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Media, Law & Policy

What Election Results Reveal About LGBTQ+ Winners and Voters

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By Daryl Lovell

In what’s being called the rainbow wave, dozens of LGBTQ+ candidates captured historic wins in the 2020 U.S. elections, including the election of the first openly transgender person for a State Senate seat and the first gay and Afro-Latino and…

Media, Law & Policy

Peace Corps, Fulbright Evacuees Find Community, Opportunity at Maxwell School

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, By News Staff

On a Monday morning in mid-March, Jeremy Gonzalez opened his email and learned he was being immediately evacuated from his Peace Corps post in West Timor, Indonesia. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had already prompted travel restrictions around the world, his…

Campus & Community

New Special Collections Research Center Exhibit: ‘Provisions for Your Research Journey’

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) announces a new exhibition located in the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The exhibition, “Survival Kit: Provisions for Your Research Journey,” is on display now through…

Campus & Community

Members of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion Announced

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the 2020-21 members of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion. The council serves as a resource to our university on critical diversity and inclusion matters, including issues related to campus climate and elevating our inherent…

Campus & Community

Life Takes Aisha Huntley on a Winding, Rewarding Educational Journey

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Eileen Jevis

For many adults, it takes courage to walk through a door that can change the trajectory of their life. Oftentimes, that first step is taken with a mixture of hope and trepidation. Aisha Huntley ’05, G ’11 never imagined that…

Media, Law & Policy

New Threats, Familiar Challenges: Maxwell School Responds to COVID-19

Monday, November 2, 2020, By News Staff

How are scholars and practitioners across policy areas—economics, public health, education, social welfare—responding to the myriad impacts of the novel coronavirus? That’s what Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs Colleen Heflin wanted to know, and who better to ask…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents ‘Alinka Echeverría: Heroine’ on View Through Dec. 10

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work presents “Heroine,” a solo exhibition of work by Mexican-British multimedia artist and visual anthropologist Alinka Echeverría. Echeverría’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work through Dec. 10. Copies of Echeverría’s exhibition…

Campus & Community

Public Health Advisory: Update on Clusters Detected Last Week

Monday, November 2, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: Last week, I shared with you that the Syracuse University Public Health Team detected two emerging clusters of COVID-19, both of which were attributable to off-campus events. Over the last several days and throughout…

USA Today

“Election 2020: Terrified to lose and afraid to hope.” 

Monday, November 2, 2020, By Lily Datz

Afton Kapuscinski, assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Psychological Services Center, was interviewed for the USA Today article “Election 2020: Terrified to lose and afraid to hope.” The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020…

The New York Times

“Americans Are Afraid. Not for Themselves, but for the Country.” 

Sunday, November 1, 2020, By Lily Datz

Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was quoted in The New York Times article “Americans Are Afraid. Not for Themselves, but for the Country.” Research has shown that there is growing widespread alarm about…