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What Election Results Reveal About LGBTQ+ Winners and Voters
In what’s being called the rainbow wave, dozens of LGBTQ+ candidates captured historic wins in the 2020 U.S. elections, including the election of the first openly transgender person for a State Senate seat and the first gay and Afro-Latino and…
Peace Corps, Fulbright Evacuees Find Community, Opportunity at Maxwell School
On a Monday morning in mid-March, Jeremy Gonzalez opened his email and learned he was being immediately evacuated from his Peace Corps post in West Timor, Indonesia. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had already prompted travel restrictions around the world, his…
Robert Terrell writes “Remembering Ruth Klüger and her case for accountability.”
Robert Terrell, assistant professor of history in the Maxwell School, authored an op-ed for syracuse.com titled “Remembering Ruth Klüger and her case for accountability.” Writer and literary scholar Ruth Klüger recently passed, but leaves behind a legacy of work surrounding…
New Special Collections Research Center Exhibit: ‘Provisions for Your Research Journey’
Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) announces a new exhibition located in the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The exhibition, “Survival Kit: Provisions for Your Research Journey,” is on display now through…
Undergraduate Internship Award Provides Student Veterans With ‘Pathway to Employment’
When a national survey by Student Veterans of America showed that the No. 1 concern of student veterans is the lack of internships, Ron Novack and Jennifer Pluta from Syracuse University’s Office of Veterans and Military Affairs (OVMA) decided they…
Members of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion Announced
Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the 2020-21 members of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion. The council serves as a resource to our university on critical diversity and inclusion matters, including issues related to campus climate and elevating our inherent…
Life Takes Aisha Huntley on a Winding, Rewarding Educational Journey
For many adults, it takes courage to walk through a door that can change the trajectory of their life. Oftentimes, that first step is taken with a mixture of hope and trepidation. Aisha Huntley ’05, G ’11 never imagined that…
New Threats, Familiar Challenges: Maxwell School Responds to COVID-19
How are scholars and practitioners across policy areas—economics, public health, education, social welfare—responding to the myriad impacts of the novel coronavirus? That’s what Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs Colleen Heflin wanted to know, and who better to ask…
Light Work Presents ‘Alinka Echeverría: Heroine’ on View Through Dec. 10
Light Work presents “Heroine,” a solo exhibition of work by Mexican-British multimedia artist and visual anthropologist Alinka Echeverría. Echeverría’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work through Dec. 10. Copies of Echeverría’s exhibition…
Anticipating Environmental, Climate Policy Under Next President
What could the future of environmental and climate policy in the U.S. look like under a continued Donald Trump administration or a new Joe Biden presidency? Mark Nevitt is an associate professor of law and an expert in environmental and…