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Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Provides Update on Benefits, Sustainability at Final University Senate Meeting of the Academic Year

Thursday, April 20, 2023, By News Staff

First, I just want to say something off script, which is that we just did something that was a formality, but it’s an important formality for some of the people newer to shared governance to call attention to. The Senate…

Campus & Community

‘Voices Off, Hands Up!’ Popular American Sign Language Program Expands With New 200-Level Courses

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, By Martin Walls

When professor Corrine Occhino took the helm of the School of Education’s American Sign Language (ASL) program in fall 2021, three sections of ASL 101 and one section of ASL 102 were offered. Since then, ASL has been added to…

STEM

Earth Day: A Call to Action on the ‘’Cuse Conversations’ Podcast

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, By Daryl Lovell

Earth Day is an annual opportunity to celebrate our planet and its resources. It is also a day to act on climate change. The changing climate is already making natural disasters more frequent and severe, making it imperative to take…

Campus & Community

Maxwell’s Alexander Rothenberg Honored With Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, By News Staff

Alexander Rothenberg, assistant professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is this year’s recipient of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, the highest honor the Maxwell School offers to untenured faculty. The…

Campus & Community

Lender Center for Social Justice Symposium Examines Causes, Outcomes of Racial Wealth Gap

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Across hundreds of years, American society and institutions have contributed in numerous ways to creating a racial wealth gap that continues to have negative impacts throughout society. That was the outgrowth of scholarship presented by more than 40 University faculty,…

Campus & Community

Hear From Experts on How to Succeed as a Chinese Student in America at the International Student Networking Summit

Tuesday, April 18, 2023, By News Staff

All students are invited to join the International Student Networking Summit on Friday, April 21, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Lender Auditorium in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. In a panel-style conversation, students will hear from…

Campus & Community

Through Public Health, University Scholar Kiersten Edwards Finds Path to Improving Lives of Others

Monday, April 17, 2023, By Matt Michael

Kiersten Edwards was 8 years old when her older brother, Daniel McPeck, left home to join the U.S. Marine Corps. And as Edwards grew older, she spent a lot of time away from home competing for the U.S. Snowboard Team….

Media, Law & Policy

All Star Broadcasting Panel Addresses the ‘Intersection of Entertainment and Democracy’

Monday, April 17, 2023, By Jessica Youngman

While covering the Olympics’ opening ceremony for NBC in 2012, journalist Bob Costas ’74, H’15 noted a tragic anniversary: During the 1972 Olympics in Munich, a Palestinian militant organization killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches. The International Olympic Committee (IOC)…

STEM

iSchool Associate Professor Receives Fulbright to Conduct Research in the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India

Friday, April 14, 2023, By Anya Woods

When Ingrid Erickson began teaching at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) in 2017, she encountered something different about the students in her classroom—many, if not most, of them were from India. This was a change from the students she…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Named to Future100 List in Metropolis Magazine

Friday, April 14, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

Chenhao Luo ’23 and Angelina Yihan Zhang ’23—both fifth-year bachelor of architecture degree students in the School of Architecture—have been selected for Metropolis magazine’s Future100, an elite group of architecture and interior architecture students from the United States and Canada….