a sitcom sendup, was a pandemic parable, too.”…

Campus & Community

University Selected to Host Hult Prize Regional Competition

Friday, March 5, 2021, By Cristina Hatem

The prestigious Hult Prize Foundation has selected Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars (LaunchPad) to host the Hult Prize Regional Summit. Hult Prize Impact Summits are hosted in 100 locations around the world, and this year Syracuse is one…

Campus & Community

University’s Service of Commemoration to Be Held Virtually on March 16

Thursday, March 4, 2021, By News Staff

Syracuse University will hold its fourth Service of Commemoration—honoring students, faculty, staff, retirees and trustees of Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) who passed during the period of Jan. 1, 2019, to the present—with…

Arts & Culture

Burton Blatt Institute Hosts Poetry Reading

Thursday, March 4, 2021, By News Staff

The Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute welcomes critically acclaimed poet, torrin a. greathouse, for a virtual poetry reading on Thursday, March 25, from 7 to 8 p.m. ET. greathouse, transgender and cripple-punk, is a…

Campus & Community

Four School of Architecture Alumni Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently elevated member-architects, including four School of Architecture alumni, to its prestigious College of Fellows. Sherif W. Anis ’90 (B.Arch.), Jayesh Hariyani ’99 (M.Arch. II), Alice J. Raucher ’86 (M.Arch.) and Hilary M. Sample…

Health & Society

Five Maxwell Scholars Contribute to Aging Studies Handbook

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, By News Staff

Four professors and a doctoral student from the Maxwell School’s Department of Sociology and Department of Public Administration and International Affairs have contributed to the completely revised ninth edition of the “Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences” (Elsevier Academic…

Campus & Community

Q&A With Keith Henderson, the University’s New Chief Compliance Officer

Monday, March 1, 2021, By News Staff

Keith Henderson joined the University in 2020 as chief compliance officer within the Office of University Counsel. In his role, Henderson oversees all of the University’s compliance efforts, including the governance structure, compliance with all state and federal laws and…

The Africa Report

“Sudan: Is the new cabinet a step forward or hollow promises?”

Thursday, February 25, 2021, By Lily Datz

Jok Maduk Jok, professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School, was quoted in The Africa Report article “Sudan: Is the new cabinet a step forward or hollow promises?” Jok, an expert on governance and security in Sudan, believes that the…

Campus & Community

Highlight the Heroes Part 1: Staff Members Display Ingenuity, Determination, Teamwork in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic

Thursday, February 25, 2021, By Jen Plummer

As the novel coronavirus took hold in the United States and locally nearly a year ago, many members of the campus community have had to reimagine countless processes, solve new and challenging problems, work together in ways previously unheard of…