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Health & Society

Skepticism of Masks, Vaccinations Isn’t New: Ph.D. Candidate’s Research on 19th-Century Britain Provides Lessons for Today

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, By Brandon Dyer

Haejoo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is currently researching and writing her dissertation “Medical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” She is exploring 19th-century British anti-vaccination periodicals and pamphlets to examine the rhetoric. “When…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Alumna Mallie Prytherch G’19 Named as a 2021-22 Schwarzman Scholar

Monday, December 7, 2020, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Mallie Prytherch G’19, an alumna of the master of public administration program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was named today as a Schwarzman Scholar. She is Syracuse University’s second Schwarzman Scholar; the first, Kyle Rosenblum ’20,…

STEM

Syracuse University Faculty Provide COVID Vaccine Expertise

Monday, December 7, 2020, By Keith Kobland

Syracuse University faculty from a variety of disciplines can provide perspective regarding the anticipated availability of COVID fighting vaccines. Please contact Media Relations at media@syr.edu to connect with a faculty member for an interview. Faculty include: Brittany Kmush: Kmush is…

Campus & Community

Faculty Nominees Sought for Seinfeld Scholars Award Program

Friday, December 4, 2020, By News Staff

Nominations of outstanding faculty members are sought for the 2021 Seinfeld Scholars Awards Program. Faculty may be nominated by their respective dean, or by their associate dean, department chair or program director with the dean’s concurrence. Faculty cannot self-nominate. Each…

Campus & Community

COVID-19 Update: December Testing Hours | Mask Reminder | Sharing Thanks

Thursday, December 3, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: I hope you had a healthy and peaceful holiday break and wish you the very best during the final days of this semester. And while the fall academic semester has not yet come to…

STEM

What Was That Big Boom? Earth Sciences Professor Digs In

Thursday, December 3, 2020, By Daryl Lovell

Boom! Neighbors around Central New York reacted to an explosive sound on Wednesday afternoon, likely a sonic boom from a meteor that streaked across parts of New York, Maryland, Michigan, Ontario, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Suzanne Baldwin is the Thonis Professor…

Media, Law & Policy

Syracuse University, College of Law Sign Agreement with Uzbekistan Institutions to Assist Uzbek Disability Rights Capacity Building

Thursday, December 3, 2020, By News Staff

Syracuse University and the College of Law have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with three institutions from the Republic of Uzbekistan to strengthen academic ties with the republic, share expertise on disability rights and collaborate to create a disability…

Media, Law & Policy

Students, Faculty to Use Immersive Media to Explore the Complicated History—and Future—of Syracuse’s I-81

Thursday, December 3, 2020, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The construction of Interstate 81 in the 1960s cut through the city of Syracuse, leaving a wound that still pains the community five decades later. With newly secured funding from the Journalism 360 initiative, a team of Newhouse School students…

Media, Law & Policy

Syracuse Law Review and SUNY Upstate Hold Writing Contest on ‘COVID-19 Lessons Learned’

Wednesday, December 2, 2020, By Robert Conrad

Syracuse Law Review—an academic journal published by Syracuse University College of Law—and SUNY Upstate Medical University are holding a writing contest open to all graduate students of Syracuse University and SUNY Upstate Medical University. Graduate students are encouraged to write…

Business & Economy

Women in Leadership Initiative Announces Spring 2021 Programming

Tuesday, December 1, 2020, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

After kicking off in the fall of 2018, the Women in Leadership (WiL) initiative, created through the vision of Candace Campbell Jackson, senior vice president and chief of staff to Chancellor Kent Syverud, and a steering committee of women leaders,…