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Health & Society

Hendricks Chapel Dean, Chaplains and Students Attend Parliament of the World’s Religions

Monday, September 18, 2023, By News Staff

Representatives from Hendricks Chapel recently attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in August in Chicago. This year’s theme was “A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom and Human Rights.” More than 7,000 participants from more than 95 countries, representing…

Health & Society

Roundtable: 3 School of Education Alumni Define ‘Human Thriving’ in the Context of Global Diversity

Friday, September 15, 2023, By Martin Walls

“Human thriving” is among the areas of distinctive excellence enumerated in the University’s 2023 Academic Strategic Plan. This concept is inspired by the words of Chancellor Erastus Haven. In 1871, he charged Syracuse students “to thrive here, to learn here,…

Media, Law & Policy

Robertson Fellows Aspire to Serve as Foreign Service Officers

Thursday, September 14, 2023, By News Staff

Interested in careers in the foreign service, Zoe Prin and Forrest Gatrell took advantage of internships and other opportunities as undergraduates that exposed them to the inner workings of government, policymaking and service from differing vantage points. While Gatrell obtained…

Arts & Culture

Human Rights Film Festival: Changing the World, One Conversation at a Time

Thursday, September 14, 2023, By Eileen Korey

From the rural landscape of Michigan, to the devastated landscape of Bucha in the Ukraine, to the virtual landscape of the African diaspora, filmmakers address social issues and the fight for human rights around the globe at the 21st annual…

Campus & Community

Maxwell’s Johannes Himmelreich Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

Thursday, September 14, 2023, By News Staff

Johannes Himmelreich, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received a $73,670 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a forthcoming two-year project titled “Good Decisions:…

Health & Society

New COVID Boosters Approved, Reminders About Reporting and Isolation

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: A short time ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved a new round of COVID vaccinations. As Syracuse University has in the past, we will be once again offering COVID vaccine clinics,…

Media, Law & Policy

Meet Biko Skalla ’18, Voice of the World-Famous Savannah Bananas

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, By John Boccacino

Baseball is America’s pastime, a game rich in history and time-honored traditions, where change is slow to be embraced and slower still to be adopted. Then, there are the Savannah Bananas, a minor league baseball team that has changed the…

Media, Law & Policy

Sports Broadcaster Anish Shroff ’04 Hopes to Inspire Future Generations of South Asian Sportscasters

Tuesday, September 5, 2023, By John Boccacino

Anish Shroff ’04 happens to be the only minority radio play-by-play voice of a National Football League (NFL) team. It’s not something the veteran sportscaster embraces, but it’s a trend that seems to be shifting. Eternally proud of his South…

Arts & Culture

Tom MacDougall ’92 Donates Platinum Records to Special Collections Research Center

Tuesday, September 5, 2023, By Cristina Hatem

Tom MacDougall ’92, the current president of Walt Disney Music and an alumnus of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, recently donated platinum records from the Disney films “Frozen II,” and “Moana” to Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research…

Media, Law & Policy

These 4 Newhouse Students Won Prestigious Clio Awards Before Graduating

Friday, September 1, 2023, By News Staff

Every student wants to change the world for the better and create disruptive solutions to real-world problems, and advertising truly has the power to create that change. Four students in the Newhouse School of Public Communications did just that—and they…