Search Results for: ,UGe
Potential Border Issues Could Have Huge Impact On Avocados From Mexico
President Trump has threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico doesn’t stop illegal immigrants from crossing immediately. Experts fear the potential shutdown would have major implications on trade, particularly produce items like avocados and berries. Rong Li is an…
Midterm Election Coverage Attracts Huge Audiences
Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Pop Culture in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the NBC News story “Audiences flock to midterms coverage as Fox News tops TV” and was a guest…
Former Iraq War Refugee, Entrepreneur to Speak on ‘Rewriting Tragedy: Empowering the Displaced’
The Nonfiction Reading Series of the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition is hosting a lecture and reading with Ahmed Badr on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 4-5:30 p.m. in 319 Sims Hall. Badr is an Iraq War refugee and…
914Works to Present ‘Transitional Refugee Housing’ Exhibition March 29-30
“Transitional Refugee Housing,” an exhibition by the environmental and interior design (EDI) program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design and the construction management program at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), is on…
Newhouse’s Annual Graphic Design Workshop to Support My Journey to Freedom Refugee Project
The fourth annual Pixels & Print Design Workshop, to be held Feb. 8-10 at the Newhouse School, will focus on the refugee experience in support of a new collaborative project, My Journey to Freedom. According to the United Nations High…
Thrive at SU, Interfaith Works Host Information Session on Refugees
Student organization Thrive at SU will host an information session on refugees and new Americans on Wednesday, Nov. 1, from 7-9 p.m. in Room 004 in the basement of Bird Library. The event, “Welcoming Refugees to Central New York: An…
Eugene ‘Gene’ Anderson Appointed Dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management
A results-driven, accomplished business education leader with a record of innovating new programs, increasing graduate student enrollment and building a diversely talented team of faculty will join Syracuse University as the new dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of…
Flight from Syria, New Life in the College of Law, Now Helping Fellow Refugees
Violette Khabbaz, silent, is listening to a conversation on a March afternoon. Sunlight pours through a window and illuminates her face as she leans across the counter of the Byblos Mediterranean Café, the restaurant she operates on North Clinton Street…
Refugee High School Students to Participate in ‘We Are Syracuse’ Event at School of Education March 1
The third annual “We Are Syracuse” event will be hosted on Wednesday, March 1, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m in the Sharon Jacquet Education Commons, Huntington Hall, on the Syracuse University Campus. Refugee students from Nottingham High School will come…
Professor Williams Banks discusses the refugee ban
William Banks, professor of law and director of Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, was interviewed by The Daily Beast for the story “Fact-Checking President Donald Trump on False Christian Refugee Stats.”