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Celebrating Earth Day and Earth Month in April

Monday, April 5, 2021, By Melissa Cadwell

Around the world, April is a month of celebrating and increasing awareness about climate change and the environment. The Sustainably Management team’s goal this year is to inspire the campus community to learn how they can participate in helping protect…

Campus & Community

United Way Mask Donation Helps Keep Central New Yorkers Safe

Friday, April 2, 2021, By News Staff

Staff from the United Way of Central New York and Otto the Orange visited the Westcott Community Center in Syracuse recently to make a special delivery of hundreds of protective face masks for local senior citizens participating in the Westcott…

Media Tip Sheets

Virginia Is First Southern State to Adopt Its Own Voting Rights Act

Thursday, April 1, 2021, By News Staff

According to Sara Swann at The Fulcrum, “Virginia is the first Southern state to adopt its own voting rights act: Almost eight years after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Virginia has…

Campus & Community

Maxwell School Ranks No. 1, With Five Specialties Rated in the Top Five

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, By Jennifer Congel

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs ranks No. 1 in the nation for public affairs according to the annual U.S. News & World Report reputational survey. The school also received high marks across a wide range of subspecialties…

PBS NewsHour

“Relative invisibility makes for uphill battle to get COVID vaccines for Americans with IDD”

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, By Lily Datz

Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the PBS NewsHour story “Relative invisibility makes for uphill battle to get COVID vaccines for Americans with IDD.” Landes, an expert on the sociology of disability, has…

Arts & Culture

Navigating an International Fellowship During a Global Pandemic

Monday, March 29, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

When Scott Manning Stevens was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, he assumed the virus would be over by the summer’s end and that he would have no problem traveling abroad to…

Campus & Community

Highlight the Heroes Part 3: Staff Members Display Ingenuity, Determination, Teamwork in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic

Thursday, March 25, 2021, By Jen Plummer

As the novel coronavirus took hold in the United States and locally over 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…

Campus & Community

Task Force Begins Work to Create EDAI Strategic Plan

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: We write to you today in our capacity as the leaders of the Equity, Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusion (EDAI) Strategic Planning Task Force. Our task force, composed of 31 members of our community, including students,…

Campus & Community

Graduate Dean’s Award Recipients Announced

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

Eight graduate students have been selected to receive the Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work. Award recipients represent a broad array of disciplines and were selected based on students’ outstanding accomplishments in research and creative work,…

Campus & Community

Professor David Bennett Reflects on the Role of Current Events Over 60 Years of Teaching

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, By News Staff

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence David Bennett grew up in Syracuse and graduated from Syracuse University with an undergraduate degree in 1956. “Then I went off to the University of Chicago, where I got my…