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History-Making Athlete, Social Activist Kathrine Switzer ’68, G’72 to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address at Syracuse University
As a 20-year-old Syracuse University junior in 1967, Switzer became the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston Marathon. That life-defining day inspired her to create greater opportunities for women in sports.
New Initiative Makes Downloading Safety Resources Easier
The Divisions of Campus Safety and Emergency Services and Enrollment and the Student Experience are piloting a new initiative to make storing all relevant campus safety information on student cell phones easier. Starting this month, students can use KeynectUp’s service…
Anish Shroff ’04 Named Speaker for AAPI Heritage Month Commemorative Lecture
The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) and Office of Program Development will welcome Anish Shroff ’04 as the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month commemorative lecturer. His talk will be titled “Ethnic Identity and the Power of Being Undefined.” Shroff will…
TEDx Syracuse University Announces Speakers for 2018 Conference
The student organizers at the TEDx Syracuse University conference have unveiled the speakers who will be presenting at the annual event this April. The team has always made it a point to select speakers from a variety of professions and locations,…
Educators Join Students in Push to Make Schools Equitable Spaces
On March 24, students and families of March for Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington D.C. as part of a national rally and movement to address mass school shootings. Julia White, an assistant professor at Syracuse…
Still Time to Take Part in RecycleMania
RecycleMania ends April 1, but that does not mean it is too late to help Syracuse University win the competition. The University is a single stream recycling campus—meaning all of your recyclables can be tossed in one recycling bin, or…
Constantly Calling News Fake Undercuts Fourth Estate, Says Syracuse Free Speech Expert
An expert on communications law and the First Amendment, Roy Gutterman is director of the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University. He says the trend of labeling factual news as fake news is an attempt to undercut,…
MSNBC Political Analyst/Host Joy-Ann Reid to Speak for University Lectures in April
In addition to her work on MSNBC, including hosting “AM Joy” Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon ET, Reid is a columnist for The Daily Beast and teaches the Newhouse School course Race, Gender and Media at SU’s Fisher Center in Manhattan.
How Monsters Help Make Movie Magic
The Shape of Water was named this year’s best picture during the Oscars ceremony. The international wire service Agence France-Presse talked to College of Visual and Performing Arts Professor Kendall Phillips about the cinema’s love affair with monster flicks, which helped…
Why Wakanda Matters Now, Q&As with Professors Kal Alston and Herb Ruffin
Based in the School of Education, Kal Alston is a professor of cultural foundations of education. Alston’s scholarly interests center on intersections of popular culture and media with American experiences of race, class and gender. She commented on the cultural…