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Lawfare

The Long Road Ahead To Meet The Paris Climate Accord’s Goals

Wednesday, November 3, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Mark Nevitt, associate professor in the College of Law, wrote commentary for Lawfareblog, “What You Need to Know About the New Climate Security Reports.” In Nevitt’s commentary, he discusses new climate security reports and the current issues with the Paris…

Media Tip Sheets

Amazon Sticks to Its Playbook in Latest Unionization Push in NYC

Monday, November 1, 2021, By Lily Datz

Organizers from Staten Island’s Amazon facilities have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union. They’ve collected roughly 2,000 signatures. It’s the latest in a series of similar moves by other Amazon warehouse workers to…

Arts & Culture

Join the Lender Center Conversation: ‘Creative Activity as a Human Right’

Sunday, October 31, 2021, By Matt Michael

For James Haywood Rolling Jr. ’91, the upcoming “Creative Activity as a Human Right” event is two months in the planning but decades in the making. Rolling, a dual professor of arts education in the College of Visual and Performing…

Veterans

IVMF Awarded New $5 Million Federal Grant to Assist Small Businesses

Thursday, October 28, 2021, By News Staff

At a press conference today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has been named as one of only eight Tier 1 grantees, selected as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Awarded Inaugural Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarships

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Two School of Architecture students have received a prestigious national scholarship for young Black designers by Gensler, one of the world’s largest design and architecture firms. Krystol Austin G’22 (M.Arch.) and Coumba Kanté ’22 (B.Arch.) were named two of the…

Reuters

U.S. Kids Now Being Vaccinated. What Do We Know?

Tuesday, October 26, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Brittany Kmush, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at Falk College, was quoted in the Reuters article “Explainer: COVID-19 vaccines for U.S. kids: Here’s what you need to know.” It was also republished by Yahoo! News. Kmush discusses how…

Health & Society

NIH Awards $1.95M to Study State-Level COVID Policies, Mental Health

Monday, October 25, 2021, By Jessica Youngman

Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, is the principal investigator for a five-year research project that will examine the impacts of state COVID-19 mitigation policies on adult psychological health, drug overdose and suicide….

Campus & Community

Disability Justice Advocate Eli Clare Is CNY Humanities Corridor’s 2021 Distinguished Visiting Collaborator

Monday, October 25, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The Syracuse University Humanities Center, in partnership with the Cornell Society for the Humanities, welcomes author and social justice educator, Eli Clare, as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor. A leading thinker at the intersection of queerness, race and…

Campus & Community

Falk College Oct. 28 Event Features Alumni in Disability Advocacy

Monday, October 25, 2021, By News Staff

Falk College Career Services will host the “Falk College Alumni Speaker Series: Improving Access for People with Disabilities” on Oct. 28 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in Grant Auditorium, with a networking reception with refreshments from 5 to 6:30 p.m….

Columbia Journalism Review

Missing White Woman Syndrome and Societal Beauty Standards

Friday, October 22, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Carol Liebler, communications professor in the Newhouse School, was quoted by Columbia Journalism Review for the piece, “The circular reckoning over ‘missing white woman syndrome’.” Liebler discussed the recent trend with missing women, saying, it “is reflective of the dominant…