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Media, Law & Policy

Syracuse Law Welcomes Fulbright Students from Eurasia

Thursday, January 19, 2017, By News Staff

Jeyhun Haqverdiyev was inspired to come to the United States to pursue LL.M. studies while working with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2009. Haqverdiyev, a Fulbright student from Azerbaijan, had been working on a Rule of…

Media, Law & Policy

Refugee Work Motivates Maxwell Alumna in New Role as Empire State Fellow

Wednesday, January 18, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

While working for the non-governmental organization Refugees International from 2006-10, Camilla Campisi G’05 traveled on multiple missions to countries in Africa and Asia to meet with displaced people. Her focus was on assessing their situations and advocating for their protection…

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Disgraced’ to Play at Syracuse Stage

Friday, January 13, 2017, By News Staff

After the phenomenal success of “Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins,” Syracuse Stage switches gears and turns on a powerful and explosive drama as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Disgraced” opens on Jan. 27 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse…

Campus & Community

School of Education, Athletics, Driver’s Village Support Otto’s Reading Kickoff for Local Schools

Tuesday, January 3, 2017, By Jennifer Russo

Otto, the Syracuse mascot, doesn’t speak, so it may be difficult to assess how well Otto can read. But Otto clearly recognizes the value of reading, and a December 2016 visit to Ed Smith Elementary School in Syracuse thrilled the…

STEM

Discovery Improves Heat Transfer in Boiling

Tuesday, December 13, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

While the average person associates boiling with cooking dinner, the process is also widely used to transfer heat across surfaces. It is used in refrigerators, in industrial boilers and even on the international space station to reject heat from its…

Health & Society

Rock and a Hard Place

Tuesday, December 13, 2016, By Rob Enslin

When Brian Patterson heard the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was being delayed and possibly rerouted, he let out a whoop of joy. For him and thousands of others, particularly those at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the snow-covered Dakotas,…

Jennifer Karas Montez

Professor of Sociology and the Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies
Media, Law & Policy

CCJI Lauds Passage of Emmett Till Act in House

Thursday, December 8, 2016, By Scott McDowell

The House of Representatives passed S. 2854, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016, by voice vote during its evening session on Wednesday, Dec. 7. But unless further action is taken this week by the U.S….

Christian Science Monitor

Robert Thompson quoted by Christian Science Monitor Regarding Resurgence of Live Musicals on TV

Thursday, December 8, 2016, By Keith Kobland

“These are real classics,” he says of the shows chosen so far. “‘[The] Sound of Music,’ ‘The Wiz,’ ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Grease’ – these are not exactly experimental musicals. These are big mainstream hits that already have been pre-sold by their position in the culture.” said Thompson.

Campus & Community

OttoTHON Raises $112,000 for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital

Friday, December 2, 2016, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Nearly 1,000 students registered for the 12-hour marathon that benefits the hospital.