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5 Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants

Wednesday, December 21, 2022, By Diane Stirling

Five Syracuse University faculty members have won highly competitive awards from the New York State Council on the Arts—a record in the number of awards in a single year for Syracuse University in its 20 years of participation with the…

Campus & Community

Future TV Journalists Partner With Future Diplomats for Joint Exercise on Public Affairs

Tuesday, December 20, 2022, By News Staff

More than a dozen students from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs made a field trip to the television studios at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications this fall for a hands-on lesson in how to make…

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Rev. Phil Turner to Highlight Local Community as Speaker for 38th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Thursday, December 15, 2022, By Dara Harper

Reverend Phil Turner of Bethany Baptist Church in Syracuse will serve as featured speaker at the 38th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, in the JMA Wireless Dome at Syracuse University. This year’s…

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Community Folk Art Center Celebrates 50 Years of Community, Service and Collaboration with Award Ceremony and Ailey II Performance

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, By Cameron Kline

The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), a unit of the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, continued its 50th anniversary celebration recently by honoring its community and supporters and highlighting the creative arts with a…

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‘The Hard Work of Equity’: A Conversation With Principal and Ed.D. Candidate Moshiena Faircloth

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Martin Walls

Delaware Primary School Principal Moshiena Faircloth is exactly the type of student the Syracuse University’s educational leadership program wants to recruit, says George Theoharis, professor of educational leadership and inclusive elementary/early childhood education in the School of Education. “When this…

Media Tip Sheets

Britney Griner is Free, but did it take a “dance with the devil” to make it happen?

Thursday, December 8, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

Reporters looking for experts to discuss the issues around the release of WNBA star player Britney Griner from a Russian penal colony in exchange for a convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout, please see comments from Syracuse University professors. Brian Taylor,…

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EES Professor Recognized by the Geological Society of America

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

Christopher Scholz, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), is the recipient of the 2022 Israel C. Russell Award from the Geological Society of America’s (GSA’s) Limnogeology Division. Presented to only one researcher each year, the award recognizes outstanding research,…

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Light Work Presents Its 50th Anniversary Exhibition

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work has announced its “50th Anniversary Exhibition: Selections from the Light Work Collection.” Through a partnership with the iconic Everson Museum of Art, this expansive golden-year retrospective will be on view in two of the museum’s main gallery spaces…

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War Crimes in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Friday, December 2, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

Yesterday, U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emanuel Macron pledged to hold Russia accountable for “widely documented atrocities and war crimes” in Ukraine, the two leaders said in a statement issued after their White House meeting. (Reuters) Also this…

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Helping Ranchers Learn From the Wild

Monday, November 28, 2022, By News Staff

Tropical forests garner headlines as greenhouse gas storehouses. But wild grasslands are crucial, lesser-known candidates as climate heroes. Wild grasslands—from the African savanna to the North American prairie—have the potential to soak up vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the…