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Whitman School MBA Team Wins $50,000 First-Place Prize in Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Competition
A team of Whitman School of Management students took first place over more than 500 teams from universities across the nation in the Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Competition, held at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in November. Whitman’s…
Shubha Ghosh Receives 2023-24 Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellowship
Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and director of the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute, has been awarded a 2023-24 Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity (WRKE) Fellowship. The WRKE Fellowship Program is a one-year fellowship designed to explore the…
Stress Less: Newhouse Student’s Mindfulness Book for Teens Is Rooted in Family Ties
The idea for a new book about mindfulness by Adam Avin ’26, a sophomore in the Newhouse School of Public Communications, is rooted in the days he spent with his great grandparents growing up in Florida. “Stress Less: Mindfulness for…
Talithia Williams to Serve as Featured Speaker for 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Talithia Williams, Ph.D., big data expert, math professor and host of “NOVA Wonders,” will serve as featured speaker at the 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 21, in the JMA Wireless Dome. This year’s…
Ryan St. Jean Named a 2024 Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow
Ryan St. Jean ’24, an international relations major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2024 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow. He is one of…
2023 Student Entrepreneur Impact Prize Winners Announced
Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) announced winners of the 2023 Impact Prize competition for social entrepreneurship held last month at Bird Library. Twenty-two student teams from Syracuse and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) pitched ideas for…
Give Back in 2024: Volunteer to Be a Book Buddy
Early literacy is paramount to a child’s future success, but recent research [PDF] from The Education Trust-New York shows the state is facing a “literacy crisis that has the potential to limit the future success of students, families, schools and…
Avoiding Holiday Drama: How to Navigate Family Conflict and Sensitive Topics
The holidays are normally a time for joy, togetherness, and maybe even a few awkward sweaters. But family gatherings can also be a breeding ground for conflict and sensitive conversations. From politics and religion to personal choices and long-held grudges,…
Tanya Williamson Named Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s New Assistant Vice President
Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Mary Grace Almandrez has announced the selection of Tanya Williamson as the inaugural assistant vice president in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Williamson, who currently serves as associate director of diversity, equity and…
Advocate and Friend: Falk College Remembers Professor Emeritus Alejandro Garcia
Alejandro Garcia, professor emeritus of social work in Falk College, died Nov. 17, 2023. He was 83. A professor of social work at Syracuse University since 1978, Garcia is known as an exceptionally generous and engaged colleague, teacher and scholar…