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The Breedlove Readers Book Club Gears Up for Spring 2023 Series
Applications are now open for the spring 2023 edition of The Breedlove Readers, a book club that encourages middle and high school girls throughout Central New York to celebrate black girl stories through reading, writing, and creating. The club is…
Grants Available for Scholarly Projects on Racial Wealth Gap
Grant funding is available to Syracuse University Ph.D. (or equivalent) scholars who have compelling projects that examine the issue of the racial wealth gap in the United States. The awards are part of a new social justice initiative and one…
Lender Center for Social Justice Granted $2.7M From MetLife Foundation for Research Initiatives to Help Address Racial Wealth Gap
Syracuse University’s Lender Center for Social Justice has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from MetLife Foundation to launch several new research initiatives to accelerate efforts to address the racial wealth gap and help dismantle the root causes of wealth…
Meet Ashia Aubourg ’18, a Food Justice Advocate Who Empowers Communities, on the ‘’Cuse Conversations’ Podcast
Ever since Ashia Aubourg ’18 was a child, she dreamed of one day working as a chef. Food was always the epicenter of her life, and from an early age, Aubourg would help her family in the kitchen, even whipping…
Lender Faculty Fellow Bhan Examining Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry
How do artificial intelligence weapons systems transform war and surveillance activities and accentuate the social and political vulnerabilities of humans to violence? That is the question Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public…
The Breedlove Readers Book Club Gears Up for Fall 2022 Series
The Breedlove Readers, a teen book club run by Courtney Mauldin, assistant professor of educational leadership in the School of Education, is getting ready to welcome its fourth cohort of middle and high school Black girls who are fans of…
Maxwell Faculty Experts Discuss Future Implications and Historical Context of Dobbs v. Jackson Ruling
In a panel discussion last week, faculty experts from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs shared expertise and insight on the recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturns the precedent set by Roe v. Wade…
Maxwell Professor Herrold Awarded Fulbright to Study Grassroots Community Change in Serbia
Increasingly around the world, citizens are tapping local resources and volunteerism to organize social change outside of established norms and institutions. The distinct ways people mobilize and sustain those initiatives are what Catherine Herrold will study with her recently announced…
New Law Scholarship Honors the Ongoing Legacy of the Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75
Syracuse University College of Law is pleased to announce the establishment of the Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75 Endowed Law Scholarship with a generous gift from Syracuse University Trustee and College of Law Board of Advisors Member Richard M. Alexander…
4 Years Unlike Anything Else: Reflecting on Life on the Syracuse University Campus
When the members of the Class of 2022 walked onto the Syracuse University campus in the fall of 2018, none of them could predict the unprecedented journey that awaited them over the next four years. An unknown, fast-spreading global health…