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Campus & Community

Inaugural Lender Faculty Symposium Highlights Social Justice #Hashtag Project

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The inaugural Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Symposium was held on Thursday, March 4, in a Zoom format. The symposium is the culmination of a two-year research project by the first Lender Faculty Fellow, Casarae Abdul-Ghani. Abdul-Ghani, who is…

Campus & Community

Highlight the Heroes Part 2: Staff Members Display Ingenuity, Determination, Teamwork in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, By Jen Plummer

As the novel coronavirus took hold in the United States and locally nearly a year ago, many members of the campus community had to reimagine countless processes, solve new and challenging problems, work together in ways previously unheard of, and…

Media, Law & Policy

Graduate Student Aims to Persuade Stakeholders of the Realities of Climate Change through Immersive Media

Monday, March 8, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Francesca Ortega ’20, G’22 wants to help neighbors in her native Miami experience what their neighborhood will look like when it is under water. The city, surrounded by water and built on layers of porous limestone, is already experiencing the…

Arts & Culture

Drama Department Listed as New York State’s Best College Theater Program by OnStage Blog

Monday, March 8, 2021, By Erica Blust

OnStage Blog has named Syracuse University and its Department of Drama as New York State’s best college theater program in its list of “The Best College Theatre Programs in Every State-2021 Edition.” According to OnStage Blog’s post, the list was “researched and…

Campus & Community

Stadium to Reopen to Fans Saturday, March 6

Thursday, March 4, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: There are very few things more uniquely Orange than attending an event at our iconic stadium. This is an experience many of us have been missing throughout the pandemic. For that reason, we are pleased…

Media, Law & Policy

‘Black Content Needs: Black Capital and Control?’

Thursday, March 4, 2021, By Lily Datz

J. Christopher Hamilton, assistant professor of television, radio and film in the Newhouse School, wrote an op-ed for LA Progressive titled “Black Content Needs: Black Capital and Control?” Hamilton, who is also an attorney and executive producer, has spent his…

Campus & Community

James Haywood Rolling Jr. Appointed Co-Director of Lender Center for Social Justice

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, By Matt Michael

James Haywood Rolling Jr. walked into the Museum of Modern Art in New York City wearing faded jeans, old sneakers and a backpack, just like the rest of his classmates from Cooper Union, a private college in the city. Rolling,…

Good Morning America

“Food prices steadily climb nearly 1 year into pandemic.”

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, By Lily Datz

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice and director of executive education in the Whitman School, was interviewed for the Good Morning America story “Food prices steadily climb nearly 1 year into pandemic.” Penfield says that prices of food will…

Campus & Community

Four School of Architecture Alumni Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently elevated member-architects, including four School of Architecture alumni, to its prestigious College of Fellows. Sherif W. Anis ’90 (B.Arch.), Jayesh Hariyani ’99 (M.Arch. II), Alice J. Raucher ’86 (M.Arch.) and Hilary M. Sample…

Media Tip Sheets

Amazon Union Efforts Part of Bigger Conversation of Racial, Economic Reckoning Facing US

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

Nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, AL are voting this month on whether they want to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. It could be the first Amazon warehouse union in the country. Lynne…