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Campus & Community

Campus Community Invited to Join in Disability Pride Week Events April 18-23

Tuesday, April 12, 2022, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s inaugural Disability Pride Week will be April 18-23, 2022. The week includes a host of events and activities to celebrate and learn from people with disabilities and their lived experiences. Disability Pride Week is a campuswide initiative and…

NewsNation

“How Biden’s Ghost gun rules could affect your gun purchases”

Monday, April 11, 2022, By Lily Datz

Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the NewsNation story “How Biden’s Ghost gun rules could affect your gun purchases.” Reeher, who studies legislative politics, explained…

STEM

Bringing Science Back Home: Ph.D. Candidate Tiffany Hamm Works to Expand STEM Access

Monday, April 11, 2022, By News Staff

Tiffany Hamm, a fourth-year science education doctoral student, formerly taught earth science in her hometown of Bronx, New York. She chose the School of Education to pursue a Ph.D. because she wanted to do more in the field. Making science…

Veterans

Dwayne Murray Boomerangs Back to Syracuse as Incoming Deputy Director of OVMA

Monday, April 11, 2022, By Stephanie Salanger

When Dwayne Murray ’97 was about 7 years old, his grandmother bought him a Syracuse University sweatshirt from the Salvation Army. Born in Brooklyn and raised between the Bronx and White Plains, N.Y., Murray lived with his grandparents for his…

Media Tip Sheets

Former UN Special Prosecutor for International War Crimes Tribunal Releases New Report on War Crimes in Ukraine

Monday, April 11, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

Authored by David Crane, Syracuse University Distinguished Scholar in Residence, and Syracuse University College of Law students, a new white paper, “Russian War Crimes Against Ukraine. The Breach of International Humanitarian Law by the Russian Federation [PDF],” offers in-depth accounting…

STEM

‘Seeing Possibility For Myself’: SUSTAIN Program Continues to Cultivate, Support STEM Talent

Sunday, April 10, 2022, By News Staff

In 2017, John Tillotson, associate professor and department chair of the Department of Science Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), set out to improve upon the country’s retention rate of college science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors among underrepresented…

Media Tip Sheets

Schools Should Prioritize Desegregation, Consistent Policy and Better Social Services 

Saturday, April 9, 2022, By Daryl Lovell

Despite some improvements over the last decade, recent Census data shows that high percentages of American children are still living in communities with high concentrations of poverty. What sort of impact do these economic conditions have on the classroom? And…

Campus & Community

Dwight Caines ’87 of Universal Pictures to Keynote Newhouse Convocation Ceremony

Friday, April 8, 2022, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Dwight Caines ’87, president of domestic marketing for Universal Pictures, will deliver the keynote address at the Newhouse School’s 2022 Convocation Ceremony, to be held May 14 at 12:30 p.m. at the stadium. Caines is responsible for all areas of…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Receives STEM-Designation for Master’s in Professional Accounting Program

Friday, April 8, 2022, By Dawn McWilliams

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s master’s in professional accounting program has received STEM-designation. The class of 2022 will be the first to graduate with this new STEM certification. “We have made notable innovations to our master’s in professional…

STEM

Sophomore Emma Liptrap Named a 2022 NOAA-Hollings Scholar

Friday, April 8, 2022, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Emma Liptrap’s passion for environmental engineering began in a parking lot. In her junior year of high school, she set up a shadowing experience with a local engineering firm in her hometown of Salem, New Hampshire. Engineers brought her to…