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Business & Economy

New Paper Questions the Safety and Reward of Investing in Business Development Companies

Tuesday, February 2, 2021, By Robert Conrad

A new paper by Syracuse University Professor Joseph Warburton offers compelling new evidence of the risk of business development companies (BDCs). Warburton, who holds dual appointments as professor of law in the College of Law and professor of finance in…

Veterans

Application Cycle Now Open for the Tillman Scholar Program

Tuesday, February 2, 2021, By News Staff

The Pat Tillman Foundation (PTF) unites and empowers remarkable military service members, veterans and spouses as the next generation of public and private sector leaders committed to service beyond self. PTF has opened the application process for the Tillman Scholar…

Campus & Community

Faculty Invited to Enter a ‘Brave Space’ to Learn Tools for Facilitating Challenging Conversations

Tuesday, February 2, 2021, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

When Jeanine Irons attended an international conference a few years ago, a fellow participant asked her why the room was set up the way it was—with two seats in the front facing the audience. The woman told Irons that the…

Media, Law & Policy

‘The Crisis of Democracy: A Marshall Plan for the Biden Administration’

Monday, February 1, 2021, By Lily Datz

Danielle Taana Smith, professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, wrote an op-ed for LA Progressive titled “The Crisis of Democracy: A Marshall Plan for the…

Campus & Community

Save These Dates: Coming Back Together, Family Weekend and Orange Central 2021

Monday, February 1, 2021, By Kim Infanti

Following the release of Syracuse University’s 2021 football schedule, dates are now set for three signature weekends on the Syracuse University campus—Coming Back Together, Family Weekend and Orange Central. Coming Back Together, which celebrates African American and Latinx alumni, is…

Associated Press

“Search is on for new leaders in journalism’s upper echelons.” 

Sunday, January 31, 2021, By Lily Datz

Joel Kaplan, Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Studies and professor of magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Associated Press article “Search is on for new leaders in journalism’s upper echelons.” Kaplan, an expert…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents the 2021 Transmedia Photography Annual

Friday, January 29, 2021, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work has announced the 2021 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition of photographs by seniors from the art photography BFA program in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition will run through March 4…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Presents ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’

Friday, January 29, 2021, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage continues the 2020/2021 online on-demand season with the stunning documentary drama “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Anna Deavere Smith. “Twilight” will be available as video on demand Feb. 3-14 at syracusestage.org. Smith…

STEM

Celebrating 20 Years of Women in Science and Engineering

Friday, January 29, 2021, By News Staff

Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) is proudly celebrating more than 20 years of successfully serving female students and faculty in STEM at Syracuse University. Since its inception in 1999, the program was created with the vision of building a…

Media Tip Sheets

Reversal of Transgender Military Ban Is an Important Moment

Thursday, January 28, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

This month, Pres. Biden repealed a Trump-era ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military. “It is my conviction as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces that gender identity should not be a bar to military service,” read…