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Inaugural Thompson Scholars Named

Wednesday, November 4, 2015, By Scott Barrett

The Maxwell School has named two graduate students in public administration and international affairs as the inaugural Jean and Dick Thompson Graduate Scholars. The Jean and Dick Thompson Endowed Graduate Scholarship was established in the spring of 2015 by the…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Announces Winners of 2015 Grossman Trial Competition

Tuesday, November 3, 2015, By Robert Conrad

College of Law students Ibrahim Lawton L’17 and Khadijah Peek L’16, representing the plaintiffs, won the 38th Annual Lionel O. Grossman Trial Competition. Representing the defendants were finalists John Boyd II L ’16 and Steven M. Nelson L ’16. Judge…

‘Networked Arts’ Performance to Take Place at Syracuse, Cornell, Beijing Nov. 8

Monday, November 2, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse Symposium 2015™ “Networks” continues with “Networked Arts,” an international performance on Nov. 8 linking Syracuse University, Cornell and Beijing. The program is presented by the Society for New Music, and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Joyce Hergenhan…

Campus & Community

Falk College Highlights Graduate Studies at Information Session

Friday, October 30, 2015, By Michele Barrett

Syracuse University faculty, staff and current students will welcome potential graduate students interested in the Falk College’s graduate programs in child and family studies, public health, marriage and family therapy, nutrition science, social work and sport management during a special…

Arts & Culture

MLA Past President to Discuss Humanities Advocacy Nov. 6

Thursday, October 29, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with a lecture on the role of advocacy in humanities education. Margaret Ferguson, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), and past president…

Arts & Culture

Mary Karr Next Author in the Raymond Carver Reading Series

Monday, October 26, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

The Raymond Carver Reading Series in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with a reading by acclaimed memoirist and poet Mary Karr ’H15, the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at the University, where she delivered the 2015 Commencement…

The Psychological Impacts of Mass Shootings and Violence

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor Leonard Newman, area director of social psychology, offers expertise on the mass shooting and violence that has gripped the US during the past two decades. Q: Are we (US society) becoming psychologically desensitized…

Military Intelligence Expert Available for Comment on Benghazi Hearings

Thursday, October 22, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

Vice Admiral and Deputy Director for the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism Robert B. Murrett is available for media interviews regarding the current Benghazi hearings. Murrett is also faculty member at Syracuse University Maxwell School’s Department of Public Administration…

Media, Law & Policy

Keck Leads NSF-Funded Study of Global Free Speech

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, By Scott Barrett

Thomas M. Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics at the Maxwell School, will spend the next three years studying who benefits from court decisions enforcing constitutional free speech norms around the globe. Over the summer, Keck…

Arts & Culture

SU Abroad Course in Lebanon, Jordan Studies Gender, Sexuality

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, By News Staff

A new study abroad course, titled “Global Perspectives, Local Contexts: Women and Gender in the Arab World,” was launched this past summer in the College of Arts and Sciences. Taught by Carol Fadda-Conrey and Dana Olwan, professors of English and…