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Campus & Community

Brett Padgett Named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Thursday, July 7, 2022, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the appointment of Brett Padgett, a higher education financial leader and Navy veteran, as Syracuse University’s next senior vice president and chief financial officer. Reporting to the Chancellor as a member of the executive team,…

Campus & Community

From Burma to ’Cuse: Custodial Supervisor Pawehmoo ‘Ma’ Thawtheet Pursues Growth, Learning and the American Dream

Tuesday, July 5, 2022, By Jen Plummer

Pawehmoo Thawtheet, known affectionately as “Ma” by friends and colleagues, came to Syracuse by way of Thailand in the fall of 2007. A native of Burma (now known as Myanmar) and member of the Karen ethnic group, Thawtheet spent the…

Campus & Community

Architecture Students Engage in Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge

Monday, June 13, 2022, By Julie Sharkey

A team of School of Architecture students led by Julia Czerniak, associate dean and professor, and Professor Ted Brown, have spent the last five months immersing themselves in the culture, values, history and peoples of two towns on the banks…

Campus & Community

She Shoots, She Scores: Sarah Thompson’s ‘Sticks Together’ Project Brings Street Hockey to Children in Argentina

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, By Matt Michael

On Comfrey Crescent in Orléans, a suburb of Ottawa, there was one thing that always brought the children out of their yards and houses and onto the street. No, not the ice cream truck. Instead, Sarah Thompson would come out…

Media Tip Sheets

“Inclusion Should Not Be an Afterthought”: Education and Legal Experts Weigh In on Plan to Update Federal Regulations

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, By Christopher Munoz

For the first time in 45 years, the U.S. Education Department is planning to update federal mandates for how schools and colleges must accommodate students with disabilities. The department is soliciting public comments about how current regulations can be improved…

Health & Society

Falk Graduate Student Rebecca Garofano Honored by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Thursday, May 5, 2022, By News Staff

Rebecca Garofano, a Falk College graduate student in nutrition science, was honored with the Outstanding Dietetics Student Award at the New York State Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Meeting and Expo April 8-9 in Syracuse. Garofano is actively engaged…

WGRZ

Garrett Wagner interviewed about Musk’s purchase of Twitter

Monday, April 25, 2022, By Lily Datz

Kyla Garrett Wagner, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, was interviewed for the WGRZ segment “Town Hall: Potential Twitter changes” to discuss how Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter relates to free speech.

Agence France-Presse

“Musk-ruled Twitter: users left to fight trolls and misinformation?”

Monday, April 25, 2022, By Lily Datz

Kyla Garrett Wagner, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Agence France-Presse story “Musk-ruled Twitter: users left to fight trolls and misinformation?” Wagner, who studies communications and the First Amendment, explained that she does not…

WSYR

Thompson discusses shutdown of CNN+

Friday, April 22, 2022, By Lily Datz

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of television, radio, and film in the Newhouse School and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, was interviewed Syracuse’s Morning News with Dave Allen on WSYR. Thompson discussed how CNN‘s recently released…

El Paso Times

“Sector Chief Gloria Chavez readies El Paso Border Patrol for end of Title 42, return of asylum”

Friday, April 22, 2022, By Lily Datz

Austin Kocher, research assistant professor in the Newhouse School with the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was quoted in the El Paso Times story “Sector Chief Gloria Chavez readies El Paso Border Patrol for end of Title 42, return of…