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Architecture and Maxwell Schools to host City Scripts ‘Charting Renewal’ Public Forum

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

The School of Architecture and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs will host “Charting Renewal: Blueprint 15 and Re-renewal,” a City Scripts public forum on Thursday, April 1 from 5:30–7 p.m. Free and open to the public, the…

Campus & Community

Highlight the Heroes Part 2: Staff Members Display Ingenuity, Determination, Teamwork in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, By Jen Plummer

As the novel coronavirus took hold in the United States and locally nearly a year ago, many members of the campus community had to reimagine countless processes, solve new and challenging problems, work together in ways previously unheard of, and…

Mother Jones

“Murder, Heart Attacks, Suicide, COVID—Immigrants Are Dying in “America’s Waiting Room.””

Friday, February 12, 2021, By Lily Datz

Austin Kocher, research assistant professor in the Newhouse School with the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was quoted in the Mother Jones story “Murder, Heart Attacks, Suicide, COVID—Immigrants Are Dying in “America’s Waiting Room.”” Kocher, an expert on federal immigration…

Campus & Community

Lender Center Fellows Following Weissman’s Vision for Food Justice

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, By Matt Michael

Stop hunger in Syracuse. In its simplest form, that was Evan Weissman’s vision and why he pursued the Lender Center Faculty Fellowship. Weissman, an associate professor in Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College, wanted to use the fellowship…

Media, Law & Policy

VPA Communications Design Students Win in Graphic Design USA, Creative Quarterly Competitions

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, By Erica Blust

Communications design (CMD) students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design were named winners in two major design competitions. In Graphic Design USA’s (GDUSA) 2020 American Graphic Design Awards, 12 members of CMD’s Class of 2020…

Campus & Community

Gifting Solace in Words and Images

Monday, February 8, 2021, By Paula Meseroll

Faced with creating classwork for an incoming cohort of first-year photography students and hampered by the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, Associate Professor Doug DuBois of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia came up…

Campus & Community

Creative Writing Program Introduces New Undergraduate Degree

Wednesday, February 3, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The Department of English’s signature creative writing program–home of the renowned M.F.A. in creative writing–will now offer a new bachelor of arts degree. Building on the nationally ranked master’s program, the new creative writing major and minor are open to…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents the 2021 Transmedia Photography Annual

Friday, January 29, 2021, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work has announced the 2021 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition of photographs by seniors from the art photography BFA program in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition will run through March 4…

Campus & Community

Athlete, Activist Maya Moore Joins the Martin Luther King Jr. Virtual Event Series Jan. 27

Tuesday, January 26, 2021, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Department of Athletics and Hendricks Chapel will present a virtual conversation with athlete and activist Maya Moore on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. ET on Zoom. Registration is free and open to all at mlk.syr.edu. A…

Health & Society

A&S Speech Disorders Professor: Poet Amanda Gorman’s Story Shares Important Lesson

Monday, January 25, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

National Youth Poet Laureate and the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, Amanda Gorman, captured the world’s attention this month after she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” during the 2021 inauguration ceremonies. While her performance took people’s breath…