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College of Law’s Innovation Law Center to Host ‘Venture to Victory: Pioneer Perspectives in Tech, Venture and Private Equity’ Symposium

Thursday, January 25, 2024, By Robert Conrad

The College of Law’s Innovation Law Center (ILC) is hosting the “Venture to Victory: Pioneer Perspectives in Tech, Venture and Private Equity” Symposium on Tuesday, Feb. 13, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom in Dineen…

Campus & Community

DPS Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2024 Community Police Academy

Thursday, January 25, 2024, By Alex Haessig

The Syracuse University Department of Public Safety (DPS) is currently accepting applications for its fourth iteration of the Community Police Academy. The department invites all students, faculty and staff to apply for this free four-week program designed to give community members…

Campus & Community

Office of Academic and Career Advising Names Directors

Friday, January 19, 2024, By Caroline K. Reff

In early 2023, the Office of Academic and Career Advising for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs rolled out a new approach that better serves students from the moment they step…

Campus & Community

Maxwell Professor’s Research on Racial and Ethnic Exclusion Supported by Russell Sage Foundation Grant

Friday, January 19, 2024, By Jessica Youngman

Thomas Pearson, assistant professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is part of a team of scholars who have been awarded $195,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the exclusion and expulsion of minority…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University-University of Seoul MOU Will Support Academic and Cultural Collaboration and Exchange

Thursday, January 18, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A delegation of leaders from the University of Seoul visited Syracuse University Jan. 8 to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will advance and expand academic and cultural collaboration and exchange between the two institutions. This is the second…

Campus & Community

Helping Address Hiring Crises, the Baldanza Fellows Program Expands to Syracuse City Schools

Thursday, January 18, 2024, By Martin Walls

Teacher shortages and a predominantly white teaching force are two persistent hiring trends that continue to challenge public schools nationwide. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 90% of school districts reported difficulties hiring teachers for the 2023-24…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Students Take Honors in Syracuse’s Inaugural Open Data Day

Friday, January 12, 2024, By News Staff

On a recent Saturday afternoon, students in Michiko Ueda-Ballmer’s Data-Driven Decision-Making class got to test what they’ve learned in a first-ever competition designed by the City of Syracuse to use data to address societal problems related to transportation. The class,…

Health & Society

Ukrainian Students Find Refuge in the Maxwell School Community

Friday, December 22, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

Yulia Bychkovska was in Boston in February 2022 when Russian missile attacks struck a mostly residential area west of her home in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Though she was in the U.S., she learned of the invasion before her mother. “I had…

Campus & Community

Advocate and Friend: Falk College Remembers Professor Emeritus Alejandro Garcia

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, By News Staff

Alejandro Garcia, professor emeritus of social work in Falk College, died Nov. 17, 2023. He was 83. A professor of social work at Syracuse University since 1978, Garcia is known as an exceptionally generous and engaged colleague, teacher and scholar…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Student Creates Film About the Plight of Women

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

From a young age, Georgia Fernandes ’24, a fifth-year student from Kenya studying in the School of Architecture, has always wanted to tell stories. Fernandes’ desire to create something from scratch, much like architecture, led her to begin writing movie…