Media, Law & Policy

In keeping with its strong traditions and in celebration of its 60th year of publication, Syracuse Law Review will host its annual Law Review Banquet on April 23 and honor Robert E. Dineen Jr. L’66 with its Law Review Alumni Achievement Award. Dineen is a retired partner from Shearman & Sterling in New York.

A team of three students from Hill Communications, a student-run public relations agency in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, recently placed first in Kohler’s Save Water America campaign competition.

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal prosecutors along the United States’ southwest border with Mexico—many already strained by the rise in their immigration caseloads—are facing a new challenge: how to handle a sharp jump in drug cases.

The Carnegie Legal Reporting Fellows will visit the Newhouse School Tuesday from 2-3 p.m. in Room 327 Newhouse III.

Twenty-six finalists in seven categories have been named in the fourth annual Mirror Awards competition for excellence in media industry reporting.

Donald W. Meinig, Maxwell Research Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University, is among the 229 leaders in the sciences, humanities and arts, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Three students in the Newhouse School are hoping to help close the education gap through their work with She’s the First, a nonprofit media campaign and network established to promote education for girls and young women in developing countries.

Syracuse University and the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School will host a special event with Emmy Award-winning writer, director and producer Bill Persky ’53 on Wednesday, May 5, in New York City.

A new documentary film, “An Inconvenient Tax,” will be screened for the first time in upstate New York at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University on Wednesday, April 28, at 4 pm in Maxwell Auditorium.

Law students are once again organizing the lively Ambulance Chase to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation^® of Central New York.