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Two Syracuse Alumni Garner Oscar Nominations for Screenwriting
Aaron Sorkin ’83 H’12 received his third Oscar nomination for “Molly’s Game,” while Michael H. Weber ’00 was recognized as co-writer of “The Disaster Artist.”
Roy Gutterman Writes Op-Ed on Trump and Libel Laws
Newhouse Associate Professor and Director of the Tully Center for Free Speech Roy Gutterman recently wrote an opinion piece for the Post Standard regarding President Trump’s recent threat to “open up libel laws.” For Gutterman, a free-speech expert, this is…
Newhouse Journalists Work the Beat to Tell Personal Stories of Minority Police Officers
A group of eight journalism students from the Newhouse School spent the 2016-17 academic year examining a national issue with local implications: police-community relations.
Infrastructure and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships
David Van Slyke, Dean of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, is available to talk to media about public-private partnerships, a topic being discussed with the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan. Van Slyke is a leading international expert on public-private partnerships and public sector…
Political Science Expert Boroujerdi on Protests in Iran
Maxwell Political Science Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi recently wrote an opinion article for the New York Daily News regarding the recent Iran protests that have resulted in over 20 deaths. In it, he writes about credibility squandered, and how that now…
Society for New Music Premieres ‘Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage’ Jan. 21 at OnCenter
Opera about Lesser-Known Suffragist Has Strong Ties to University, Central New York
Making the Unthinkable Understandable: New Course Trains Students to Understand and Respond to Atrocities
Uncovering and communicating the truths about human conflict, human suffering and human rights violations is a complicated but vitally important task that often falls to those who write the “first rough draft of history”—that is, journalists operating on the front…
New Biography ‘A Swoony Valentine’ to Joni Mitchell
A review in The Nation magazine calls David Yaffe’s new biography about the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell “a swoony valentine to Mitchell, or at least to the effect that her music can have on the spirit.” Yaffe is unapologetic about…
Louis Kriesberg Discusses Proposed Tax Plan
For the Huffington Post, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Louis Kriesberg wrote an article entitled, “Instead Of Giving More Handouts To The Rich, We Should Tax Wealth.” In it, he discusses the potential new tax plan and the mark it will…
Inaugural Otey and Barbara Scruggs Graduate Scholars Named
The Maxwell School has named two graduate students as the inaugural Otey and Barbara Scruggs Graduate Scholars: John R. Barruzza, a Ph.D. candidate in the history department; and Chelsea M. Thomas, a student in the master of public administration (M.P.A.)…