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Maxwell geography professor Don Mitchell to receive Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography Award
Don Mitchell, Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Geography, had a date with a king on April 24. Mitchell received the Anders Retzius Medal in Gold from His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, on Vega Day, which celebrates geography and…
Marilyn Higgins one of five newly appointed to Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission
Marilyn Higgins, vice president of community engagement & economic development at Syracuse University, is one of five newly appointed to the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission. Higgins, nominated by Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25), will be sworn in Wednesday,…
SU in the News: Monday, April 23
Regional and local media preview Secretary of State Clinton’s visit to Maxwell School and SU campus
Newhouse students take first at regional advertising competition
Advertising students from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications were winners at the 2012 American Advertising Federation (AAF) regional competition (District 2), held earlier this month in New York City. Newhouse students have won at regional competitions three times…
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month culminates with lecture on cross-cultural leadership
The Office of Multicultural Affairs, within the Division of Student Affairs, is bringing Judy Shen-Filerman, founder and principal of Dreambridge Partners, to campus on Tuesday, April 24, to conclude SU’s celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Shen-Filerman will give…
Prospective first-year students present ideas on improving their own communities through public policies
Sixty-seven of Syracuse University’s prospective first-year students will present their ideas on public policies that can improve their communities at the 66th annual Maxwell Citizenship Scholarship Conference, sponsored by the Public Affairs Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…
Benefits of city living will be subject of April 26 lecture
Edward Glaeser, author of the recent book “Triumph of the City” (Penguin Press HC, 2011), will be the guest speaker at the Andrew F. Smith Lecture in International Economics and Development at the Maxwell School on April 26. The lecture…
Seniors to present work during annual Capstone Presentation Day
On Wednesday afternoons, Brittany Brathwaite, a senior in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, heads to SU’s Warehouse in downtown Syracuse to meet with “her girls,” teenagers from across the city whose lives are in turmoil and for whom…
Posse students welcomed during Spring Reception
From April 16-18, Syracuse University hosted 33 admitted students from Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles for the first ever Posse Spring Reception. Accompanied by directors from each city’s program, the inaugural cadres traveled to SU for an introduction to the…
Send Silence Packing: student advocacy group is raising awareness about student suicide
The Syracuse University chapter of Active Minds is hosting Send Silence Packing, an award-winning national exhibit of 1,100 backpacks representing the number of college students lost to suicide each year.