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AI Policy Expert Discusses Changing Regulatory Landscape
The landscape of AI regulation in the United States is undergoing significant changes, with President Donald Trump announcing a major new infrastructure investment and rescinding an existing executive order by former President Joe Biden focused on AI development. Hamid Ekbia is…
University Announces 2025 MLK Unsung Heroes
The 40th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Planning Committee is proud to announce the 2025 Unsung Hero Award winners: Andrea-Rose Oates ’26, James K. Duah-Agyeman G’99, Student Coalition on Race and Equity (SCORE), Laurence Segal and Jamie…
Maxwell School Professor Elected President of International Studies Association
Audie Klotz, professor of political science, has been elected president of the International Studies Association (ISA), one of the oldest and largest interdisciplinary associations dedicated to understanding international, transnational and global affairs. Founded in 1959, the ISA is comprised of…
Cultivating Engaged Citizens Through Reimagined Liberal Arts Framework
Rapid technological advancements such as the emergence of AI, entrenched environmental challenges and social injustice present today’s graduates with complex questions that will demand creative solutions. The liberal arts offerings through the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the…
D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families’ Ray Toenniessen Named 2025 Presidential Leadership Scholar
Ray Toenniessen ’06, a U.S. Army veteran and the newly appointed Deputy Executive Director of the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has been named one of 57 Scholars who will form the Presidential Leadership Scholars’ (PLS) 10th…
Linda Baguma, Alexandria Johnson Selected for Prestigious Rangel and Pickering Fellowships
A Syracuse University senior and an alumna were recently chosen for prestigious graduate fellowships that prepare students for careers in the Foreign Service. Linda Baguma ’25, an international relations and political science major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…
Bird Flu Transmission from Animals to People is Very ‘Worrisome’
The H5N1 virus – also known as bird flu – is being blamed for rising egg prices, the death of a Louisiana man and the infection of more than 60 workers that were in close contact with infected dairy cattle…
Maxwell Sociologist’s New Documentary Reveals Plight of Syracuse Tenants
A standing room audience gathered in the community room at the Salt City Market in the City of Syracuse on a recent evening for the first public screening of a new documentary film written and directed by Maxwell School sociologist…
Could Elon Musk Buying TikTok Reshape U.S.-China Relations?
Is China really considering Elon Musk to acquire TikTok? If so, one Syracuse University professor shared what he thought this could mean for U.S.-China relations. Dimitar Gueorguiev is an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of…
IDJC Launches Fellows Program for Thought Leaders in Journalism and Public Affairs
The Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship (IDJC) has launched the IDJC Visiting Fellows program, giving experts in the fields of journalism, politics and public affairs an opportunity to deeply explore topics of interest with the support of an academic…